[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by MartinSE

So, you say a company making a car that is designed to be exposed to the elements, that will drive through flooded roads, and rain storms and one almost daily, where the water is splashed at serious velocities under the car, off the wheels and basically pressure washes the bottom of the car, will have overlooked the possibility that the batteries made of materials that do a bad thing when they get wet would not have taken that into account.

Who is it that sees what they want to see? If you don't like today's EVs (evidenced by numerous posts), is it not possible you are also looking for what you want to see?

EVs get carboned daily on the roads, charging stations get ICEd daily, almost daily, and certainly weekly videos from Teska security shows people keying the cars.

And you lightly dismiss that maybe someone was angry enough to sabotage a Tesla. Much more likely in your mind that a company selling millions of EVs overlooked that they shouldn't get the batteries wet... The liability there is phenomenal; in a litigious society as we live in, that one fire could cost Telsa billions in litigation if it is proven they were negligent.

But the chances of an ICEr getting away with damaging a car left out in a hurricane and almost 100%.

Perhaps the anti rust coating only last so long and than water get to places that will cause rust and a fire