Edhat Staff
By the edhat staff
A Tesla was found submerged in the ocean off the coast of Carpinteria.
John Palminteri reports the electric vehicle was discovered around 8:00 a.m. Monday. Firefighters searched the vehicle and surrounding area but no one was found.
The owner has been contacted by authorities to remove their vehicle but it’s still unclear why they drove onto the sand before the tide came in.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.
A Tesla was found floating in the ocean off Carpinteria this morning about 8 a.m. Firefighters searched the car along with the surrounding area, but no one was found. The Santa Barbara Co. Sheriff’s Dept. is investigating. (photos: Carpinteria fire, Robin Karlsson, Bill Ehrgott) pic.twitter.com/X1CAmcdL4V
— John Palminteri (@JohnPalminteri) October 31, 2022
It probably had FSD and committed suicide in embarrassment for Musk’s Twitter behavior.
It is sinking just like Tesla stock.
Sounds like you think it is a buy.
Tesla and Lucid are good places to park some hay
The car appears to be floating/bobbling in the photo….not sinking. Speaking of Tesla’s sinking stock, we bought 100 shares in early 2017. Three years later the stock split 5-fo-1 (100 x 5 = 500 shares). This past August it split again 3-fot-1 (500 x 3 = 1500 shares). Sinking stock? Only if you joined the game after 2020….or something like that. Of course stock, like any other investment, isn’t worth a thing until you sell it
As we learned in the aftermath of hurricane Ian, the lithium batteries used in Tesla’s tend to go up in flames when exposed to seawater. Better be careful with this car.
Electric batteries polluting our ocean – where are the protesters?
What an inconsiderate and environmentally damaging thing to do.
Below is a great article outlining some of the environmental impacts of EVs. Some highlights:
Building an EV requires 6 times the mineral input needed for a conventional car according to the IEA.
Only 5% of EV batteries are recycled compared with 90% of batteries used in conventional cars.
The nickel required for making EV batteries is sourced from rainforests in Indonesia using the horizontal surface mining process (deforestation and destruction).
Lithium extraction in South America uses 500,000 gallons of water per ton of refined lithium leading to ground water depletion and soil contamination.
Cobalt is mined in the DRC and thousands of children work in the mines despite the potentially fatal effects of long term exposure.
https://www.greencars.com/greencars-101/environmental-impact-of-ev-batteries
Sac, I think it is important to consider the radioactive waste associated with EVs. Unlike the radioactive waste associated with nuclear power generation which consists of a very small amount of material that is safely contained, the radioactive uranium waste caused by cobalt mining for EV production goes directly into the environment.
“ The environmental costs of cobalt mining activities are also substantial. Southern regions of the DRC are not only home to cobalt and copper, but also large amounts of uranium. In mining regions, scientists have made note of high radioactivity levels. In addition, mineral mining, similar to other industrial mining efforts, often produces pollution that leaches into neighbouring rivers and water sources. Dust from pulverised rock is known to cause breathing problems for local communities as well.”
https://earth.org/cobalt-mining/
106 – Ignoring, of course, that the environmental impacts of EVs essentially reduce to zero after they are produced if you have renewables for electricity generation, whereas the environmental damages caused by petroleum fueled vehicles continue through their entire lifetime.
And for decades after, given that the CO2 they belch out remains in the atmosphere, contributing to the radiative forcing that is warming the planet to disastrous levels.
Radon gas is dangerous and people who live in areas like summerland where there is known to be a significant issue with it actually have to maintain radon gas detectors in their homes. Over 20,000 people die every year from ling cancer attributed to radon gas exposure. Exposure to radon gas is harmful!
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/what-radon-gas-it-dangerous
On the other hand, everyone exhales CO2 when they breathe and exposure to CO2 short of suffocation is harmless. CO2 does not cause cancer.
“On the other hand, everyone exhales CO2 when they breathe and exposure to CO2 short of suffocation is harmless. CO2 does not cause cancer.” – so excess CO2 in our atmosphere should be fine, no problem at all, eh CHIP? LOL you guys are hilarious. “CO2 is fine.” “COVID vaccines increase risk of infection.” “Trump tried to stop Jan 6” Oh man….. so many gems!
The irony of it all is that the gang of reality deniers here don’t even realize how amusing their constant spewings really are, although they are only funny until you realize how dangerous some of them are.
True, but likely less damaging than a gasoline engine with all sorts of fluids
The lithium battery in a Tesla contains far more toxic chemicals than any of the fluids in a conventional vehicle. We can only hope it stayed intact and nothing leached out into the sea water. We will need to ramp up plans to store/sequester all these EV batteries because there is a massive wave of dead batteries coming in the years ahead and we will need to figure out what to do with them.
LOL. There is a pretty straightforward second life for decommissioned EV vehicle batteries. You’re acting like they are radioactive nuclear waste. “Sequester”. LOL
ALEX – well, don’t forget “radioactive nuclear waste” is actually 100% green and less harmful to the environment than wind turbine blades or solar panels…..
Chip, is this you backing off of your ridiculous claim that we need to somehow “sequester” used EV batteries with the implications that they are so toxic they can’t be stored safely or recycled?
Is that what you are trying to do here?
Let’s start with your laughable claim and then have a real conversation.
HA Ha ha!! What a fool the owner is. Can you imagine wasting money/a car like that?! I assume she’ll be charged for retrieval as a boat owner is.
I say “she” because I read this on noozhawk:
“Deputies then checked with the registered owner to make sure the electric vehicle had not been stolen. It was not, she said. “The owner drove onto the sand, and then the tide came in,” Zick said. “The situation went from bad to worse.” It’s unclear why the vehicle’s owner, who was not identified, decided to drive onto the shoreline, which is not legal. “We advised the owner, you need to get your car out of the ocean,” Zick said.”
But condolences if mental illness led her to destroy this car.
“The owner drove onto the sand, and then the tide came in,”.
“Siri, search for tide chart.”
Driver dozed off using auto pilot. Car had a desire to see the waves up close.
She could have just deleted her Twitter account…..