https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/26/2...damage-battery


thank god the world isnt getting hotter or we could expect a predictable rise in frequency and damage.

you know, there used to be a car with an engine crankcase made of magnesium alloy. as we all learned in 10th grade, magnesium is extraordinarily flammable, and it seems like it would be a terrible material to make car parts from. it turns out that the car was extraordinarily flammable, in that it didn't necessarily catch on fire more often than any other car, but if the engine did catch fire it was pretty much impossible to put it out and the car and anything around it would burn to the ground. that car was the volkswagen beetle, they made a fucking billion of them, some of them burned up for no good reason, and it wasn't really a big deal in the grand scheme of things.