Porsche Panamera goes up in flames during battery charge

By The Nation

 

 

A Bt10-million Porsche Panamera caught fire while its battery was recharging in Bangkok’s Taling Chan district early Friday and the flames also damaged the owner’s luxury home.

 

Police and firefighters were summoned at 6.30am and arrived to find the sports car already engulfed and fire in the living room of the house.

 

After the blaze was extinguished, homeowner Natthawut Kritaya-ayanont estimated the damage to the living room and his home-theatre system at Bt6 million, while the car cost Bt10 million.

 

 

He said his mother bought the car last September. She’d taken it out Thursday evening to do errands and returned home at 10pm.

 

As per her routine, she plugged in the home battery-recharging kit and went to bed. Natthawut heard an explosion at 6am, when the family was still in bed.

 

They rushed downstairs to find the car on fire and the fire spreading.

 

Porsche encourages Panamera owners to frequently recharge the battery with the home kit provided because the car’s many electronic components use a lot of power.

 

The car was insured, Natthawut said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30341053

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-16

Oops

Sounds like they can bear the loss.

6 million Baht home theater

Nice red license plate on the 6 month old car.

I bet her battery charger was made in China.

8 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

Nice red license plate on the 6 month old car.

Typical for hi-so (or wannabes), there are some cars in my condo that are on red-plates for more than 2 years.

I drive a 1985 Nissan p/u ,paid 39000bt..probably 40 too much...'' burn baby burn''...

10 million baht and a broken heart. I'd cry if my brand new, red plated Porsche burned up like that! 

Ehm ...Red to Black, Black to Red...and Blue to ****

To me it looks like the car was damaged in the rear before it caught fire....

A brand new car that has to be plugged in at night - amazing German engineering!

19 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

A brand new car that has to be plugged in at night - amazing German engineering!

It's a plug-in hybrid with something like 500 HP total.

I had to look this up. The destroyed Porsche is likely the E-Hybrid, which requires recharging with a portable home kit. 

1 minute ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

I had to look this up. The destroyed Porsche is likely the E-Hybrid, which requires recharging with a portable home kit. 

A mate has one, a beast and a half of (as he describes it) a "sensible, 4 door family hybrid saloon". The hybrid is a whole million baht cheaper than the petrol-only version due to import tax reductions for hybrids.

 

I've sent him the link, and one to smoke detectors on Lazada.

 

Not excactly a "Green " car.  All that pollution while burning.  Up goes the pollution index in Bangkok. 

What does a red plate mean? 

9 minutes ago, Tapster said:

What does a red plate mean? 

Depends on the car and how important the driver thinks he/she is. ??

Means new, or in many cases if it's a high end super car that has been illegally imported and might be difficult to get a plate for.

Thanks 

13 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Depends on the car and how important the driver thinks he/she is. ??

Means new, or in many cases if it's a high end super car that has been illegally imported and might be difficult to get a plate for.

I was told that dealers don’t have to pay the tax on their sales until the proper plates replace the temporary red ones. So many drag their feet doing this to smooth their cash flow and massage the owner’s egos by prolonging the period everyone thinks they have a new car. Why they can’t pre-issue plates to dealers like in sensible countries, I don’t know, wait.......

20 hours ago, mok199 said:

I drive a 1985 Nissan p/u ,paid 39000bt..probably 40 too much...'' burn baby burn''...

Looks like the wheels are worth more than the rest of the car

5 minutes ago, Classic Ray said:

Why they can’t pre-issue plates to dealers like in sensible countries, I don’t know, wait.......

Actually, getting rid of the whole red-plate debacle was mooted last year. Nothing has come of it ...

16 minutes ago, Classic Ray said:

I was told that dealers don’t have to pay the tax on their sales until the proper plates replace the temporary red ones. So many drag their feet doing this to smooth their cash flow and massage the owner’s egos by prolonging the period everyone thinks they have a new car. Why they can’t pre-issue plates to dealers like in sensible countries, I don’t know, wait.......

Then again mate's Dad in UK years ago always had to have the new letter plate volvo in the driveway every year.

I brought a 68 Holby Hunter back from Germany in 77 and the BAOR plate was replaced with an S reg for that year. When he saw it he was speechless for a long time. ??

Looked like this one.

5 minutes ago, nahkit said:

Looks like the wheels are worth more than the rest of the car

I didn't realise there was a car there. Thought it was wheels stood against the rusty fence.

???

most likely the power socket wasn't up to spec to handle the load, there are a lot of fake power sockets

21 minutes ago, mike324 said:

most likely the power socket wasn't up to spec to handle the load, there are a lot of fake power sockets

I've had two of the ones that coil up inside the case ruined by the maid because very few people know you have uncoil 100% of it before use. Total melt down on one and the other was just catching fire before it blew the fuses.

'If' this type and it overheats in the company of H2 coming from battery etc, bang!!!!

Red plates ..... when I first moved to China foreign owned cars had black plates and Chinese owned had blue. Cars belonging to foreigners, joint-stock companies, foreign companies and diplomatic staff black with white writing. 

 

They’ve changed to blue w/white letters to all cars now. 

 

Problem with special  plates to show foreigners or in paid cash for car. 

You become a target. 

 

In China com artist would see black plates fake an accident to get 

money. The country figured it out.  

 

 

Funny story we were watching traffic from balcony in China. A Con tried 

this the police came..... and bitched slapped the Con and sent him on his way. 

 

 

What do do you do when a car hits you (walking) in China? Run!

I think they’ve got under better control now but some people said 

 

Mindset was you hit someone back up and run them over again to make sure their dead. Its was cheaper for death than long time for person with disability. 

 

Saw Law it happen to a baby once on news coverage. Very sad..

 

but now I’m living in Thailand and I don’t know the history but almost

positive Chinese taught them to drive 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

58 minutes ago, mike324 said:

most likely the power socket wasn't up to spec to handle the load, there are a lot of fake power sockets

It's a hard wired EV charging station, comes with the car and has Porsche branding, unlikely to be fake (but one never knows of course).

17 minutes ago, Crossy said:

It's a hard wired EV charging station, comes with the car and has Porsche branding, unlikely to be fake (but one never knows of course).

This?

If you don't uncoil the cables then, bang.

3 hours ago, nahkit said:

Looks like the wheels are worth more than the rest of the car

Pimp my ride... 

On 3/16/2018 at 2:06 PM, webfact said:

The car was insured

It should polish right out