Chapter 2354 Conquering Death Valley

On the dark blue cliff, there were thick clouds. From a distance, it looked like a raging sea.

But the wind in this place was not as refreshing as the seaside. It was as hot as steam.

As soon as Eberhard came out of the cool car, he felt as if he was in a steamer on fire. Up and down, left and right... Every place around him was radiating heat to him unscrupulously.

The sweat glands that were closed in the cool air of the air conditioner opened up all at once, and sweat immediately rushed out. From the car to the container truck in front, there were only a few cars in between, and the distance was at most more than 20 meters. His red T-shirt was already wet.

He opened the door of the cargo box with both hands and immediately entered a cool world again.

He took off his glasses and wiped them with his clothes. He saw several engineers busy around the Tesla in the car, which was disguised very tightly. When he came in, no one stopped his work.

The air conditioner in the car should be very strong, but beads of sweat can be clearly seen on the faces of those people.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"It will take about 20 minutes," one of the engineers said without looking up, and then shouted to his colleague next to him, "Coolant, check the coolant again..."

Eberhard watched for a while and felt that he was still in the way here, so he turned around, pushed the door and got out of the car, putting himself in the steamer again.

"What a hell of a place," he muttered, walked to a logistics support vehicle, took out a bottle of mineral water, "How much is it?" He asked a staff member next to him.

"The data 5 minutes ago was 105.8 (Fahrenheit, 41 degrees Celsius)," the man wiped the sweat off his face with a towel and said loudly, "The temperature in the future will not be lower than this,"

"105.8?" Eberhard's face became serious.

He glanced to the side and back. About 100 meters away from their temporary work site on the roadside, there were also several off-road vehicles parked. Next to the off-road vehicles, some guys wearing fisherman hats were getting up and down to ensure the normal operation of the camera next to them.

The camera was facing their direction.

"I hope their cars will have problems soon," said an employee squatting in a small shadow next to the car.

The guys next to him laughed at him, "If they keep turning on the air conditioner here, at least their radiator pipes will burst,"

"Haha, then they may have to ask us for help. When that happens, will we help or not?"...

Eberhard listened to the employees' laughter with his hands on his hips, without interrupting. Such a situation would definitely not happen. Since those cars could follow here, they were naturally prepared accordingly.

Because this is Death Valley.

Yes, this is the tourist attraction in California with a lot of mystery, Death Valley.

Unlike the name, this place is not gloomy at all. On the contrary, it is full of dazzling sunshine.

This valley is located in the southeast of California. It is nearly 230 kilometers long, with the narrowest part less than 10 kilometers and the widest part more than 25 kilometers.

There are more than 500 square kilometers of land below sea level, and the lowest place is 85 meters below sea level.

The three mountain ranges around Death Valley, including the Nevada Mountains, form a rain barrier, blocking the moisture brought by the sea breeze from the Pacific Ocean, so this is one of the driest areas on earth, with an average annual rainfall only slightly higher than that of the Sahara Desert.

The special geographical environment makes this place one of the driest and hottest areas in the world. From May to October every year, the mountains next to it are okay, but the roadside at the bottom of the valley is really hot and can kill people.

Because of this, this is also an ideal place for many car manufacturers to choose to test the high temperature resistance of new cars, and many of them are chosen in the hottest time of summer.

As we all know, for pure electric vehicles like Tesla, high temperature resistance test has more meanings, because lithium batteries will emit high temperatures during operation, so this is a point that must be visited during this road test.

I believe that many people are also paying attention to the results of this test. The cars over there are obviously from various media, which is the best proof.

Although the battery module has successfully undergone multiple extreme tests including fire, vibration, acceleration shock, and extrusion, Eberhard is still a little nervous at this time.

Model S is considered to have caught up with the tail of the hottest time in Death Valley. Who knows that the temperature in the past few days, so respectful to them, has not been lower than 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

He looked at the road ahead leading to the invisible end. The various road test cars on this road had accidents more than once before. Those accidents were of course spontaneous combustion.

I believe that many people are looking forward to their road test at this time. It would be best if such a situation also happened. Eberhard certainly does not want such a situation to happen, otherwise, he would not have rushed to the scene on purpose.

The battery sector of pure electric vehicles is unstable and prone to fire, which has been the main point in many previous articles attacking Tesla. If this time, no matter what the reason, as long as such a situation really occurs, Eberhard believes that it will definitely be an unprecedented setback, because no matter how you explain it, it will be useless.

And he also knew very well that if the Model S really caught fire, the result might be the ugliest, because it uses an all-aluminum body.

The all-aluminum body is good in every way, with light weight and excellent energy absorption performance... But the bad thing is that its melting point is generally 600 degrees, which is much lower than the 1200 degrees of iron and more than 1300 degrees of steel.

When the vehicle spontaneously ignites, it can easily reach about 700-800℃, which can completely melt the aluminum body... But in the end, there may not even be a frame left.

The phone rang, "Strau, yes, I'm here, the road test will start soon, well, I believe there will be no problems,"

He saw that several media cars over there started to move, and he looked back and saw that the car used for the road test was slowly driving down from the container along the track.

It's about to start!

The lazy crew members just now immediately got busy, and the media vehicles over there also kept shouting, "Hurry up!"

They hope to record the scene of Tesla's road test here throughout the whole process.

If you run too slowly, you will probably miss some very interesting and spectacular scenes.

Under the care of some people in the distance and the completely different expectations of the people present, the Model S roared a few times on the spot, and then in an instant, like lightning, it flew far away.

It actually came up with a rapid impact without reservation, and increased the power to the maximum right away.

"Yeah!" Eberhard applauded with the people around him, but his heart was lifted.

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More than 40 minutes later, the Model S, which everyone had placed too much expectation on, returned to the starting point with dust all the way. The two guys who came out of the cab opened the car door and tore off their clothes in a few seconds, shouting and throwing them into the sky, "Yeah!"

Suddenly, the employees who stayed here rushed up and surrounded them. Many people were so excited that they jumped and shouted. Finally, I don’t know who suggested it, and the two shirtless guys were lifted and thrown into the air by everyone.

"Although this is just the beginning and doesn't mean anything, I'll do it, I'll do it," Eberhard smiled and squeezed in. Together with the others, he caught the two people and threw them up high.

Beside the container truck, the engineers who had originally looked confident exchanged glances silently, "It's so hot, so hot," they all let out a long sigh.

The media cars that were left behind and just rushed back with the support vehicle captured such a joyful scene. Some of them were also very excited, while others had mixed emotions, "What's the big deal, it's just a trip,"

When Eberhard squeezed out of the crowd, he felt that his clothes were all wet. He then remembered to report to Feng Yiping and others, "Feng, the first phase of the road test in Death Valley was very successful. Our battery management system worked very well..."

Soon, this news spread rapidly with the media present. The title of one of the reports was, "Tesla, conquered Death Valley!"