Video Captures Moment A Toyota Prius Is Struck By Lightning

If Again to the Future taught us something, it was the unbelievable power carried by a lightning bolt. Nevertheless, when lightning hits a automobile in the true world, you do not time journey from 1955 to 1985. As an alternative, the immense quantity of electrical energy fries your car’s electronics. For an instance, watch this video.

The Youtuber who operates the channel Extra Pi chases tornadoes and covers excessive climate. Throughout a current outing, he was in the best place on the proper time (or flawed place on the flawed time, relying in your perspective) for a buddy to seize a lightning bolt putting his Toyota Prius.

The clip begins from inside Extra Pi‘s Prius. He is recording a powerful windstorm that is blowing the shingles off of a barn. He is maneuvering the car at low speeds when out of the blue there is a blue flash and a loud crack.

Extra Pi would not instantly notice what occurred. The automobile instantly shuts down, although. Even together with his Toyota damaged, one in every of Extra Pi’s first reactions is to consider the twister he is on the lookout for.

Extra Pi‘s buddy captures the most effective angle on the lightning bolt hitting the Prius. It strikes the antenna first, making a ball of flame. The digital camera additionally enables you to see the place the electrical energy is reaching the bottom.

After the strike, one of many cameras within the Prius stops recording video however retains getting audio. The digital camera dealing with rearward briefly glitches however retains going. The one pointing at Extra Pi would not have any points, although.

In an replace on this video’s YouTube description, Extra Pi says that the supplier needed to change the engine management module simply to diagnose the issue. The store discovered three extra ECUs additionally in want of substitute. To save cash, he will attempt to repair the automobile himself. Even then, he is unsure if the whole lot remains to be going to work.