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There’s been a lot of talk about Tesla’s Model S four-door sedan lately, and not because of its popularity in the US (and Europe more recently), but due to the three vehicles that caught fire over the past five weeks.
The fact that cars go up in flames is no longer a strange occurrence, but the media is all over the place when this happens to a Ferrari and, since last month, to a Tesla Model S. It’s like trying to find faults with the best all-electric car ever built.
The third and most recent Tesla fire occurred last week and it seems that the NHTSA is going to launch an investigation. The results are obviously still far off, as a format inquiry has yet to be announced, but there’s some interesting info to chew on until then straight from the owner of the Model S that burned in Tennessee a few days ago.
In a blog entry on Tesla’s website, Juris Shibayama tells how the vehicle was damaged by a “rusty three-pronged trailer hitch that was sticking up with the ball up in the air” and details how the Model S saved his life by advising him to pull over. Although the front end caught fire a couple of minutes after he got out, the owner says he “never felt as though I was in any imminent danger”.
He added the would buy another Model S “in a heartbeat” and seemed impressed by the fact that the flames didn’t reach the cabin, with him being able to get his papers out of the glove compartment after the firemen extinguished the fire. Head over to Tesla’s blog to read the full story.
The third and most recent Tesla fire occurred last week and it seems that the NHTSA is going to launch an investigation. The results are obviously still far off, as a format inquiry has yet to be announced, but there’s some interesting info to chew on until then straight from the owner of the Model S that burned in Tennessee a few days ago.
In a blog entry on Tesla’s website, Juris Shibayama tells how the vehicle was damaged by a “rusty three-pronged trailer hitch that was sticking up with the ball up in the air” and details how the Model S saved his life by advising him to pull over. Although the front end caught fire a couple of minutes after he got out, the owner says he “never felt as though I was in any imminent danger”.
He added the would buy another Model S “in a heartbeat” and seemed impressed by the fact that the flames didn’t reach the cabin, with him being able to get his papers out of the glove compartment after the firemen extinguished the fire. Head over to Tesla’s blog to read the full story.
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