Tesla Blames Recent Model S Fire On An Incorrectly Repaired Crash 2 Months Earlier

Tesla has been under scrutiny before over several instances of vehicles catching on fire. The media made a big deal out of it despite the fact that almost every instance happened after a high-speed accident. Statistics showed that Tesla’s vehicles caught fire significantly less often than the national average and NHTSA eventually conducted an investigation and found no problem.

But on other (rarer) occasions, Tesla’s vehicles caught fire without being involved in an impact, like a Model S catching on fire during a test drive event in France and another one in Norway burned down while Supercharging.

We now learn of another fire that is somewhat in-between the two types of fires.

MDarringer - 4/3/2017 7:44:57 PM

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Tesla has an excuse for EVERYTHING.

runninglogan1 - 4/4/2017 4:04:55 AM

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Tesla is worth more than Ford. No excuses needed.

mre30 - 4/4/2017 8:53:36 AM

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Financial costs aside - a more practical question - if your Tesla torches in your driveway, how do you get the pile of toxic waste that is left behind by the fire cleaned up and out of your driveway? Do you need to call in a special haz-mat crew? Can your kids every play in the driveway again?

What a toxic mess!

vdiv - 4/4/2017 12:39:54 PM

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Why is it a "toxic mess"? What makes it more "toxic" than any other car fire? The battery didn't burn.

7msynthetic - 4/4/2017 6:36:32 PM

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So if no one can reliably fix your duracell consider it the king of depreciating machines in due time.