Owner Filed Lawsuit After Tesla Took A Bullet To The Battery Pack And Went Up In Flames

Here’s a crazy Tesla story for you this Sunday: we just learned about the case of a Tesla vehicle fire in which the owner claimed his brand new Model S caught on fire on its own while he was driving it back home after taking delivery, but Tesla says that someone fired a bullet into the battery pack from the passenger cabin.

It happened back on December 31, 2014, but we are just learning about it after a lawsuit he filed against Tesla came to light (hat tip to Tim).

John Schneider from Pennsylvania took delivery of his Model S on the last day of 2014.

PUGPROUD - 12/17/2018 12:39:22 PM

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Another example of too many lawyers with too much time on their hands.

Car4life1 - 12/17/2018 1:07:57 PM

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Right perhaps the owner should be suing the passenger that shot the bullet in his car in the first place?!?WTF, I’m killing you if the exploding battery doesn’t LOL

dumpsty - 12/21/2018 11:20:55 AM

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First of all....who pealed a cap inside the new EV? Did the customer admit to "mistakenly" firing his weapon inside the car? If the customer had no weapon & is truly clueless about it, could that same vehicle been test driven by someone who did fire a round down into the floor?

Also, for any car that gets shot at....there's a potential risk of rupturing the fuel tank or some other risk damaging some other electrically-related system.