Tesla Sends Team To China Instead Of Mars To Investigate Model S EXPLOSION.

Tesla Sends Team To China Instead Of Mars To Investigate Model S EXPLOSION.

US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. said it has sent a team to investigate a video on Chinese social media that showed a parked Tesla Model S exploding, the latest in a string of fire incidents involving its cars.

The video, time-stamped Sunday evening and widely shared on China’s Twitter-like Weibo, shows the parked EV emit smoke and burst into flames seconds later. A video purportedly of the aftermath showed a line of three cars destroyed.

No one can verify the video is real but view for yourself.


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TomMTomM - 4/22/2019 4:58:55 PM
+2 Boost
WHy would MARS send a team to China to investigate a vehicle explosion?

THey make candy.


scenicbyway12scenicbyway12 - 4/22/2019 5:09:51 PM
0 Boost
How is this possible car news?


mre30mre30 - 4/22/2019 5:15:58 PM
+9 Boost
When Tesla goes belly up, we will be dealing with the deteriorating and improperly junked Tesla's for the next 30 years which will be randomly exploding where they were last parked when they last functioned as vehicles.

Yes, the batteries should all be removed when they are junked. But if Tesla is liquidated and there are a bunch of customers with non-functional "orphan cars", they are going to be a whole bunch just abandoned.

Not that this exploding Model S was a "first generation" so it probably had a damaged battery case. IMO this will start occurring with increasing frequency.


LexSucksLexSucks - 4/22/2019 6:21:20 PM
-2 Boost
Fake X


PUGPROUDPUGPROUD - 4/22/2019 6:40:05 PM
+3 Boost
Thirteen Teslas have caught fire in last three years. Can you imagine the recall if this was GM or Ford who had this many.


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 4/23/2019 3:27:58 AM
-6 Boost
Um, you realize 17 cars catch on fire every hour in the US right?


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 4/23/2019 9:22:38 PM
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@PUG- I am sure Tesla would do a recall if Ferrari would. Burning exotic cars are common place, almost expected it would seem. But a burning Tesla brings out the detractors.


MDarringerMDarringer - 4/23/2019 9:51:19 PM
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@SanJoseDimit You're saying that because 17 cars catch on fire every hour in the USA that makes it OK for Teslas to burn to bits. You must have grown up "winning" those "you tried really really hard" trophies.


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 4/25/2019 1:58:08 AM
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/bmw-recalls-million-vehicles-fire-risk/story?id=50922136


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 4/22/2019 8:54:54 PM
-6 Boost
And with so many other BEV makers in China nobody would profit from this by planting an explosive in this Model S? Odd a fire would start in the trunk. But you never know. If it turns out the battery pack was pierced in the front by a rock or debris of some kind, it is hard to fault the car. If batteries have a downsize, this is it.


runninglogan1runninglogan1 - 4/23/2019 2:08:05 AM
-6 Boost
Looks staged.


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 4/23/2019 3:29:53 AM
-5 Boost
Who knows, it could have been TSLAQ shortsellars... but that sounds too conspiracy theoryish for me. Likely a pack damaged on Chinese roads that was never fixed.


MDarringerMDarringer - 4/23/2019 9:52:28 PM
+1 Boost
@SanJoseDimwit So you create a conspiracy theory that people are out to get Tesla? Is that the best that the geniuses at the PR meeting could come up with?


SanJoseDriverSanJoseDriver - 4/25/2019 2:00:10 AM
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I didn't create that theory, but I can tell you with $10 billion in shorts and TSLAQ folks trying to f with self-driving tests in the Bay Area there is a lot of incentive to take the company down. Tesla will only make more enemies when they launch their own insurance program next month.


skytopskytop - 4/23/2019 10:57:45 PM
+1 Boost
Teslas are 4 wheel cigarette lighters.


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