Tesla busts the myth of common electric car fires

[Redaktion]

Self-combusting batteries on Teslas and other electric cars are very hard to put out with regular firefighting methods and demand much longer dousing with water than usual. These are not common incidents, though.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-busts-the-myth-of-common-electric-car-fires.841329.0.html

[David Radzieta]

Tesla propaganda.  If it were any other company they would have been ordered to recall and replace all the dangerous NCA batteries.  As of 2018 40 in 300k caught fire.  That's horrendous. That's 1 in every 7500 Tesla had already caught fire in America.  That's just the reported fires.

Tesla 40 fires before the Model 3 rampup

Tesla claims that gasoline powered cars are about 11 times more likely to catch fire than a Tesla. It says the best comparison is fires per 1 billion miles driven. It says the 300,000 [nearly brand new] Teslas on the road have been driven a total of 7.5 billion miles, and about 40 fires have been reported. That works out to five fires for every billion miles traveled, compared to a rate of 55 fires per billion miles traveled in [20 to 50 year old] gasoline cars.

money.cnn.com/2018/05/17/news/companies/electric-car-fire-risk/index.html

Stop spreading Tesla propaganda intentionally misleading consumers.