A video circulating on Chinese social media shows a parked Tesla vehicle burst into flames.
By Hamza Shaban Hamza Shaban Technology reporter Email Bio Follow April 22 at 9:28 AM A video that has gone viral shows a #TeslaModelS parked in a garage starting to emit smoke before bursting into flames in Shanghai on Sunday, leaving 3 vehicles burnt out. Afterward, @Tesla issued a statement, saying it has dispatched a team to the scene. pic.twitter.com/I9J43NWtLm
The blast was captured in a widely shared video circulating on Chinese media and appears to be the latest incident in which a Tesla spontaneously combusts. In February, a Tesla driver in South Florida was killed after swerving through lanes of traffic and hitting a median and trees before the vehicle burst into flames. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the car’s battery reignited at least three times while the car was in the impound lot.
But experts say that battery fires can be harder to extinguish, because the heat builds up in the lithium ion battery systems that power electric vehicles.Sunday’s incident comes at a sensitive time for the company, which will report quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
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