Sometimes I wonder if these are submarine articles paid for by companies who want Tesla to fail. And it might be working... Musk seems a moment away from snapping completely.
We need statistics on this rather than a single instances to draw any conclusion that this is more prevalnet with telsa than other cars.
Otherwise it is just a rhetorical war between telsa long and shorts.
I have a suspiction that he will continue driving a Tesla.
U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage.
I'm a firefighter for my county that includes ~ 30mi of interstate along a national corridor. DOT has estimated 11,000 vehicles pass through our county each day on this corridor.
Sure it's an anecdote but your comments here seem to believe this is impossible or incredibly uncommon with ICE vehicles. It's not. Watch along the freeway for burned sections at the edge, with the scorch marks being about the size of a car. The reason you don't hear about it is it's not news when an ICE car burns to the ground, since it happens so often. It's news when a Tesla burns because people want a reason to be scared of something new and flashy.
https://jalopnik.com/5937499/the-jalopnik-guide-to-burning-s...
Both electric and internal combustion vehicles have failure modes that involve fire.
Basically, a Lambo is what Elon would market as a flamethrower :D
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I realize many of these are not really the same thing (there’s a lot of arson) but the basic point stands.
Edit: wow, voted down to -1 for answering the question and providing the source. Nice going, folks.
