[SystemSafety] Parked Tesla catching fire

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

There have been at least 14 instances of Tesla cars catching fire since 2013, according to this
article
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/22/tesla-investigates-video-of-model-s-car-exploding
, mostly after accidents. This is unusual in that it apparently happened to a parked car which had
not been overtly damaged, if the video is veridical.

Tesla says its rate of fires is an order of magnitude lower than with combustion engines (from the
article).

Tesla has a battery technology which uses very many well-isolated cells in order to avoid the known
problems with thermal runaway in Li-ion batteries.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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