Lug nuts roasting on an open fire...........
Posted on 12/19/2013 9:14:24 AM PST by NormsRevenge
(Reuters) - A fire department in Southern California said a garage fire may have been caused by an overheated charging system in a Tesla Model S sedan, in the latest link between the top selling electric car and the potential for fire.
While Tesla Motors Inc maintains that the fire was not related to the car or its charging system, the Orange County Fire Authority said the Tesla-supplied charging system or the connection at the electricity panel on the wall of the garage of a single-family home could have caused the fire.
"The fire occurred as a result of an electrical failure in the charging system for an electric vehicle," said a report by the fire authority, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
The report also emphasizes that the cause of the fire is unclear.
"The most probable cause of this fire is a high resistance connection at the wall socket or the Universal Mobile Connector from the Tesla charging system" which was plugged into a 240-volt wall socket, the report said.
The fire occurred on November 15 in Irvine, California. The possible link between the fire and the Tesla Model S was not reported previously.
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Ya takes your chances.
The car was not hurt, this appears to be more isolated to a cabling/connection malfunction uhh anomaly.
Lug nuts roasting on an open fire...........
As if vehicle fires never occur in standard gasoline powered internal combustion engine vehicles..
lol
This is kind of karma coming back at Elon Musk. When the 787 had battery problems, he piled on but when his cars have fire issues, it’s a different story.
I thought I saw a model S last night. I’m very surprised they were able to actually produce these things considering they started from scratch unlike the roadster which was based on a Lotus
Could Tunguska have been an alien spacecraft explosion caused by a civilization that was ‘going green’?.............
Your rendition of that song is a hoot.
Thanks.
Nat King COAL is my inspiration...............
Way off topic. But before I forget, have you seen the article in the UK Daily Mail about the new fad of snakes with hats fotos? Saw it and thought, what’s that FR snake lady’s nick?
Resume regular browsing.
Thanks. I hadn’t realized how truly dangerous those electrics have become. Snicker...
And the sensibility of smoke detectors mandated throughout the home and excluding the garage is driven home.</sarc>
State-by-State Residential Smoke Alarm Requirements
Garage is mentioned only twice in the 100-page FEMA/USFA document above. I've always thought that moronic (installed my own, connected to security system). Fair notice: Not a tesla fan, but not faulting the car here. The tenants are probably lucky to have been in newer campus housing construction, as a garage fire in an older structure would have taken the building, and the car, with it.
Ya know that new building codes in some communities will be requiring mandatory built-in recharging systems in new housing at the cost or expense of buyer.. no subsidy there..
re: smoke detectors in garages..
Not mandatory .. yet.. that I now of..
the way things are going and depending the quality of equipment now residing there as part of the green revolution.
one may well be in order there too..
One of my recurring, anxiety-provoking nightmares is one where a deadly design flaw is traced directly to me. Believe me, when the heat’s on, upper management will pinpoint the “responsible engineer” and enthusiastically throw him under the bus.
Tesla Motors fights back hard against report of possible Model S-related garage fire
Headlines about the Model S fires have infuriated CEO Elon Musk, who took to Twitter to blast the news coverage.”Why does a Tesla fire w no injury get more media headlines than 100,000 gas car fires that kill 100s of people per year?” Musk asked in one tweet last month.
Following the report of the garage fire, Tesla released a lengthy statement saying the company had investigated the fire and that neither the Model S nor the charging system was not to blame.
“Based on our inspection of the site, the car and the logs, we know that this was absolutely not the car, the battery or the charge electronics,” the company said. “There was a fire at the wall socket where the Model S was plugged in, but the car itself was not part of the fire. The cable was fine on the vehicle side; the damage was on the wall side.
Tesla also said that a review of the car’s logs “showed that the battery had been charging normally, and there were no fluctuations in temperature or malfunctions within the battery or the charge electronics.”
The company called the Reuters report “misleading,” adding: “It appears that their objective was simply to find some way to put the words ‘fire’ and ‘Tesla’ in the same headline. The journalists and editors who created the story have patently ignored hundreds of deaths and thousands of serious injuries unequivocally caused by gasoline car fires, instead choosing to write about a garage fire where there were no injuries and the cause was clearly not the car.”
Reuters could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Maybe Elon mUsk will appreciate how the TEA Party feeels now..
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