Tesla is all fired up.
Literally.
At a demo for media in Paris, a Model S went up in smoke. Caught fire, burned itself to a smoldering slag heap.
At a media event (see here). Where – one assumes – there were reporters on hand.
Not much reporting took place.
To find out about this auto da fe it was necessary to dig. It wasn’t brought to the attention of people.
This is curious.
I myself am a car journalist and have attended hundreds of media “reveals” and “ride and drives” for new cars. If at any of these, the new car being demo’d for us had erupted into flames right in front of us, like the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, it would have been a Hindenburg-esque PR nightmare for the car company that built the thing.
But Tesla gets away with building – and selling – cars that are prone to automatic ignition, so to speak. This fire in Paris is not the first Tesla fire. There have been several reported and probably many more not reported.
The fact that this has happened several times suggests a design defect.
