Posted on 11/08/2013 6:49:40 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Another Tesla Model S involved in a traffic crash caught fire near Smyrna, Tenn., on Wednesday after an apparent strike by road debris — the third such report in six weeks. As with the previous two cases, the news sparked a reaction from investors, who sent Tesla shares plunging, and Tesla itself, which said no one was injured and that it was investigating the cause. But this latest incident does raise a troubling comparison for Tesla's 19,000 Model S owners: Even though it has fewer electric cars on the road than its competitors, none have reported similar fires after crashes. And while liquid-fueled vehicles suffer about 170,000 such fires every year, federal data show they take place in only 0.1 percent of all crashes. "To have one instance of fire from road debris is a fluke," said Clarence Ditlow, director of the Washington-based Center for Auto Safety. "To have two road debris fires in a vehicle population that small is highly unusual."
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Money to burn.
Great car. $100,000 and it burns. Just a great image of the Clown Prince nobama administration.
you are right...stock price to burn
always love it when management ignores the warnings from their engineers and plows ahead anyway....kind of like Ocare and its ‘web site’
Electric cars...the wave of the future. Stuck in Burnt Scrotum, Arizona with my Telsa Bon Fire 2000.
Musk still has SpaceX...
This is not the $100k roadster. $60~80k for the S sedan.
Base $62K
Optioned out $100K
This car is making the Volt look good.
OK. $60,000-$80,000 and it burns. What a wonderful car bargain.
I don’t see options to get that high, but I admit if you pick every thing that cost the most money, you get close.
Well, how about an option to NOT burst into flames?
The performance model base is $82,400
If you select all the option boxes and click cash instead of finance, you’ll get $119,220.
Yep. Been there, gave the warning, and the inevitable happened. Got reamed out for my trouble.
That option pushes it well over the $100,000.00 price point...maybe they could throw in a free Volt while waiting for your replacement Tesla after the burn-down.
So they’ve made and sold over 18,000 of these cars since they first rolled out last June and now after 15 months of no fires there are three in six weeks?
Did Musk not make the proper campaign contributions?
I only racked up $96k, but I’ll take your word for it. I trust that I missed some. Even with what I found, it is not misleading to call it at $100k car. I suspect many, but not necessarily most, of the owners spend close to that.
I was wrong. Thanks for the info.
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