Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math

cartechboy writes "There are about 150,000 vehicle fires reported every year in the U.S. — about 17 every hour, on average. But when that vehicle fire is a Tesla, the Internet notices. There have now been three fires among roughly 20,000 Tesla Model S electric cars on the road so far. The stock is down, the Feds are asking questions and the Internet is swimming in Tesla news. It may be time to check the facts and review some math (hint: we're looking at roughly one fire for every 33 million miles driven so far) and then breathe. Then look at what we know, what we don't know, and what we should know."

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TFA is a Tesla PR piece

[Taco Cowboy]

" There are about 150,000 vehicle fires reported every year in the U.S. â" about 17 every hour, on average. But when that vehicle fire is a Tesla, the Internet notices "

What is the real intention behind the above quote?

Was the author getting any financial supprt from the Tesla car company ?

The piece is nothing but a naked attempt in fraudulently abusing the statistics to make Tesla cars look better than they really are.

True, there are over one hundreds thousand car fires per year, and that shouldn't even be any surprise, for they carry HIGHLY COMBUSTIBLE HYDRO-CARBON FUEL, - such as gasoline or diesel, - in them !

On the other hand, Tesla cars, being electrically powered, do NOT need gasoline, or do they??

Comparing the big number of hydrocarbon-powered vehicles which caught fire with the 3 cases of Tesla cars is, to put it very mildly, totally misleading !!