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| A Tesla Model S electric vehicle caught fire in Washington state on Tuesday morning, and the company said the car battery pack caught fire after the driver crashed into debris on the highway.
The driver told the police that he crashed into metal debris on the highway and then left. then, he said, the vehicle was on fire.
See the video here.
The well-known event could have affected Tesla's share price, which fell by 6.
Nasdaq traded 24% on Wednesday.
It fell another 4% on Thursday.
On January, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was grounded for more than three months after burning lithium on the plane. ion batteries. In an e-
Tesla spokesman Elizabeth Jarvis sent an email Wednesday.
Shean said the fire was caused by a direct impact of a large metal object on one of the 16 modules in the Model S battery pack. âx80x9dMs. Jarvis-
Shean added that because, according to the design, each module in the battery pack is isolated by a fire barrier to limit any potential damage, the fire in the battery pack is contained in a small part of the front of the vehicle.
An official from the fire department of Kent's fire department area said that the burning parts appeared to include a battery pack.
Firefighters said that shortly after they arrived, they thought the fire had been put out and the result was reignited under the vehicle.
Fire Department officer, Captain.
Kyle Ohashi said Wednesday that the battery pack was difficult to extinguish.
A video taken by a passer-by and posted on a website including Jalopnik shows that the front of the vehicle is covered with an orange flame at the end of the exit ramp.
This is a Tesla, dude, which claims a passenger is on a car that records a fire.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been monitoring fires in vehicles equipped with lithium batteries.
On January 2012, the agency released a report saying a Chevrolet Volt, which also uses lithium batteries, caught fire.
There was an accident at the security agency.
The Volt was tested in 2011 and then sat in the storage area on fire for a few weeks.
The agency was unable to replicate the fire and said "there is no real"
World crash data show Chevrolet Volt battery failure reported
Fire incidents caused immediately after the collision or long after the collision.
This year, the security agency gave a comprehensive score of 0 points for 2013 models, known as the overall vehicle safety score. 42.
This is the best score for any vehicle that the agency has tested under its new rating system that started applying to 2011 models.
This year, the consumer report magazine also said that the Model S scored more than "all other cars" in our test rating ".
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