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Reports out of Norway are indicating a 2014 Tesla Model Southward caught fire while charging upwardly at a supercharger station. An NRK report said (via Google Translate) that no one was in the car when it caught burn down, and that the burn down occurred sometime after the owner of the car set the auto up for charging and left. The police force are currently investigating the blaze, the report said, and and then far there's no caption as to why the car caught fire.

Y'all can't put out an electric vehicle fire with water, as water reacts with the lithium and tin can actually make things worse. So the fire department in Norway had to seal off the area and spray the car with a special foam.

In response to the incident, Tesla told NRK that the company volition exercise extensive research in an attempt to find out what acquired the blaze, and emphasized that it's not dangerous to utilise its quick-charging stations anywhere on the globe, including in Norway. The supercharger station in question is the only one known to exist along the E18 Aust-Agder, so now Tesla owners in that location will take to travel a bit farther to find the nearest station for charging.

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Previous Model S fires take been attributed to a puncture in the chassis and the battery dorsum, which caused Tesla to and so reinforce every single Model Due south with a titanium underbody shield, as well as event a firmware update to enhance the machine slightly while it travels at higher speeds.

Any car burn down is disturbing, but for some reason when it involves the Tesla Model S, people tend to freak out — which is why we urge circumspection here. Certain, the Model S lacks the usual reason for car fires, which is gasoline. It's also tempting to worry virtually the massive lithium ion battery pack underneath the car for the reasons noted above, and there aren't *that* many of these cars on the road withal. At the same time, all kinds of things can crusade a auto to catch fire, and while it may seem similar the Model S is prone to them, we only know of four bodily fires (this new one, the original battery puncture, a tertiary that crashed into a tow hitch, and a fourth found unattended in a garage), despite tens of thousands of these cars on the route.

Finally, putting aside the fire for a moment, in that location's besides some skilful news for Tesla as well: It announced that it delivered 17,192 Model S vehicles in Q4, setting a delivery tape for the company, along with the kickoff 208 Model Xes. Tesla also shipped 50,580 cars in 2015, the first time the visitor has crossed the 50,000 mark in a single year.