A few days ago a Tesla Model S crash in Germany, on the A93 between Abensberg and Siegenburg, gave the local (volunteer) fire crew a chance to practice emergency recovery of a crashed electric car. What’s nice for the rest of us is they posted a writeup along with detailed pictures…
Another Tesla Model S – on fire Source: NBC Los Angeles Remember last year when we had three Tesla Model S car fires within a month? Two were from road debris skewering the battery pack, with the short circuit causing a car fire, while the third was a high speed…
Yesterday another Tesla Model S fire occurred on the heels of Tesla Motors’ Q3 2013 financial results which had disappointed Wall Street who sent the stock down 14% on Wednesday. News of the Model S fire came too late in the day to affect the stock on Wednesday, so it’s…
A couple weeks ago another Tesla Model S burned, this time following a wreck in Mexico. Some jumped to the conclusion that this proves electric cars are dangerous after all. Instead, the accident actually demonstrates how safe the Model S is, and that the driver of that car put it…
Another Tesla Model S has crashed and burned. Tesla’s stock price fell today when the news broke, closing at $162/share when in September (before the first fire) the price had reached almost to $195/share. The incident occurred in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) at 3 AM, to a car driven…
In Murfreesboro Tennessee yesterday a drunk woman crashed her Tesla Model S into a telephone pole. She told police she was “messing with the radio.” It was a clear day, hers was the only car in the crash, so I’m guessing a combination of inebriation and driver distraction caused the…
The NHTSA released a detailed report of the Chevy Volt crash test and forensic investigation last week prior to this weeks House Oversight committee hearing. On Wednesday this week the House Oversight Committee will take up the question, “Volt Vehicle Fire: What did NHTSA Know and When Did They Know…
The firestorm over the Chevy Volt battery pack fire is moving next week to a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the hearing is to feature Dan Akerson, GM’s CEO. In May 2011 a Chevy Volt underwent extreme crash testing by the NHTSA, and three weeks later…
Last week GM announced plans to fix the battery pack fire risk, over the weekend NHTSA says they approve of the fix. Last week GM unveiled plans for fixing the identified problem which caused the fire in a crash tested Chevy Volt last summer. In an interview over the weekend…
A market research company with a questionable history concerning the facts claims demand for the Volt has lowered, when sales figures show the opposite. According to several news reports currently circulating CNW Research claims the “federal investigation of three fires that occurred after Volt crash tests lowered demand for the…
