{"id":4788,"date":"2013-10-05T00:33:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2013-10-06T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T05:57:08","slug":"sci-tech-elon-musk-responds-to-tesla-model-s-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Elon Musk responds to Tesla Model S fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, a Tesla Motors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/models\" target=\"_blank\">Model S<\/a> vehicle caught on fire in Seattle on Thursday after striking metallic debris on the freeway:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2013\/10\/04\/elon-musk-tesla-fire\/2924423\/\" target=\"_d\">Elon Musk defends Tesla electric car after fire &#8211; USA Today [incl. video report]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the fire (see below) caused quite stir, as stockholders and analysts imagined Tesla might be entering a Boeing 787 battery fire-like crisis. The rave reviews and high rankings of the Model S have sent the stock price soaring in the past few months and this is the first significant negative news that the company has encountered recently.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a response from Elon Musk, he explains that the puncture led to a fire in a small section of the battery pack and it was isolated as planned by the firewall design. \u00a0Similar damage to a gasoline car could have created a much bigger conflagration :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/model-s-fire\" target=\"_d\">Model S Fire &#8211; \u00a0Tesla Motors Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0kjI08n4fg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, a Tesla Motors Model S vehicle caught on fire in Seattle on Thursday after striking metallic debris on the freeway:\u00a0Elon Musk defends Tesla electric car after fire &#8211; USA Today [incl. video report]. A video of the fire (see below) caused quite stir, as stockholders and analysts imagined Tesla might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Elon Musk responds to Tesla Model S fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1fe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12766,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12766","url_meta":{"origin":4788,"position":0},"title":"Paper modeling of Elon Musk and his Falcon 9 and Model S","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the paper models for both the Tesla Model S and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plus Elon Musk himself:\u00a0Tesla-S and Falcon 9 models\u00a0-\u00a0AXM Paper Space Scale Models Blog\u00a0-","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Models&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Models","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tesla, SpaceX Falcon 9, Musk paper models","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image7.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9527,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9527","url_meta":{"origin":4788,"position":1},"title":"Sci-Tech: Tesla Motors to offer range boost to Roadster [Update]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Elon Musk says that Tesla Motors will offer an upgrade to the Roadster, which is no longer in production, that will increase the range from around 240 miles (~385 km) to nearly 400 miles (~640 km) -\u00a0Elon Musk on Twitter: Roadster upgrade will enable non-stop travel from LA to SF\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science and Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10080,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10080","url_meta":{"origin":4788,"position":2},"title":"Sci-Tech: Pictures of the GigaFactory in construction","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some pictures via Steve Jurvetson\u00a0of the giant\u00a0Gigafactory\u00a0lithium battery manufacturing plant that Tesla Motors\u00a0and partners are building in Nevada. 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