(Yeah I know this is a difference in the way a high-capacity battery stores potential energy vs. gas in a tank I don't care, though, "Does the car randomly explode for no apparent reason" is a basic QA threshold)
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It’s old and fixed, but there was a time:https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/automobiles/27FORD.html …
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In the 90s Ford had issues with bad ignition switches. Our close family friends had their Ford Explorer catch fire and melt like this outdoors, and thankfully it had rained before so nearby trees were wet enough to not catch. If it was indoors their house would have burneddown.
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As a firefighter I responded to more "car just sitting there catches fire" fires than you might expect. But Tesla, it seems to me, is a few standard deviations outside the norm.
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that's the quintessential tesla owner tweet "my car literally burst into flames for no discernable reason but they make good cars guys i swear"
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“I’ve tied a weirdly large amount of my personal identity up in this brand so I want you to know it’s still great despite the absolute worst thing happening!”
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My Pontiac had an electrical short, and caught fire in the carport under my apartment. But yeah...
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An anecdote: years ago my mom-in-law's new parked Chevy Astro just lit up and burned. Luckily, they parked it outside that evening instead of the garage below their house. The dealer replaced it, within a week. Period.
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I had a neighbor whose car just randomly caught fire while sitting in the garage, back in 2003. I think it was a Jetta. Detached garage, so no one was hurt and property damage was just the garage, not the house.
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I also have a friend whose car caught fire sitting in a parking lot (again, this wasn't an electric car -- I don't remember what kind of car it was) and back in the late 90s someone's car randomly caught fire sitting in a parking lot at the university where I worked.
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