The arena is all set up, the audience is excited, and the Tesla Model S starts its short run — hits a boulder, rolls over — a few seconds go by and flames start to erupt from the vehicle’s floor, where the battery pack is installed.But the most interesting part is that everything was real in this staged demonstration except for the battery pack in the Tesla — there were no batteries inside. Instead of batteries, there were pyrotechnics — the flames were fake.
AXA, French multinational insurance company, apparently gave this demonstration to its customers to instill the fear of electric vehicles in their hearts. Inside the Tesla community, this phenomenon is known as FUD . Battery pack fires are very rare for Tesla EVs, until and unless it’s a severe-enough accident that something surpasses all the safety measures installed into a Tesla vehicle. Data from a study spanning 9 years tells us that the ratio of Tesla battery pack fires is 1 for every 210 million miles traveled.
From 2012–2021, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 210 million miles traveled. By comparison, data from the National Fire Protection Association and U.S. Department of Transportation shows that in the United States there is a vehicle fire for every 19 million miles traveled.
In order to provide an apt comparison to NFPA data, Tesla’s data set includes instances of vehicle fires caused by structure fires, arson, and other things unrelated to the vehicle, which account for some of the Tesla vehicle fires over this time period.
add this to Tesla's new lawsuit list.
So the dozens of ICE car fires daily are fake too?
They should have been sued
AXA just proving what I’ve always believed… insurance is mandated fraud