On Saturday afternoon, June 16, in Los Angeles (CA) fire occurred on a moving vehicle Tesla model S. Video of the incident in his Twitter posted the wife of the driver (Director Michael Morris) is an American actress Mary McCormack.
She said that the car has not been in an accident and just driving down Santa Monica Blvd. Fortunately, a couple from a nearby car honked at her husband, so he stopped. «Glory to God in the car with him at that moment was not my three little girls,» angrily finished his message McCormack, known to viewers of the television series «the West wing», the film «K-pax», «1408».
@Tesla This is what happened to my husband and his car today. No accident,out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over. And thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him pic.twitter.com/O4tPs5ftVo
— Mary McCormack (@marycmccormack) June 16, 2018
Tesla quickly responded to the incident with their electric vehicles. «We are pleased that our client was unharmed,» said the company. They also noted that the case «extraordinary» and unusual. Their experts have already started their investigation, so in the near future the cause of spontaneous combustion is established.
The fire of electric cars, though very rarely, but it happens. And a Tesla model more prone to this, likely because of the unique composition of their batteries that are more energy intensive, experts say. The video shows that the flame is pulled out from under the front of the machine (there is rechargeable battery) side of the road.
The fire was quickly extinguished by arriving firefighters.
At the end of may, we reported about another incident involving the Tesla electric car.
