Debris on the road caused a Tesla Model 3 fire (9 photos)

The entry of any objects from the roadway into a location located in The bottom of the battery may cause a fire. This is exactly what happened in Newark, New Jersey with the 2022 Tesla Model 3 electric car release.





According to the driver, shortly before the screen a warning about the presence of a critical problem was displayed, he ran into some hard object. Acting according to instructions, the man called emergency services and turned off the car, from the bottom of which clouds were already falling smoke.

The story with extinguishing, as usually happens with electric cars, turned out to be long and dreary.

In 2014, the then new Tesla Model S, after several cases of spontaneous combustion after encountering road debris have been identified critical vulnerability of the battery. To protect the battery from hostile physical impact, a titanium plate was placed below and aluminum deflector.

It would seem that the problem was resolved successfully, but the case in Newark says that a random fragment still found a gap in protection and penetrated into the traction battery, which consists of many cylindrical elements like AA batteries, the remaining lying on the asphalt after the car’s remains had been taken away.

It is unknown whether any other changes will be made to Tesla additional changes to the design of the lower part. Anyway owners of electric vehicles should be more careful on the road.