This Tesla Model S Burnt To The Ground While Charging

While this Tesla Model S was being charged, something went badly wrong, causing the car to burn to the ground. Firefighters had to use special foam to put the flames out...

Alex Kersten

01 Jan 2016

Tesla tok fyr under hurtiglading. https://t.co/enzKpdWxae @nrksorlandet pic.twitter.com/rLzQmUBCFE
— NRK (@NRKno) January 1, 2016

This empty shell is all that remains of a 2014 Tesla Model S after it burnt to the ground while being charged in Norway. The cause of the fire is currently unknown, but is being investigated.

The incident happened when the owner of the Model S plugged it in and left it for charging. On returning a short time later, the car was engulfed in flames. Firefighters had to use a special foam to combat the flames and to make the lithium batteries safe.

Luckily, nobody was injured.

Comments

It hurts so much. Do you think Tesla will blame their car or their baterries? I don’t think so.

They make both.

‘Luckily, nobody was injured’. Tesla was injured );

Their money is getting a beating. But hopefully, that doesn’t happen again.

One of the many reasons I don’t like electric cars…

haha yeah, next CarThrottle post: ‘’5 Reasons why Tesla Model S isn’t so electrifying”

You can’t come to conclusion that the car caused the fire. According to your thinking gt3’s are bad cars

Because internal combustion engines never caught fire :P

It’s not Tesla’s fault :((((((((((((((((((((( It’s the umm, the uhh, yeah the wind blew too hard

So, in some way Teslas do have internal combustion…

You mean External combustion…. hue hue hue

That comment is on fire

At least spontaneous combustion.

Looks really hot
goes into a corner

That was a really hot fire

“Special Foam”

Also known as a fire extinguishers

Get your mind out of the gutter! ;)

According to the newspost, it says that they can’t use water to extinguish electric cars becuase of the lithium batteries, so they have to use some kind of special foam, and that made the extuingishing very hard because they’re not used electric car fires in that part of Norway. Atleast that’s how i understood it and tried my best to translate :)