Tesla fire accident completely report

Tesla fire accident completely Report
2013-10-04 Hua Lizhi
To be very influential luxury electric vehicle Tesla suffered a public relations crisis in the largest:

In October 1st, a new Tesla S luxury sedan in the USA South Seattle road accident on fire, picture the scene of the accident quickly spread throughout the network, resulting in Tesla stock over the next two days cumulative drop of 10%, the company's market value has been cut from $2300000000. (this year, Tesla shares have soared nearly 6 times)

A new report from the Reuters journalist Ben Klayman, the reduction of the events of the original, to clarify a few important facts:
Tesla company to confirm the vehicle accident, hit the "bulk metal objects" (fire department recognized the road debris, leading to the front of the car) large area damage, battery ignition.
According to Tesla, the large metal objects directly impact a module battery Tesla S car is composed of 16 modules in the cause of the fire. Analysts say the metal object, destroyed the cooling system of vehicle, causing the battery ignition.
After the fire, automatic warning Tesla S car, gave the driver time parking plenty of escape, but it has not spread into the inside of the car Tesla official statement, vehicle and battery the fire performance meet the design requirements. According to the design, each battery module, battery are flame retardant isolation, to limit any possible damage, so the fire was controlled in a finite interval at the front of the vehicle.
The fire department's report shows, firemen put out fire, fire and from the bottom of the car again, at first tried to put out the fire with water, but exacerbated the flame, finally use the fire extinguisher to put out a chemical powder most flame, then the firemen had to jack up the car chassis, to contact the battery car front of fire, then circular sawing a hole in the battery shell, only then can the water to the battery, ignition, the fire completely extinguished.
The new Tesla S and old Roadster total mileage has reached 113000000 miles, this is the first cell of fire accidents Tesla auto fire frequency is still only a traditional car 1/10.

Before the electric car also had a battery fire accident: GM's Chevrolet Volt and Mitsubishi automobile i-MiEV. Nevertheless, the impact such as Tesla pure electric car company, significantly more than electric cars accounted for more than a few traditional automobile company.

The incident coincided with the American government due to budget ran aground and closed, affecting the further in-depth investigation of the incident.

Tesla S vehicle battery supplier is a Panasonic Corp of japan.

Tesla electric vehicle battery and other electric car maker, is composed of a plurality of small lithium ion battery (also commonly used battery of notebook computer batteries), the base across the vehicle.

General large battery electric car Volt using T shape, in the middle of the car, take up a lot of space travel, but can avoid direct collision. Nickel iron battery Toyota Prius hybrid cars with cheaper, more heavy, environmental protection automobile fields (electric and hybrid), including general motors and Ford Motor Co, is gradually shifting to the use of lighter, smaller, more long lasting lithium ion battery.

Tesla S car is the most popular American pure electric vehicles, in August this year, all test items USA National Highway Safety Management Committee of, have received the highest five-star safety ratings.

The first nine months of this year, Tesla S has sold 14300 units, at present entered the China market, at the time of booking received warm response.

Wedbush securities analyst Craig Irwin thinks the event term for Tesla sales will have a negative impact, but the long-term demand remains strong, and will help Tesla learn, improvement on the third generation X car to be launched next year. Although he will be on the Tesla stock rating to "hold", is not the major cause for the fire, but overvalued.