Shanghai Qibao Tesla caught fire, was it a car fault or a driver's mistake?

Some netizens posted that a Tesla Model 3 spontaneously ignited and exploded in the underground garage of Qibao Sheng Mao Garden Community. The vehicle burned and caught fire. Smoke billowed from the scene, leaving only a set of empty shells. The reporter came to Sheng Mao Garden and saw a car wreck that had been burned into a frame in the underground garage of the community. Most car bodies are covered with dust covers.

The car is parked in the middle of the basement road, but it is not in the parking space. The surrounding area has been surrounded by isolation belts. A few meters away, many cars of other car owners can smell the strong burning smell in the underground garage. There are pools of water on the ground, and the foam left by firefighters when they put out the fire.

The reporter learned at the residential property office that the owner drove the Tesla Model 3 electric car home. On the way into the underground garage of the community, the bottom of the vehicle collided with the garage manhole cover and caught fire. ? At first, the fire in the car was very small. After abandoning the car, the owner found the community security guard to help put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but failed to stop the fire from expanding, and immediately called 1 19? .

After receiving the alarm, the fire department rushed to the incident area to carry out disposal work. Firefighters laid hoses to the underground garage where the incident occurred and used fire foam to carry out the rescue work. The underground garage was dark and the ground was covered with fire-fighting foam. Fortunately, the accident did not cause any casualties. Li Shifu Community Security: Around 7 pm, before 7: 30 pm, the owner found us from the basement and said that the car in the basement was on fire. We immediately removed the fire extinguisher. I wanted to get close to it. Hearing the explosion, I put the fire extinguisher in half? I ran away, the fire was too big, it sounded like shooting!

Tesla responded: Tesla said that according to the owner's description, after driving the vehicle into the basement, he felt that the chassis collided and then stopped for inspection. The owner took out his personal belongings immediately after he found smoke in front of him, and the car started to catch fire shortly after he left safely. The company initially judged that the cause of the fire was that the high-voltage battery at the bottom of the vehicle was hit, causing the internal battery to be damaged and short-circuited, which eventually led to a fire. Tesla said that the company has been fully cooperating with the regulatory authorities and Minhang Fire Brigade to investigate the cause of the accident, and at the same time, it has kept in touch with the owners and provided them with necessary assistance.