Tesla Model S burned out at a fast charging station in Norway

The 2014 Tesla Model S electric car burned out at a Norwegian fast-charging station. This is reported by the Norwegian resource NRK. There was no one in the car at that time, so there were no injuries. The electric car caught fire after the owner of the electric car put it on charge and went away. Now the police are investigating this incident, but so far there is no clear explanation of what happened.

Interestingly, the ignition of an electric car is a more complex problem than the ignition of a conventional car. The fact is that in most electric cars lithium batteries are installed. Lithium reacts very actively with water, so trying to put out an electric car with water can lead to sad consequences. Norwegian firefighters had to use a special foam fire extinguisher to eliminate the fire.



Tesla has already announced that it will investigate the incident to determine the cause of the fire. Tesla Motors, for obvious reasons, wants to prove that fast charging stations are not dangerous to people. However, electric car drivers who plan to drive the E18 Aust-Agder will be forced to look for another way to recharge their electric car’s battery.

By the way, earlier the company had to equip Model S with a titanium shield protecting the battery from below. This was done after the ignition of the electric car in 2013 .



Despite the fact that accidents or the ignition of Tesla electric cars are very rare, such incidents can be a known danger to the company. In the sense that customers are starting to be even more cautious about electric vehicles. Four cases of Tesla fire are known today: the case described above, the problem with a battery puncture (video), the collision of an electric vehicle with a trailer and a fire in the garage. On the roads, tens of thousands of Tesla electric vehicles are now riding, without any problems. So the reliability of the company's electric vehicles is still very high, it remains only to find out why the car at the gas station caught fire.