According to Tesla, the OTA update just improves “the management of the CPU temperature and associated communications with elevated temperature operation.” However, we are not sure how that management happens or if it also deals with the battery pack.Īccording to the news channel, two cars were destroyed, and one had fire damage in the parking lot of the local Tesla Service Center. was suggested as having some connection to the problem. Still, according to the news channel, the cause of the fire was unknown, but the recent overheating CPU recall for 130,000 cars in the U.S. The unidentified woman told them the man had bought the EV the previous week. Fox2Now said the police found a man and a woman close to the burning vehicle. It was first reported by Fox2Now, which informed it started at 4:30 AM on May 23. The second fire happened on Route 3 in Brooklyn, Illinois. At this point, no one can say precisely what happened or how which makes blaming the crashes for the fires even more inadequate. If that were true, it could also explain the fatal crash with a fire that we wrote about in our last story about these blazes. Some other Twitter users raised the possibility that the car crashed because it started catching fire. If crashing is enough for a Tesla to catch fire, it should not be driven anywhere or never hit anything, which is impossible to ensure. The Ford Pinto became a major stain in Ford’s history because it did exactly that.

That was enough for Tesla advocates to rule out issues with the vehicle and claim that it caught fire after crashing, which is not a very effective way to defend anything: cars should never catch fire after a wreck.

The vehicle seems to have hit a tree, and it is in the wrong way of the road on which the video was shot. The Twitter user Bray Bray shared a video with a red Model 3 on fire. The first one was in an undisclosed location.

We’ll get there after we talk about the new blazes. Now we already have six more just in May, which is leading to multiple theories about why they are happening so often these days. From June 2021 until very recently, I personally covered seven Tesla fires. What makes them newsworthy is that they are happening at a faster pace than they usually did.

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