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Surveillance Video of Tesla Exploding in Shanghai Parking Lot Goes Viral
Surveillance Video of Tesla Exploding in Shanghai Parking Lot Goes Viral
Raphael Orlove
Today 9:45am
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Oxs7AT3N--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ysnwyxbmuoluhtydbgjf.mp4
Tesla is adamant that its cars are significantly less likely to catch fire than your average car, as Reuters reports, but that still hasn’t kept a surveillance video from spreading worldwide, showing a Tesla Model S bursting into flame and all but disappearing, Spinal Tap-style, in a parking garage reportedly in Shanghai.
That location is a funny one, as Tesla is gearing up to start making its own cars outside the city, with Gigafactory 3 under construction at the moment.
In any case, all of this blew up on Weibo, China’s other big social media platform that’s not WeChat. Thankfully, a local Tesla owner, Jay in Shanghai, put this all up on Twitter with some translations to make things easier for us.
Here’s a copy of the original video, also posted around by Bloomberg in a wire report:
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Raphael Orlove
Today 9:45am
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Oxs7AT3N--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ysnwyxbmuoluhtydbgjf.mp4
Tesla is adamant that its cars are significantly less likely to catch fire than your average car, as Reuters reports, but that still hasn’t kept a surveillance video from spreading worldwide, showing a Tesla Model S bursting into flame and all but disappearing, Spinal Tap-style, in a parking garage reportedly in Shanghai.
That location is a funny one, as Tesla is gearing up to start making its own cars outside the city, with Gigafactory 3 under construction at the moment.
In any case, all of this blew up on Weibo, China’s other big social media platform that’s not WeChat. Thankfully, a local Tesla owner, Jay in Shanghai, put this all up on Twitter with some translations to make things easier for us.
Here’s a copy of the original video, also posted around by Bloomberg in a wire report:
Good or bad, negative or positive I will post anything about Tesla or EVs in China. This happened today in Shanghai, China 🇨🇳 1st generation Tesla Model S caught Fire 🔥 underground car park.
#Tesla #TeslaChina #ModelS #Fire #China #Shanghai #特斯拉 #中国 $TSLA
Link to tweet
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