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Wouldn't this be applicable to any EV and not just a particular brand that it's popular to throw into titles for maximum views right now?
Tesla doesn’t advertise so any clickbait involving them is fair game.
You know who does adverise? Other competing manufacturers and boy do they have a hard-on for advertising on news sites and broadcasts. Coincidence?
Maybe all brands, but can't be sure.
Tesla is "known" or at lest publicised in multiple places that they have pretty bad quality control, and I guess also bad design on some parts.
So bad protection on the battery at tesla design? Maybe? Is there a "review" on car internals somewhere? I have no idea.
Could another vehicle survive the same thing? Who knows, maybe? Maybe not?
I looked at this awhile ago. There is a google doc maintained by some anti-Tesla investors who track every fire that can find. It is still much lower than the US average fires per car.
I think it gets more attention because:
The advice I’ve been given (on train/bus batteries) is to shove the vehicle if safe when it starts; then do whatever possible to fully submerge in fresh water. Obviously that isn’t really feasible.
You asked a lot of questions that you didn't know the answer to. A good journalist would have attempted to answer most of those questions in the article. Seeing how these questions weren't answered, it's safe to say this was a clickbait article written by a trash journalist.