One man experienced quite the adventure when his Tesla suddenly burst into flames on Henri-Pourassa Boulevard in Montreal in early March.
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Sacha De Santis and his girlfriend were on the road when they smelled a strong smell of smoke in their vehicle.
Immediately, Sacha parked his $170,000 Tesla Model X on the side of the boulevard.
They quickly abandoned their vehicle which was on fire.
“There was smoke and we couldn’t see anything in the car. We stopped and we didn’t know [ce qui allait arriver]”, the real estate broker testifies to our journalist.
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Sacha and his wife wondered if their vehicle was going to explode. Helplessly, the couple watched their SUV go up in flames.
“We don’t know anything. Then, you find your vehicle, all its contents, your laundry, and your computer on fire. You don’t have time to take anything. It was very trying,” he said.
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Mr. said that the condition of the battery in this fire is not in question. De Santis thinks.
“Tesla has an app that preheats your car. I left the suit on as it was winter […] Because what I think is heating [la fumée] The air was coming out of the vents,” he told TVA Nouvelles.
“The firemen told me that the battery was not damaged. When a battery catches fire, it takes hours to put out, and it doesn’t.”
Although his Tesla was engulfed in flames, Sacha de Santis decided to buy another one.
On the multinational company’s website, Tesla defends itself and says gasoline cars are more prone to catching fire.
“From 2012 to 2020 in the US, Tesla vehicles were ten times less likely to catch fire per mile driven than the average gasoline vehicle. […] Tesla’s batteries are designed to dissipate heat from the cabin, helping to prevent fires and protect occupants.
