Tesla Inc (TSLA)

[boston745]

#4 2021 Tesla fire was more a partial thermal runaway event than a fire. I would say the BMS did its job catching a TR event in progress by shutting things down before it got worse. However toxic fumes, smoke, and some glitching did ensue.
That's 4 tesla spontaneous events all coupled with solar/geo activity 3 months into 2021.

2 Chevy Bolts catch fire this year without impact and GM issues a recall due to safety. We are 4 thermal events for Tesla impacting 3 of its 4 models so far in 2021 with well over 10 spontaneous combustion events in 2020 yet no recall? This is a company that cares about its customers?

#1

30 seconds later I start smelling a toxic electric smell. Was warmish in Chicago so I had sunroof open. Couldn’t tell whether it was me or I was downwind of something or some other car, but yet smell was definitely there. 30 seconds after that I received the following alert at bottom of cluster, “Car may not restart; contact service”. . . Uh oh.

Kept driving, and 30 seconds more, about quarter mile to my destination I had what can only be referred to as an “Apollo 13” moment. Everything started beeping, alerts in rapid succession started filling my infotainment screen. Maggie started shutting all systems down 1 at a time but 100 alerts popped up in seconds. It was intense and chaotic. As I pulled into destination, I lost power steering, the accelerator stopped responding and I luckily coasted into the parking lot and rolled to a stop. I intentionally parked away from everyone because I thought I might be calling the fire department.

This thermal event happened just a day after a solar storm his the geomagnetic field and saw a G2 class geostorm.

#2

AURORAS IN THE USA: A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field on March 20th, igniting a brief but strong G2-class geomagnetic storm

Quote source #1
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/major-problem-electrical-failure-smell-smoke-and-shutdown-2017-model-s.223417/
Quote source #2
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=21&month=03&year=2021

The company made the move on Friday after two Bolts caught fire without impact recently.