Except it does happen, eventually. It doesn't happen to teslas much either. Web search found this stack exchange article "Catalytic converter - ... and as he w

Except it does happen, eventually. It doesn't happen to teslas much either. Web search found this stack exchange article "Catalytic converter - ... and as he was driving down the hill a few days later it caught fire" https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/4010/car-crash-when-does-a-car-catch-fir" https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/4010/car-crash... Amusingly the same story about the tesla as in this article comes up over and over again in different reports of the same incident.