> In mid-April, a Tesla crashed into a tree in a suburb outside of Houston, and it took firefighters four hours to put out flames fueled by the car’s battery pa

> In mid-April, a Tesla crashed into a tree in a suburb outside of Houston, and it took firefighters four hours to put out flames fueled by the car’s battery pack. When the fire was out, they concluded that neither of the car’s two occupants had been in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash. A Tesla executive later broke with that official account and claimed that a person had been in the driver’s seat. That "four hours to put out flames" is a bit of a stretch according to some of the reporting that came out later[1]. The fire was mostly out in about 10 minutes, but they had to keep pouring water on it until they could move the car and spray water more directly on the battery. This seems like sloppy/overly sensational reporting by the Washington Post. [1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36189237/tesla-model-s-fire-texas-crash-details-fire-chief/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36189237/tesla-model-s-fi... edit: to be clear, I think Tesla deserves lots of criticism for autopilot failures that result in deaths; I just think the article is stating something as fact that's debatable.