That's Tesla's PR spin. You'd probably be in pretty bad shape from the heat if you were trapped in that car. The guy taking the video remarked he could feel it

That's Tesla's PR spin. You'd probably be in pretty bad shape from the heat if you were trapped in that car. The guy taking the video remarked he could feel it just by driving by. A key question here is how easy it is to start a fire from a relatively minor and common incident such as hitting road debris. Sure, it's possible in gas cars, and gas fires burn quickly. But if it's a lot more common in cars with giant vulnerability zones along their entire undersides where shrapnel can start fires through physical damage without even an ignition source... All I'm saying is this is definitely something we need to monitor closely, not just dismiss offhandedly or spin with clever PR like "the fire didn't enter the cabin (but still could have killed you)".