Alright, let's do the math. 150,000 car fires per year / 52 weeks is 2880 fires per week. There are 135900000[1] vehicles in the US, which gives 21.2 fires per

Alright, let's do the math. 150,000 car fires per year / 52 weeks is 2880 fires per week. There are 135900000[1] vehicles in the US, which gives 21.2 fires per million-vehicles week. With 19000 Teslas on the road and three fires in six weeks we have 0.5 (fires / week) / 0.019 (million vehicles) = 26.3 fires per million-vehicles week. So even if this is typical for the Model S (and it doesn't seem to be), the cars aren't much more likely to catch fire than ordinary cars. Also, I haven't accounted for the fact that the Model S's probably get driven more than your average passenger car, both due to low per-mile costs and the fact that they're more likely to be new and thus valued by their owners. Taking this into account would probably bring the Model S's fire-rate below gas cars again. [1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+cars+in+us http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+cars+in+us