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*Relative to other cars, Tesla car fires are quite rare. is that true? do you know the stats on this because that would be interesting, obviously normalized fo

• bri3d 13y ago
  I was only able to find very rough numbers. In 2012, there were about 172,500 car fires out of an estimated 243,000,000 total registered cars. That means that about .072% of registered vehicles caught fire in 2012. 6-8 out of 22,000 Teslas built worldwide have caught fire - at worst, .04% of Teslas. Why would you normalize by model year before having seen any data? Do you posit that older cars by years since manufacture date are more likely to catch fire? That poorly maintained cars or higher mileage cars are more likely to catch fire? That modern cars are less likely to catch fire? Each of these hypotheses would require some form of validation. As a point of comparison to a car with an actual fire problem, 10 of the 1,500 produced Ferrari 458s caught fire in a 3 month period before Ferrari recalled the cars to replace a wheel arch adhesive which caused the fires. Source for fire number: http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fires-in-the-us http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/fires-in...