Tesla apparently investigates explosion of parked car in Shanghai
Tesla said Monday it immediately sent a team to investigate an apparent explosion of one of its cars that happened in Shanghai on Sunday evening local time.
There are no known losses at this time, the electric car company said in a Chinese language post on Weibo, China's version of Twitter. Tesla also said it is in active communication and collaboration with relevant departments about the situation.
It It was not immediately clear which Tesla model was affected, but reports indicated that the car was parked at the time of the fire.
In January, Chicago law firm Corboy & Demetrio said that there have been at least a dozen cases worldwide in the last five years with model S batteries exploding in collisions and parked vehicles, part of a lawsuit against Tesla claiming a 201[ads1]4 model S had a defective battery pack, something which led an 18-year-old passenger to die in an accident last year, Reuters repo rt
-Reuters contributed to this report.