Reuters, HONG KONGA Tesla Inc electric vehicle caught fire in a parking lot in a Hong Kong shopping mall, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported yesterday, but no one was injured in the blaze, whose cause was not immediately known. The vehicle was a Tesla Model S 85kWh dual power version, added the paper, which gave no explanation of what might have caused the blaze. The Hong Kong Fire Services Department said that a vehicle caught fire on Sunday, but gave no details, such as the make. The incident comes three weeks after Tesla said it had sent a team to investigate a video on Chinese social media that showed a parked Tesla Model S exploding in the commercial hub of Shanghai. There have been at least 14 instances of Tesla vehicles catching fire since 2013, most of them after a crash.

Source: Taipei Times May 14, 2019 15:56 UTC