US electric vehicle maker Tesla announced on Monday that it had assigned a team of experts to investigate the incident, shown in a video that appeared on Chinese social media showing a parked Tesla Model S car exploding. .
A video widely circulated Sunday night on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, showed smoke rising from a parked electric vehicle, which caught fire a few seconds later. Due to the resulting fire, several more nearby cars were completely destroyed.
Reuters, which broke the news, was unable to immediately verify the origin of the video, which Weibo users say was filmed in Shanghai. The cause of the explosion is also difficult to establish from the video.
“We immediately sent a team of specialists to the scene and are supporting local authorities in establishing the facts. Based on the information currently available, no one was hurt, ”Tesla said in a statement.
Aftermath hopefully we will hear from Tesla what truly happened.
— Jay in Shanghai (@ShanghaiJayin)
Source: 3dnews.ru