01.01.2016: The Tesla Model S has acceleration like a supercar, and sometimes it can burn like one too. According to news reports, a Model S caught fire at a Supercharger station in Norway this afternoon.
State news agency NRK reports (via Google translate) that no one was injured in the blaze. The owner of the car set it to charge and then left, and then at some point it began to burn, NRK reported. Users on Reddits r/teslamotors claim the Supercharger station was a temporary one. More photos of the blaze can be seen at the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen.
The exact cause of the fire is unknown, but firefighters had to use special chemical foam to extinguish the burning lithium batteries.
News article with a lot of images:Tesla tok fyr på Brokelandsheia http://www.igjerstad.no/tesla-tok-fyr-pa-brokelandsheia
Poster Comment:
Maybe there's a reason for all the rules and regs re: Lithium batteries
Spare (uninstalled) lithium ion and lithium metal batteries must be carried in carry-on baggage only. When a carry-on bag is checked at the gate or at planeside, all spare lithium batteries must be removed from the bag and kept with the passenger in the aircraft cabin. The battery terminals must be protected from short circuit.
This covers spare lithium metal and spare rechargeable lithium ion batteries for personal electronics such as cameras, cell phones, laptop computers, tablets, watches, calculators, etc. This also includes external battery chargers (portable rechargers) containing a lithium ion battery. For lithium batteries that are installed in a device (laptop, cell phone, camera, etc.), see the entry for "portable electronic devices, containing batteries" in this chart. https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/hazmat_safety/more_info/?hazmat=7