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Tesla Stock Tumbles After Model S Catches Fire

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Shares of electric car company Tesla sank more than 6 percent Wednesday
after an Internet video showed flames spewing from one of the company's
vehicles near Seattle.
Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. fell $12.05 to $180.95 — the stock's biggest
one-day decline since July 16.
The incident happened Tuesday after 8 a.m. as the driver was traveling
southbound on state Route 167 through Kent, said Trooper Chris Webb of the
Washington State Patrol. The driver stated that he believed he had struck
some metal debris on the freeway, so he exited the highway and the vehicle
became disabled.
The driver told authorities he began to smell something burning and then the
vehicle caught fire. Firefighters needed several attempts to extinguish the
flames because the blaze kept reigniting, Webb said. A trooper who
responded to the scene was unable to locate any objects on the roadway, but
Department of Transportation workers did observe some debris near the scene.
Webb said there was too much damage from the fire to see what damage the
debris may have caused.
The automobile website Jalopnik.com posted photos of the blaze that it says
were taken by a reader, along with a video. The video shows the front of the
Tesla Model S in flames.
Tesla said the flames were contained to the front of the $70,000 vehicle due
to its design and construction. Company spokeswoman Liz Jarvis-Shean said
there were no indications that the fire was caused by anything other than
the crash.
"This was not a spontaneous event," she said. "Every indication we have at
this point is that the fire was a result of the collision and the damage
sustained through that."
Shares of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla have risen more than 400 percent
since the start of the year. But investors likely were alarmed, with some
selling their shares, out of fear that the fire could be an indication of a
flaw in the company's battery packs.
The company's battery system and the Model S itself have received rave
reviews, including a top crash-test score from the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration and a tie for the highest auto test score ever
recorded by Consumer Reports magazine.
After getting the top crash test score, Tesla touted the Model S as being "
the safest car in America." The car's liquid-cooled 85 kilowatt-hour battery
, mounted below the passenger compartment floor, uses lithium-ion chemistry
similar to batteries that power laptop computers and mobile phones. Millions
of such rechargeable batteries were recalled in 2006 and 2007 after it was
discovered they could overheat and ignite.
Two years ago, battery fires broke out in three Chevrolet Volt plug-in
hybrid cars after crash-testing, but NHTSA investigators determined that the
Volt was no more risky than vehicles with conventional gasoline engines.
Officials from General Motors Co. and the government believe the fires were
caused by coolant leaking from damaged plastic casing around the batteries
after side-impact test crashes. At the time, they said there were no real-
world fires in any Volts.
Still, the fires tarnished the Volt's reputation and cut into sales.
Recently, though, sales of the car have recovered. Sales are up about 3
percent this year, with GM selling about 17,000 through September.
Earlier this year, Boeing Co.'s worldwide fleet of 787 planes was grounded
because lithium-ion batteries overheated or caught fire. Flights resumed
four months later after a revamped battery system was installed.