{"id":11734,"date":"2013-11-19T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2013-11-19T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T20:58:57","slug":"how-does-the-tesla-model-s-fire-risk-compare-to-gasoline-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11734","title":{"rendered":"How Does the Tesla Model S Fire Risk Compare to Gasoline Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Since the Model S went into production last year, there have been more than a quarter million gasoline car fires in the United States alone, resulting in over 400 deaths and approximately 1,200 serious injuries (extrapolating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/research\/fire-statistics\/the-us-fire-problem\/highway-vehicle-fires\" target=\"_blank\">2012 NFPA data<\/a>). However, the three Model S fires, which only occurred after very high-speed collisions and caused no serious injuries or deaths, received more national headlines than all 250,000+ gasoline fires combined. The media coverage of Model S fires vs. gasoline car fires is disproportionate by several orders of magnitude, despite the latter actually being far more deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the headlines, it is therefore easy to assume that the Tesla Model S and perhaps electric cars in general have a greater propensity to catch fire than gasoline cars when nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/mission-tesla\">The Mission of Tesla | Blog | Tesla Motors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Model S went into production last year, there have been more than a quarter million gasoline car fires in the United States alone, resulting in over 400 deaths and approximately 1,200 serious injuries (extrapolating 2012 NFPA data). However, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[180,739],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-math","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}