Wasn’t this work done during the SolarCity years?
When you buy a company, you also get their liabilities.
Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
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#12> Tesla is also facing a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board after several Model X and Model S owners across the globe said their cars burst into flames
yawn
Are other automakers suffering the same investigations?
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=812639
> Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annual average of 345 deaths > Approximately one in eight fires responded to by fire departments across the nation is a highway vehicle fire.
Car fires are nothing new. The media coverage for EVs is not proportional.
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#13Another Tesla bashing article by mainstream media, move along.
100s of thousand of damage, that's pocket change for Walmart and Tesla.
Model X and S burst into flame !!! Tesla stock is down 1%, Be Afraid ! Don't buy Tesla !!!
Tesla spend zero on advertising, their main source of revenue. They are also disrupting big oil and the auto industry, plenty of enemies to go around.
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#14The Walton Family also happens to own much of First Solar, a competing provider of photovoltaic cells.
The Walton family collectively is worth over $150 billion, it’s not surprising they have exposure to a solar company somewhere in their vast fortune. If you’re implying that this lawsuit has no merit because of that investment that seems like an incredibly shaky accusation.
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#15> Tesla is also facing a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board after several Model X and Model S owners across the globe said their cars burst into flames yawn Are other automakers suffering the same investigations? https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=812639 > Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annua…
There's hundreds of times more non-EVs on the road, so the question would be the proportionate level of fires.
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#16> Tesla is also facing a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board after several Model X and Model S owners across the globe said their cars burst into flames yawn Are other automakers suffering the same investigations? https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=812639 > Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annua…
> The media coverage for EVs is not proportional
Do we have EV car fire frequencies for comparison with ICE engines? Without denominators saying “all cats burn” is overly reductive.
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#17A Journal of Light Construction editor had a fire in his SolarCity panel set-up as well, and had a hard time getting it sorted out.
https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...
and here's a follow-up: https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#18Anyone know details about how the solar panels resulted in fires?
Re: Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
#19Wasn’t this work done during the SolarCity years?
I found that interesting as well. The article is trying to link solar panel failures to Tesla vehicle failures. They were not born from the same company nor process.
It seems whatever generated the story was looking for some segue into how the price is down.
The stock price was affected by the market's new knowledge. They both contain words for fire but are otherwise independent and distant events in Tesla's history.
A more likely scenario is these liabilities that Tesla acquired a couple of years ago had otherwise gone unnoticed. They have now been noticed and the market will risk the outcome of Walmart and all of these other Solar City contracts.
The potential risk of these contracts is what is weighing on Telsa's stock price, not a handful of vehicle fires.
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#20> Tesla is also facing a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board after several Model X and Model S owners across the globe said their cars burst into flames yawn Are other automakers suffering the same investigations? https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=812639 > Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annua…
Yeah, but relatively speaking there aren't that many Tesla's on the road.
What you'd need to do is compare the number of Tesla fires (per 1000 cars) versus other new IC cars (per 1000).