I can think of some ways it would work. Having bladder enclose some cells that are designed be flimsy. Then put all that in something rigid.

Of course not. You can make sure it doesn't catch on fire if something hits the batteries though. We know that's what caused the one in Washington.

And that is a totally different issue, apples to oranges my friend.

As I've said in other posts a car catching on fire and a car catching on fire after a crash are two totally different things. 3% of the cars that catch on fire do it because of a crash.

It happens, but its not very common given the amount of crashes. We also know about the issues Jeep had with its fuel tanks. Its not good when you have to compare the Tesla to a crash in China that involved a car known for having this issue.

2 out of 12,000 within less than a year is a lot. To me it sounds like if the batteries get hit they start a fire. That's a design flaw that needs to be addressed.

Fires happen, but the numbers are something like 1/30,000 its very rare that a car catches on fire in a crash. They catch on fire for other reasons all the time, but not in crashes.

Tanking over this would be awful. I do think its good that people are busting Elon's balls for this though. A little public outrage and some motivated investors might be what it takes to get them to look into this and see what's up. Maybe they are just two freak accidents, we won't know until they do some…

This isn't going to go anywhere is it? You're not even listening to what I have to say.

Yeah, ok. This went poorly, I was trying to have a discussion and then the personal insults came out, and then nothing is going to get accomplished.

...aaaaaaaaand you have nothing to say.

Humm, Kinja doesn't seem to working right.

He shouldn't sue but Tesla should do the right thing and figure out the problem and fix it. We live in a world where its not acceptable to produce a product that turns into roman candle when its run into a wall.

Its not moving backwards exactly but its not really the kind of progress we want. All they need to do is figure out why this happened and implement some measures to prevent it. Then we won't have electrical fires and smoldering wrecks of cars that are a hazard.

Funny how the fanboy doesn't realize how stupid he's being. At least I'm pushing for them to fix a problem. You're here telling people to move along as there is nothing alarming about a car catching on fire.

You just don't have anything to counter it with so you resorted to personal attacks. Common troll strategy.

Dense? I'm not the moron defending a car that catches on fire when it crashes into things. How stupid are you that you think that is a reasonable argument?

They have a greater risk of fire than a normal car in an accident. Statistically speaking there should be a lot more Teslas on the the road before even one of them catches on fire in an accident.

They've stopped for one. With that the fanboys currently outnumber the "haters" so to speak.

I was unaware he lit his own car on fire...