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Tesla probes car fire in Shanghai

Reuters, shanghai
US electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla Inc said it has sent a team to investigate a video on Chinese social media which showed a parked Tesla Model S car exploding, the latest in a string of fire incidents involving its cars.
The video, time stamped Sunday evening and widely shared on China's TWitter-like Weibo, shows the parked EV emit smoke and burst into flames seconds later. A video purportedly of the aftermath showed a line of three cars completely destroyed.
Shares of Tesla were down less than 2 percent at $268.5 in trading before the bell.
Reuters was not immediately able to verity the origins of the videos, which Weibo users said were taken in Shanghai.
The cause of the explosion could not be immediately ascertained from the videos.
"We immediately sent a team onsite and we re supporting local authorities to establish the faas. From what we know now, no one was harmed,’ Tesla said in a statement on Monday.
It declined comment further when contacted by Reuters.
There have been at least 14 instances of Tesla cars catching fire since 2013, with the majority occurring after a crash.
The automaker has said its EVs are about 10 times less likely to experience a fire than petrol-powered cars, based on its fleet of over 500,000 vehicles which have driven more than 10 billion miles. It did not specify whether the statistic referred to nor-
mal use or involving accidents.
The latest incident comes as Tesla tries to push sales in China, where its prices were impaaed by tit-for-tat tariffs imposed during Sino-US trade tensions last year.
The automaker currently imports all the cars it sells in China, but is building a faaory in Shanghai that will initially make its Model 3 and help reduce the impact of a trade war.
In March, Tesla was also on the receiving end of a labeling mix-up at Shanghai customs that led to a temporary suspension of clearance for a batch of Model 3 cars.
Analysts said the latest fire incident would likely increase attention on the safety of EVs but was unlikely to have a significant impact on Tesla's sales or reputation in China while the cause was being investigated.