Tesla Is Not !@#$ing Around With Fires Anymore

The risk of Tesla’s Model S sedan catching fire has been reduced to “virtually zero,” wrote Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a blog post Friday. Thanks to a titanium shield sandwiched between a "rounded, hollow" aluminum bar and a "shallow angle, solid" aluminum extrusion, Model S sedans built after March 6 are supposedly safer than ever, a fine feat considering the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration named it the safest car it ever tested. Tesla focused on strengthening the car's underside after it found two Model S fires -- one in Seattle, Wash. and the other in Smyrna, Tenn. --

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