{"id":6064,"date":"2022-10-17T21:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T02:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/best-insurance.five.zysites.com\/blog\/many-tesla-fires-after-hurricane\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T21:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T02:07:50","slug":"many-tesla-fires-after-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/sin-categorizar\/many-tesla-fires-after-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Tesla fires after hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 15px;\">A Florida senator is calling for action from the Transportation Department and automakers after a series of electric vehicle fires tied to Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 15px;\">The storm caused flooding and destruction across the state, and fire officials say they are still seeing its impact with EV batteries catching fire after saltwater damage. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is aware of multiple fires in Tesla vehicles, the agency said in a letter sent Friday to a Florida official<span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #666666;\">&ldquo;This emerging threat has forced local fire departments to divert resources away from hurricane recovery to control and contain these dangerous fires,&rdquo; said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL). &ldquo;Car fires from electric vehicles have proven to be extremely dangerous and last for a prolonged period, taking in many cases up to six hours to burn out.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida senator is calling for action from the Transportation Department and automakers after a series of electric vehicle fires tied to Hurricane Ian. The storm caused flooding and destruction across the state, and fire officials say they are still seeing its impact with EV batteries catching fire after saltwater damage. The National Highway Traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinsurancetx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}