The Model S battery's 16 modules are located underneath the car, protected by a steel plate. "Each module within the battery pack is, by design, isolated by fire barriers to limit any potential ...

Last week, a 62-year-old Tesla Model S owner drove into a sign announcing a construction site on the highway in Gratkorn, Austria. The sedan continued traveling down the highway for ~200 meters ...

A fire-simulating computer model developed at the National Institute ... the software has been used by engineers across the globe to design fire protection systems for buildings and for forensic ...

Rod Linn of Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico, who helped design yet another ... the spread of a fire that has already started thus requires compromise. A model called CAWFE has ...