Originally Posted by
tdracer
Scuffers, at least two Tesla's have caught fire and burned due to battery failures in service. As vapilot said, never say never.
not quite the same thing, they had both been breached physically by hard objects, they had not 'cooked' themselves, in a physical car accident, there are a whole host of possible issues, and for only two to have issues with several hundred thousand cars on the road, that's pretty good numbers (hell, petrol/diesel cars have been known to catch fire).
The point is that Tesla's installation and battery management has been designed and tested to death, Boeing relied on farming different parts of the job out to different companies, and that's always going to be a recipe for problems.
Airbus appear to have got the whole system done by one supplier, which should eliminate the finger pointing and miss-communication.