13th May 2019 – (Hong Kong) A Tesla Model S randomly burst into flame at the carpark of San Po Kong Plaza at 4.15pm yesterday after the owner parked his car for 30 minutes. Explosion from the vehicle alerted the security guard who immediately called the police.

Firefighters took 45 minutes to extinguish the fire and left the front of the vehicle badly damaged. The owner of the vehicle revealed that the battery malfunctioned recently and he did complain to Tesla about the issue but he didn’t expect the car to catch fire and explode.

The Tesla vehicle is a S 85 KWH DUAL POWER model manufactured in 2015. He charged his car yesterday to almost 97% capacity before parking his car at the car park of San Po Kong Plaza.

In April 2019, Tesla has rushed a team of investigators to Shanghai to look into how and why a Model S exploded in a parking garage. The incident happened on the evening of April 21, and a video of the electric sedan going up in flames was widely shared on Chinese social media network Weibo before spreading to Twitter and Facebook. The company stressed that no one was hurt during the incident.