\nTesla Ablaze<\/p>\n

Tesla made its name by building electric cars with the most powerful battery packs ever devised, composed of cells made with lithium oxides. This compound makes for the most efficient rechargeable batteries, but is highly volatile.<\/p>\n

If damaged, cells in lithium batteries can ignite in a chain reaction called a thermal runaway, fed by the oxygen in the metal oxides known as a Class D fire. These are famously difficult to extinguish.<\/p>\n

Since their introduction in the early 1990s, lithium cells in consumer electronics have been involved in string of conflagrations, most notably in Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Note 7 in 2016, a fiasco that destroyed the rollout of this smartphone at the cost of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

The disaster potential is even greater in large lithium battery packs for electric cars, which contain far more reactive material than consumer electronics cells.<\/p>\n

Tesla in Pennsylvania catches fire, flames spread to home<\/h3>\n

No one was hurt in the incident<\/em><\/p>\n

By Maria Lencki<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firefighters believe that the back end of the vehicle caught fire, which then leapt onto the attached garage of a Montgomery County home Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The fire was contained in less than a half hour. No one was injured. <\/p>\n

Investigators have not yet revealed the cause of the fire, and the amount of damage done to the residence is still unclear.<\/p>\n

FOX Business reached out to Tesla, which did not respond before publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A rare event, nothing to see here. Oh, wait.<\/p>\n