Elon Musk and Tesla Motors have announced new safety additions to its Tesla Model S electric vehicle. New titanium underbody shields and aluminium deflector plates are now being installed on all Model ...

Responding to several fires involving its Model S sedan, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) is adding a titanium shield to protect the vehicle’s underbody and prevent objects from puncturing the battery.

"In 2013, two extremely unusual Model S collisions resulted in underbody damage that led to car fires." Writes Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Those fires and the resulting ...

Tesla Motors announced this morning that it will fit three new underbody components to all Model S electric cars to add further protection against impacts from road debris, which caused a pair of ...

Following three reports last year of fires from punctured battery packs, Tesla Motors today revealed updates to its all-electric Model S sedan that it says should eliminate the chance a piece of road ...

There may be no more prodigious PR machine than Tesla Motors, but the electric-car manufacturer got more headlines than it bargained for last year when two different Model S sedans caught fire in a ...

When I first heard last week that Tesla was offering Model S owners a free retrofit that would install its new underbody shield and deflector plates, I called my local Tesla Motors service center ...

Elon Musk is posting on Medium. And his first article is about the new titanium underbody shield and aluminum deflector plates to protect the carriages of the Model S from damages that could have led ...