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Mary McCormack, who played Commander Kate Harper in the TV-drama “The West Wing,” posted a video showing her hubby’s Model S ablaze on Santa Monica Boulevard Saturday.

 

“Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over,” she wrote. “And thank God my three little girls weren’t in the car with him.”

 

McCormack, 49, said there was no accident to prompt the flames and that the fire started “out of the blue.”

 

Her husband, director Michael Morris, was forced to bail from the vehicle but wasn’t injured.

 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Dan Nagelmann confirmed to ABC Newsthat either a battery or mechanical issue caused the conflagration.

 

In a statement a Tesla spokesperson called the incident “an extraordinarily unusual occurrence” and said they were investigating.

 

The electric vehicle company has had issues with their autopilot feature – includingdeadly crashes in San Francisco and Willinston Fla., – but McCormack later specified that her husband’s car wasn’t on autopilot.

 

The actress and Morris, who has directed episodes of Netflix’s “House of Cards” and “13 Reasons Why,” were married in 2003.

[Guest]

Holy smokes!

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-tons-water-and-special-container-used-extinguish-burning-tesla-austria

[DallasClient]

I would love to buy a Tesla but I won't buy one without a 500 mile range. It will be years probably before they have that range.

[mike carey]

I would love to buy a Tesla but I won't buy one without a 500 mile range. It will be years probably before they have that range.

I can understand you would think that way in a state like Texas, assuming that you regularly drive between cities rather than just in the DFW metro complex, and that's how I think here even though my most frequent drive is 200km with a couple of others in the 300-400km range. That said, from what I've been reading battery range is increasing fast but I'm still more inclined towards a plug-in hybrid than a pure EV. The other thing that will likely come up and surprise us more quickly than we expect is for the existing car companies to become the biggest players in the EV market at the expense of specialists like Tesla. Some of the European car makers are talking about phasing out ICV production sooner rather than later, and ticket prices are already approaching parity.