Shanghai: US electric auto maker Tesla said it had launched an investigation after a video circulating in China showed one of its cars suddenly burst into flames in a garage in Shanghai.
The security camera footage has become one of the hottest topics on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform since it was posted on Sunday, now viewed 22 million times with the hashtag “Tesla self-ignites”.
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