{"id":47046,"date":"2013-10-03T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=47046"},"modified":"2013-10-03T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:09:51","slug":"tesla-stock-price-goes-down-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/47046\/tesla-stock-price-goes-down-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla stock price goes down in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet video of a fiery Tesla electric car near Seattle helped to push down the company&#8217;s stock price Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Tesla Motors fell more than 6 percent to $180.95. It was the stock&#8217;s biggest one-day decline since July 16.<\/p>\n<p>The automobile site Jalopnik.com posted the video that it says was taken by a reader. The video shows the front of a Tesla Model S in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla says the car hit a large metal object in the road on Tuesday, causing significant damage. The driver escaped unharmed and the blaze was put out by firefighters. Tesla says the fire was limited to the front of the $70,000 car.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla shares have risen more than 400 percent since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The video in question can be viewed below. Video contains strong language.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0kjI08n4fg\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cars and transport<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Smart Cars to shake up auto industry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/45752\/smart-cars-to-shake-up-auto-industry\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Smart Cars to shake up auto industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Big carmaker joins self-driving car drive\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/45485\/big-carmaker-joins-self-driving-car-drive\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big carmaker joins self-driving car drive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Self-driving cars coming by 2020\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/44859\/self-driving-cars-coming-by-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Self-driving cars coming by 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Elon Musk\u2019s Hyperloop takes shape\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/44053\/elon-musks-hyperloop-takes-shape\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elon Musk\u2019s Hyperloop takes shape<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet video of a fiery Tesla electric car near Seattle helped to push down the company&#8217;s stock price Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,839,6118],"class_list":["post-47046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-stock","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47086,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47046\/revisions\/47086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}