{"id":363503,"date":"2026-10-12T20:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-ordered-to-pay-162000-for-model-x-fire-after-failed-vandalism-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:01:53","slug":"tesla-ordered-to-pay-162000-for-model-x-fire-after-failed-vandalism-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-ordered-to-pay-162000-for-model-x-fire-after-failed-vandalism-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla ordered to pay $162,000 for Model X fire after failed \u2018vandalism\u2019 defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/10\/tesla-ordered-to-pay-162000-for-model-x-fire-after-failed-vandalism-defense.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Tesla told a Quebec court that car fires are \u201cgenerally\u201d caused by misuse or vandalism. The judge didn\u2019t buy it, and Tesla Canada now has to cover the C$161,700 an insurer paid out for a Model X that burned in Montreal. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/10\/12\/tesla-model-x-fire-montreal-court-vandalism-defense\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/tesla-ordered-to-pay-162000-for-model-x-fire-after-failed-vandalism-defense\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":363504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}