Even after Juris Shibayama’s Tesla Model S plug-in electric car became the third to catch fire in six weeks, his confidence in the car didn’t waver.

“I would buy another one a heartbeat,” Shibayama, who described the advance warnings the vehicle’s emergency system sounded before it went ablaze in Smyrna, Tenn., wrote on Tesla’s blog.

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