No Chevrolet Volt has ever had a lithium battery fire in the wild, and there are more Volts than Teslas. Only a poorly handled NHTSA test procedure of a post-testing handling of 2 cars caused a preventative incident.
In fact, the NHTSA admits this:
However, media coverage of the Volt fires makes the Tesla press seem very trivial in coverage. People to this day believe EV's are a fire risk due to over-zealous reporting before the facts where available to create a story from.
You might see Tesla as being "picked on", but in fact, Tesla gets more press per car, and more favorable press than virtually all cars sold today.
If Tesla is going to become mainstream, they need to prepare for the Media War Against Cars which have been in fashion since Ralph Nader got rich by trashing a car that handle much like a Porsche and other rear engine rwd cars. In the end, the Corvair handled better than most conventional front engine RWD cars. But it was too late. Ralphy had exaggerate the story for profit and killed a lot of jobs and made no effect on actual safety.