Tesla Semi fire required 50,000 gallons of water to snuff out

A single-vehicle accident last month entailing a Tesla Semi electrical vehicle took 50,000 gallons of water to snuff out and needed airplane to unload fire resistant expenses, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The collision, which happened on California’s Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe, is being checked out by the NTSB. CAL Fire’s initiatives to produce the fires cooled down the lorry’s huge battery to maintain it from reigniting and avoided the fire from spreading out past the collision website, the NTSB stated.

The Tesla vehicle, driven by a staff member, was headed to the business’s battery manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada, from a storehouse in Livermore, California, the record stated. The event shut down component of the I-80 for 15 hours.

Tesla CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Elon Musk initially flaunted the Semi vehicle layout at an occasion in November 2017, guaranteeing it would certainly concern market in 2020. The business still has actually not begun generating the vehicles in high quantity, yet it is constructing out assembly line at its Nevada center.

“Preparation of Semi factory continues and is on track to begin production by end of 2025,” Tesla stated in its second-quarter incomes record in July.

The NTSB record verified that Tesla’s driver-assistance systems, which are marketed as Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in the united state, were not “operational” at the time of the Semi accident and fire.

Tesla did not reply to’s ask for remark.