A Tesla Semi crashed and caught fire on a California highway

A Tesla Semi motortruck crashed into trees and caught occurrence disconnected the broadside of a road successful California aboriginal Monday, causing roadworthy closures connected I-80 for astir 16 hours. As reported by KCRA 3 News, Cal Fire crews archetypal headed to the clang tract adjacent the Nevada borderline aft 3AM section time.

Firefighters doused the Tesla Semi with thousands of gallons of h2o to chill its lithium-ion EV artillery battalion down to a manageable people somesthesia of astir 100 degrees Fahrenheit portion waiting for its cells to pain out. Around 4PM the unit got the batteries to a safer somesthesia and began enactment to determination what was near of the Semi to Tesla’s Gigafactory successful Sparks, Nevada. The road was afloat reopened aft 7PM.

California Highway Patrol told KCRA 3 that the operator of the Semi was taken to a infirmary aft walking distant from the crash. Now, authorities are investigating the origin of the crash, including whether the operator had fallen asleep. The Semi was operated by Tesla, which often uses the people 8 commercialized motortruck to haul freshly made EV batteries from the Gigafactory to its Fremont, California car manufacturing plant. In this case, it was not pulling a trailer, truthful it seems the Semi’s ain batteries were burning.

It’s not the archetypal clip large Tesla batteries person caught occurrence successful California. The company’s Megawatt vigor retention batteries went aflame astatine a section inferior successful 2022, shutting down portion of a highway.