Firefighters needed 190,000 litres of water to douse a Tesla battery burning at 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit
Tesla Semi’s lithium-ion battery, resulting from a crash, required around 50,000 gallons or about 190,000 litres of water to extinguish. The incident took place on August 19 and is being investigated by the US's National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
According to the NTSB's preliminary report, the battery reached temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. As a safety measure, firefighters also used an aircraft to drop fire retardant around the truck.
The crash occurred near Interstate 80 at Emigrant Gap, approximately 70 miles northeast of Sacramento. NTSB investigators examined the fire risks linked to the truck's large battery. They confirmed that the truck was not operating on Tesla's partially automated driving systems, which «could not be engaged.»
The accident happened around 3:13 a.m. while a Tesla employee was driving the truck from Livermore, California, to a Tesla facility in Sparks, Nevada. The truck veered off the road and hit trees. The driver was uninjured.
After the crash, the Semi’s battery caught fire. Firefighters used water to cool the batteries, closing the freeway for 15 hours to ensure the batteries were safe for recovery. The truck was later moved to an open-air facility and monitored for 24 hours, with no reignition of the battery.
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