It took 190,000 gallons of water and a jet from the air to extinguish a Tesla truck that caught fire

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It took 190,000 gallons of water and a jet from the air to extinguish a Tesla
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According to a preliminary report Friday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, a single-vehicle crash last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 190,000 liters of water as well as a plane to drop fire preventers from above.

The crash, which occurred in California west of Lake Tahoe, is being investigated by authorities. Firefighters' efforts to extinguish the flames cooled the vehicle's massive battery to keep it from re-igniting and prevented the fire from spreading beyond the crash site, authorities said.

The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was driven into the company's battery factory in Sparks, Nevada, from a warehouse in Livermore, California, the report said. The incident closed part of the I-80 freeway for 15 hours.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the semi truck design at an event in November 2017, promising it would hit the market in 2020. The company has not yet started producing trucks in high volume, but is building production lines in Nevada.


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