{"id":9563,"date":"2024-09-14T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/tesla-semi-fire-in-california-took-50000-gallons-of-water-to-extinguish\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T11:00:46","slug":"tesla-semi-fire-in-california-took-50000-gallons-of-water-to-extinguish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/tesla-semi-fire-in-california-took-50000-gallons-of-water-to-extinguish\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Semi fire in California took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A single-vehicle collision last month involving a\u00a0Tesla\u00a0Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a\u00a0preliminary report\u00a0on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash, which occurred on California\u2019s Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe, is being investigated by the NTSB. CAL Fire\u2019s efforts to put out the flames cooled the vehicle\u2019s massive battery to keep it from reigniting and prevented the fire from spreading beyond the crash site, the NTSB said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the company\u2019s battery factory in Sparks, Nevada, from a warehouse in Livermore, California, the report said. The incident closed down part of the I-80 for 15 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tesla CEO\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0first showed off the Semi truck design at an event in November 2017, promising it would come to market in 2020. The company still has not started producing the trucks in high volume, but it is building out production lines at its Nevada facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPreparation of Semi factory continues and is on track to begin production by end of 2025,\u201d Tesla said in its\u00a0second-quarter\u00a0earnings report in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The NTSB report confirmed that Tesla\u2019s driver-assistance systems, which are marketed as Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in the U.S., were not \u201coperational\u201d at the time of the Semi collision and fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tesla did not respond to CNBC\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single-vehicle collision last month involving a\u00a0Tesla\u00a0Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a\u00a0preliminary report\u00a0on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The crash, which occurred on California\u2019s Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe, is being investigated by the NTSB. CAL Fire\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}