Firefighters used 50,000 gallons of water to put out a fire after a Tesla employee driving a 2024 Tesla Semi tractor crashed the truck on a California interstate last month and the vehicle caught on fire.

United States firefighters used 190,000 litres of water to extinguish a blaze involving an electric Tesla semi-truck this month following a crash, a government agency said. Besides water to cool the vehicle’s batteries,

The NTSB is still investigating the exact cause of the California fire, but we now know more details about what led to it and what it took to extinguish it

A Tesla Semi crash in California last month required firefighters to dump 50,000 gallons of water on the burning wreckage of the electric tractor-trailer in order to extinguish the fire, the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Thursday — and authorities were even forced to call in air support to waterbomb the vicinity to keep the fire from spreading.

California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.