Tesla battery fire in Placer County required 50,000 gallons of water to fight, NTSB says. Stock photo of a Tesla Semi truck. It took roughly 50,000 gallons of water and aerial drops of fire retardant ...

Now picture this: same EV truck slamming into a tree, igniting into an inferno that takes 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish ... that lithium-ion batteries don’t ignite as quickly as a tank of gas.

took about 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish. The Tesla semi was traveling from Livermore, Calif., to Tesla's Sparks Nevada facility. The crash and subsequent fire closed eastbound and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board reveals that the fire that devoured a Tesla Semi after it crashed last month turned out to be way worse than we first thought.

WASHINGTON -- California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety Board ...

As fire fighters battled to extinguish the towering flames, they utilized around 50,000 gallons of water and required fire retardant that was dropped onto the scene from an aircraft. The plane ...