Palo Alto Weekly5d
Fire inspector: Tesla battery ignited August fire at Palo Alto car dealerships
The spontaneous combustion of faulty Tesla lithium-ion batteries ... Battery cells that were ejected from battery packs during an early-morning fire at two car dealerships in the 4100 block ...
Burning Teslas in LA add toxic barriers to wildfire cleanup
The Palisades fire wreaked significant havoc on the nearby city of Malibu. In an interview, Mayor Doug Stewart said that the ...
Crashes and Disasters
As the smoke clears from devastating Los Angeles wildfires, efforts to clean up the affected areas are being complicated by ...
Jalopnik18d
Abandoned EV Batteries Could Make The LA Fire Cleanup A Nightmare
“All of these houses burned because fire was moving through ... with batteries — not just car batteries, but battery packs, people with solar, those Tesla wall batteries and the like ...
Police Investigate Possible Arson Attack At Tesla Store In Oregon
The police suspect it was a deliberate action rather than the EV self-combusting due to the Tesla store's front door being ...
Business Insider15d
A major fire at one of the world's largest battery storage plants was a 'wake-up call' for the industry, official says
A major fire broke out Thursday at one of ... One of the batteries at Moss Landing, the Elkhorn Battery, was built in partnership with Tesla. The system uses Tesla Megapack battery units, ...
news10nbc1mon
Tesla Cybertruck fire took over an hour to put out; Local fire department speaks about challenges with EV fires
HENRIETTA, N.Y.— In light of the recent Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas, News10NBC spoke to a local fire ... car fires would require 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of water. “The battery packs ...