Tesla Semi
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A collision involving a car last month Tesla The semi-electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to put out, requiring the plane to drop fire retardant, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday.
The crash on Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe, California, is under investigation by the NTSB. CAL-Fire’s efforts to extinguish the flames cooled the car’s large battery, preventing it from reigniting and preventing the fire from spreading beyond the crash site, the NTSB said.
A Tesla truck driven by an employee was on its way from a warehouse in Livermore, California to the company’s battery factory in Sparks, Nevada, the report said. The incident closed a portion of I-80 for 15 hours.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first showed the design of the Semi truck at an event in November 2017, promising that it will be on the market in 2020. The company has yet to begin mass production of the trucks, but is building production lines in Nevada. object.
“The semi-factory is well under way and on track to begin production by the end of 2025,” Tesla said in its second-quarter earnings report in July.
The NTSB report confirmed that Tesla’s U.S. marketed driver assistance systems, such as Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised), were not “functional” during the Semi crash and fire.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.
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