Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months
A Tesla Megapack battery at a California substation caught fire early yesterday morning, prompting a shelter-in-place order and multiple road closures around the Moss Landing area of Monterey Bay.the North Monterey County Fire Department received a call about a burning Tesla Megapack at the Elkhorn Battery Storage facility, aPacific Gas and Electric facility co-managed by Tesla and in operation since April of this year.
According to fire chief Joel Mendoza, the battery burned quickly and cleanly, a rarity for such fires."The thing about these batteries is they burn for days, sometimes. In this particular case it burned rather quickly, in six hours or so," Mendoza said."We don't have any flame coming out of it. We're going to continue to see smoke; it's white smoke, not black dirty smoke.
As of 10 p.m. local time yesterday, roughly 20 hours after the fire was reported, Monterey County said the fire was
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