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Tesla semi-truck fire prompts I-80 closure in California as hazmat response halts Sierra Nevada freeway traffic

A Tesla big rig that caught fire kept both directions of California’s Interstate 80 closed in the Sierra Nevada for hours on Monday.

Cal Fire crews responded to the scene of an electric semi-truck fire around 3 a.m. near Emigrant Gap. California Highway Patrol later confirmed they were dealing with a hazardous materials situation due to potentially toxic fumes from the big rig’s batteries.

First responders say that the batteries of the electric big rig were still burning hours later.

TheWeirdestCunt ,

Wait they actually released that thing? I thought they dropped the semi truck design?

unexposedhazard ,

Maybe it was just out for a test run, who knows, im too lazy to spend time looking into what tesla does.

hddsx ,

My reaction exactly lol

Addv4 ,

Nah, they’ve just been really slow about testing it. It’s range is actually pretty impressive, but it requires very high energy superchargers on testing routes.

mosiacmango , (edited )

Range is one thing, as is acceleration, but the issue all electric semis have is haul weight. They are all bad at actually hauling goods. They have to give up 5-10k in goods carried for each truck, at least. With a standard semi hauling 80k, that’s a huge amount of lost capacity. The actual carrying capacity of the Tesla Semi is one of the data points that they won’t release, which tells you its not something they want people to know.

Semis are the good use case for clean hydrogen. Batteries won’t fly without radically different chemistries.

navi ,
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There delivered at least a couple hundred to Pepsi and Fritolay but have been heavily iterating in the design.

gothic_lemons ,

Engineer: We can’t just put the self driving data from the Cybertruck into the semi truck. They handle compelety differently. Turning radius, weight distribution, acceleration, braking all different.

Elon: Shut physics cuck and make it happen

itsgroundhogdayagain ,

I’m all for electric but Tesla is a disaster when it comes to quality and reliability.

catloaf ,

Do these things use lithium batteries? Do the sodium ones pose less of a hazard if compromised?

ASDraptor ,

AFAIK, lithium becomes inflammable when in contact with the air (that’s why a battery puncture is so dangerous). Sodium doesn’t, so a fire from a hole in the battery shouldn’t happen.

dustyData ,

My understanding is that it is not the air, but moisture. Water reacts with the battery chemistry to emit heat which can then turn into flames. But moisture on the air can be enough to trigger a fire. There are videos testing this on YouTube. Puncturing a battery is not instant fire, but it will turn into a fire if exposed for long enough, and water will only feed the chemical reaction, making it worse. Which is why it is so hard to fight battery fires.

frankgrimeszz ,

Operating as intended.

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