A Tesla Mannequin S P100D was destroyed after catching hearth at a service heart in Marietta, Georgia earlier within the week.

Particulars concerning the blaze are restricted and whereas the Metropolis of Marietta web page on Fb shared photographs of the Tesla to its Fb web page, it didn’t reveal what triggered the hearth.

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These photographs counsel that the electrical sedan’s battery caught hearth whereas it was parked on the service heart. Many of the injury performed to the automotive seems to be concentrated across the cabin and the motive force’s aspect, maybe suggesting that is the place the hearth originated from.

Regardless of the cause, it seems as if hearth crews arrived on the scene fairly shortly as they managed to extinguish the hearth earlier than it engulfed every bit of bodywork or unfold to a Mannequin 3 that was parked close by. Hearth crews even lifted the EV onto wood blocks so they might get higher entry to the battery and direct a powerful stream of water into it to cease the flames and funky the battery.

This isn’t an remoted incident, neither is it confined to Tesla. Many automotive producers are spending hundreds of thousands in recalling EVs that face related points. Main recollects have impacted autos together with the Chevrolet Bolt, Porsche Taycan, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Ford Kuga PHEV, and the Hyundai Kona EV. Tesla additionally needed to pay $163 million for refusing to switch batteries beneath guarantee that misplaced greater than half of their vary in simply six years.