In case of fire, Tesla advises responders not to "submerge vehicle to extinguish/cool ... gallons of water — roughly 40 times as much as is needed to put out a combustion engine car.

A car crashed into a fire hydrant in Florence Monday, causing water to shoot up about 30 feet into the air.It happened around 11 a.m. when Florence Police said a car hit a fire hydrant at the ...

The thousands of gallons of water were used to “extinguish the flames and cool the vehicle’s batteries,” the report read. The fire broke out around 3:13 p.m. on Aug. 19 on Interstate 80 in ...

Cars and trucks catch on fire all the time due to accidents ... firefighting methods — i.e. pouring some water on a blaze to cool and suffocate it — because the integrated components of ...

The two firefighters witnessed the incident and immediately jumped into action, said the Gloucester Fire Department Gloucester Fire Dept. Gloucester, Mass., authorities said a car containing three ...

“USE OF FIREFIGHTING FOAM IS NOT RECOMMENDED AND ONLY WATER SHOULD BE USED TO COOL THE BATTERY ... keeping a vehicle fire going much longer than a traditional gas car, and allowing a battery ...

IT’ Three passengers were rescued after a car plunged into the water at a park in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the city's fire department said Sunday. The car went into the water at St. Peter's ...