The front section of the Tesla Model S was completely destroyed in the incident on a US freeway
(Picture: Metro Fire of Sacramento)A Tesla Model S electric car spontaneously caught fire on a US freeway, a series of tweets by the Sacramento fire protection service showed.
The car was not involved in a collision and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District reported “nothing unusual prior” to the incident on January 29. However, more than 22,000 litres of water were needed to put out the fire from the battery as its “cells continued to combust”.
