Firefighters battled a small fire at the Tesla Inc. plant on Thursday afternoon. in Fremont, California, responded.
“In an area of the factory property that is under construction, the deep-burning fire was produced in a sealing machine for vehicles,” the Fremont Fire Department said in an Instagram post Thursday night, referring to Tesla’s giant stamping machine, the so-called called Giga Press. ‘The cause of the fire is molten aluminum and hydraulic fluid. Hydraulic fluid was identified as the source of the fire. ”
No injuries were reported.
The video of a news helicopter shows the fire being extinguished while firefighters and Tesla workers stay away from the main factory building in a roof, open-air structure containing machinery. Light smoke safes were visible.
According to the news blog Electrek, the Giga Press is a giant casting machine that was installed at the Fremont factory last year and is used for stamping large pieces of body parts of vehicles. Electrek speculates that damage to the Giga Press may affect production, but to what extent is still unknown.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment or details, but also dissolved its media relations department last year.
The Fremont plant employs approximately 10,000 people and manufactures Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y electric vehicles.
Another small fire broke out at the facility in August 2018, causing no injuries and not affecting production.
The plant in Fremont was closed for two days last month due to what CEO Elon Musk called a ‘shortage of spare parts’.
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