Multiple electric trucks burnt at Nikola Motor Co.’s Phoenix HQ in what company claims was foul play

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UPDATED: Multiple electric trucks burnt at Nikola Motor Co.’s Phoenix HQ in what company claims was foul play

After multiple of its electric battery-powered trucks caught fire Friday morning at their Phoenix headquarters, the“Early this morning behind our Phoenix headquarters, a fire occurred which affected multiple battery electric trucks. No one has been injured. Foul play is suspected as a vehicle was seen in the area of the affected trucks just prior to the incident and an investigation is underway,” the company wrote on Twitter.

Only 63 Nikola Motors trucks were made in total in the first three months of 2023, with 31 of those being delivered to dealers according to Reuters.and Tempe, Arizona fire departments arrived at the scene to put out the fire after receiving reports of the incident at around 4:30 a.m. local time. “In situations like this, there’s thermal runaway, which is an uncontrollable self-heating state,” These are extremely hard to extinguish,” Phoenix Fire Department Captain Todd Keller told KPHO-TV.

 

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