Tesla Mobile Supercharger Burns Down On New Year's Day

Car owners at a crowded Supercharger station in California witnessed the fire firsthand.

By: John Neff

Jan 4, 2023 at 7:13pm ET

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Tesla owners charging their vehicles on New Year's Day at a Supercharger station in Baker, California witnessed a mobile Supercharger burn to the ground.

There's no word on what started the fire, but Electrek has reached out to the local fire department and is waiting for a response.

These mobile Supercharging stations are comprised of a mega pack on the back of a trailer with multiple Supercharging outlets attached. Tesla often employs them at particularly busy Supercharger locations during the holidays in order to ease congestion and reduce waiting times.

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This time, though, the mega pack that caught fire took down half of the Baker station's 40 stalls with it, according to a Plugshare user. The image above, shared by another Plugshare user, shows the damage was mainly contained to the megapack itself, but police tape can be seen cordoning off a large number of the site's nearby permanent Superchargers.

As far as we know, this is the first time a mobile Supercharger station has caught fire, but not the first time a megapack has caught fire. A megapack at a large scale energy storage project in Monterey, California caught fire in 2019.

Source: Plugshare via Electrek