Tesla homeowners charging their autos on New 12 months’s Day at a Supercharger station in Baker, California witnessed a cell Supercharger burn to the bottom.

There is not any phrase on what began the hearth, however Electrek has reached out to the native hearth division and is ready for a response. 

These cell Supercharging stations are comprised of a mega pack on the again of a trailer with a number of Supercharging shops hooked up. Tesla usually employs them at significantly busy Supercharger areas through the holidays with a purpose to ease congestion and cut back ready instances. 

This time, although, the mega pack that caught hearth took down half of the Baker station’s 40 stalls with it, based on a Plugshare consumer. The picture above, shared by one other Plugshare consumer, reveals the harm was primarily contained to the megapack itself, however police tape may be seen cordoning off numerous the positioning’s close by everlasting Superchargers. 

So far as we all know, that is the primary time a cell Supercharger station has caught hearth, however not the primary time a megapack has caught hearth. A megapack at a big scale vitality storage challenge in Monterey, California caught hearth in 2019.