A blaze at a massive Tesla battery site in Australia that started three days ago was brought under control on Monday.
A fire from a 13-tonne lithium battery unit at a Tesla battery site in Australia.VICTORIA - A blaze at a massive Tesla battery site in Australia that started three days ago was brought under control on Monday, firefighters said.
A 13-tonne lithium battery inside a shipping container had caught fire at the site near Geelong, about an hour's drive from Australia's second city Melbourne, the Country Fire Service said. The battery site -- one of the largest in the world -- is designed to store energy produced by renewables and send power to the gridImages released by the CFA showed a cloud of smoke rising from one of the units at the site."Firefighters have successfully completed the operation of opening all doors to the container of the battery, with no sign of fire," the CFA said in an update.
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