Nikola is recalling all 209 of its battery-electric semitrucks after a June fire was traced to a truck's battery pack.
late Friday that a third-party investigation found that a coolant leak inside a battery pack was likely responsible for a fire in a truck parked at the company's Phoenix headquarters on June 23. That fire spread to other nearby trucks, destroying five.
Nikola had originally suspected that the trucks were deliberately set on fire in an act of vandalism. It now believes that "foul play or other external factors were unlikely to have caused the incident," it said in its Friday night statement. A second truck used by the company's engineering team had a similar battery-pack malfunction on Aug. 10, though the problem was caught before it became a major fire, Nikola said.
Following the third-party report, Nikola's own engineers determined that a component in the battery pack, manufactured by an outside supplier, is the likely culprit. It expects to have a repair available soon.Nikola is remotely monitoring all of its battery-electric trucks for signs of a similar defect.
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