Nuked The local fire department was able to extinguish the blaze. No one was injured, according to an incident report obtained by the verge.
The fire happened in the parking lot outside Canoo’s Torrance, California corporate office. It was once the startup’s headquarters – before it started calling Arkansas home in November.
Canoo’s VP of communications Agnes gomes-koizumi confirmed the fire occurred after the verge requested comment. The module passed the test and did not ignite.
Canoo announced a deal to use batteries from Panasonic subsidiary Sanyo in October. It’s unclear who made the batteries involved in the fire.
Canoo is working towards a goal of starting production on its electric vans in late 2022. It has also been losing its chief technology officer and two of the five remaining co-founders.
Faraday future’s preproduction vehicles caught fire in 2018. A prototype of Lordstown Motors’ electric pickup truck caught fire during a road test.
Canoo’s fire started in the cabin of the third-party vehicle. Lithium-Ion batteries were’transported’.
The fire department’s report says the fire did an estimated $ 45,000 worth of damage, including $ 10,000 in property damage. The remains of the batteries were placed in a’trash can filled with water’.
The fire department was on the scene for three and a half hours, though the report does n’t say how long it took to extinguish the blaze.
