A Tesla Model S caught fire three weeks after it was involved in an accident and was taken to a landfill.

Firefighters found it difficult to put out the fire and ended up breaking the battery.

The Sacramento Metro Fire Department explained that it sent crews to extinguish the fire of a vehicle in a 'car graveyard', Telegrafi reports.

When they got there, firefighters found a burnt Model S which had been wrecked in an unrelated fire accident about three weeks ago.

It is not yet known why the electric sedan caught fire after almost a month.

Crews arrived to our first Tesla fire.

It was involved in an accident 3 wks ago, and was parked in a wrecking yard.

Crews knocked the fire down but it kept reigniting / off-gassing in the battery compartment.

Crews created a pit, placed the car inside, and filled the pit with water pic.twitter.com/Lz5b5770lO

- Metro Fire of Sacramento (@metrofirepio) June 12, 2022