It's actually astonishing how fast Tesla went from the most sought-after brand to becoming the most hated brand.
There are going to be case studies on this for centuries in all kinds of sciences.
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It's vaguely comforting to see that as everything seems like utter madness and history lurching in the wrong direction, it basically took one display of open Nazi support to have most of the world tell elon to fuck off
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I think the dealership fires and vandalism are insider jobs. The dealers have unsellable merchandise. An insurance payout is about the best they could hope for.
Also shitty cars they can't fix if they break. A burned tesla is a sold tesla where they don't have to pretend to work on. Now they can build even shittier cars, because they go off in flames anyway.
But it would translate into higher premiums going forwards. Doesn't seem like sustainable business practice.
If they make higher premiums specific for teslas, then those dealerships can just stop working with teslas.
Tesla owns their dealerships rather than franchising them. Either way, higher premiums or less Tesla dealers is a win win
Couldn't have been. I was with the fire all night, we were miles away
The rides of March.
Those Tesla batteries are spontaneously combusting now?
Yes.
This is completely unrelated to panels falling off of their incel-camino model.
I think those have fireball batteries as well.
Must have been act of god. Thoughts and prayers.
My guess is that Tesla managers decided it's better to cash out the insurance money instead of storing the (swasti)cars that almost nobody will buy. And you can always blame the anti Musk "terrorists".
Swasticars…. I like it
Insurance scam.
Pretty sure I saw a news report lately about Teslas getting burned in a wildfire, and IIRC, the batteries were exploding violently and scattering hazardous waste.
“Democrats did it.”
-Elon Musk.
If only Democrats were that cool, we wouldn't be in this situation.
Idiotic, you take the batteries out before you burn them.
If these batteries weren't glued in the dumbest way possible, they would put them without batteries on the lot. That would be a win win. You could burn a tesla with less pollution and it's easier to extinguish
yea, all these batteries.. I want for my solar system =[
And nothing of value was lost.
17 dang, Is that a high score?
The article says another location had 30. So AFAIK that would be the high score.
The 100 mark is reachable
Nice.
Is there a leaderboard somewhere online?
Accidents happen.
Elons going deep into the k hole after this one
If we're lucky, he'll go visit Matthew Perry.
Kinda disrespectful to Matthew Perry to say they'll meet in the same place, which I assume for Musk is Satan's unwashed taint.
Hitting a production line would be way more costly for k hole boy
But also a lot more difficult and dangerous to get access to the factory and destroy machinery than it is to set a few cars on fire in a parking lot.
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Definitely wasn't the Italian Antifascists because none of the teslas where flipped upside down.
It's over. Not even the US government can save him now!
I'm surprised Trump and Musk aren't up in arms about the "car body count". "Won't somebody think of the children... We want to put to work--on overnight shifts, on school nights--making cars like this!"
They are. Trump's DOJ is trying to charge people with terrorism and hate crimes for defacing a Tesla.
Tch tch tch, those damn self combusting, self immolating Teslas.
Someone should probably just ban them all, astoundingly unsafe, especially the cybertrucks.
They just do that by themselves
How?
It is the viking funeral feature
🥲
I bet the fella from Fiat played a mean fiddle while Tesla of North Rome burned.
Shame
Not those Teslas sure do have a self combustion problem...
Beautiful.
Typical Roman suppression against Illyrians again. Tsk Tsk.
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