Those aren't fires, they are Roman Parking Lots.
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Oh well, what can you do? Rome is pretty hot this time of the year.
Who knew Teslsas would set on fire in hot temperatures.
its fine the cars committed suicide
The incident comes as CEO Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting efforts at DOGE have sparked a backlash against his EV maker.
No, the incident comes as Musk reveals he's a fucking Nazi. Quit the bullshit. Elon Musk is a Nazi. The DOGE stuff is icing on the Nazi cake.
It's not cost cutting when he's managed to waste half a trillion with his ineptitude
Agree. That is such an america centric view. Why would italians give enough fucks about DOGE to burn a Tesla store about it. Being a Nazi is what is our primary issue with Musk here in Europe.
I wish it was being taken seriously here. Many in America, including Democrats, think calling these maniacs traitors and Nazis is hyperbole/ rhetoric/ exaggerration/ propaganda, but it isnt. Its exactly what they are, and the sooner people understand and internalize that, the sooner we can purge them from our government.
you mean they're not burning teslas to protest the loss of our social welfare programs 🥺?
Doge/MAGA is also killing foreign aid and trying to kill nato and the EU too.
But he really is a Nazi and that’s more than enough to warrant this.
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My great grandfather was a hero. He along with others discovered the cure for fascism, and he helped so many poor souls afflicted by this terrible disease.
However, I don’t believe he foresaw the possibility that it could become a family tradition. I certainly hope not, but things are going to get so much worse.
He along with others discovered the cure for fascism.
One such cure makes an exceptionally satisfying "PING!" after every 8th dose administered.
There’s that darn 4th branch again, trying to manufacture the thoughts we think.
10 years from now, I hope we all remember how EVERY SINGLE mainstream news outlet refused to call what Musk did a Nazi salute. I hope that we can all see that they work solely for the billionaire class. And I hope that we can still see all that, even when they’re “on our side”.
Fuck America.
That's why it was so shocking when a judge recently compared them to Nazis, and even implied that the Mazis were kinder! Unfortunately, many MAGA Trairors woumd be proud of that.
Also, I have NEVER heard a news personality call any of them Traitors, despite an Insurrection, the False Electors Plot, hundreds of stolen classified documents, turning against our allies, smooching the world's worst authorities, etc.
By any objective measure, Agent Krasnov is the most prolific traitor in American history, more than all other American traitors COMBINED.
And yet not one talking news head has ever called him a Traitor.
Some of them are in protest, some are insurance fraud because teslas don't sell. Some just burn by themselves.
An economic, political, and safety liability all around.
Some malicious compliance if you want to get rid of your Tesla, and don't think anyone else should support them... Just set it on fire and blame vigilantes (I don't endorse this).
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Damn teslas are really explody
A charged Li-Ion battery aflame is no joke, as we saw when it was the Galaxy Note 7. It's a major concern for EVs catching fire in tunnels, parking garages, and ferries. They are SUPER HARD to extinguish- legacy techniques don't really work.
Another example: In August of 2012, an explosion and fire occurred in one of the lithium-polymer batteries on the Foss hybrid tug CAMPBELL FOSS. - the reinstallation report
Here's the report of the event itself: https://professionalmariner.com/battery-related-fire-damages-famed-hybrid-tug-puts-it-out-of-service/
A charged Li-Ion battery aflame is no joke, as we saw when it was the Galaxy Note 7. It’s a major concern for EVs catching fire in tunnels, parking garages, and ferries. They are SUPER HARD to extinguish- legacy techniques don’t really work.
Thank god, ol' smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.
Thank god, ol' smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.
You. Could. Not. Pay me...To get into that stupid friggin' tunnel. How on earth did that thing actually get built?!
The flooding potential is bad enough, but otherwise, it's not a matter of "if" people are gonna die horribly of fire or toxic inhalation in a confined concrete space with no escape, it's absolutely "when."
Ol’ smrty Musky won’t be blamed for the tragic accident. It would be some helpless fall person or Las Vegas.
Smrty Musky can’t be blamed for this.
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And this is why most corporations get rid of their CEOs if they become toxic to the brand. But Musk has placed people who are loyal to him on the board. That's how he stole the company from its original founders and this is how he'll be allowed to run the company into the ground as if he owned it.
Just like trump in the white house, we should experience similar trajectories. Maniac in charge sorrounded by yes men.
...but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.
I think it's quite telling that they're likely considering the strong possibility that these wonderous marvels of cost-cutting may have just spontaneously lit themselves ablaze without help, at rest, in a parking lot.
For a majority of other vehicles, that'd be an absurd conclusion. But Teslas contain a baffling amount of greed-motivated engineering and numerous fire incidents. It isn't talked about enough and I see more of these things by the day. There has to be some kind of "reputation management" going on.
Either way, remember kids! If you see someone setting an unoccupied swastikar ablaze...
No you didn't.
I bet all these fires are of the result of Elon Musk remotely catching them on fire. Which means two things. One he is losing money and needs a insurance payout. Two he is planting these as false flags in order to further trump agenda. They already want to label anyone who even vandalizes a tesla as a terrorist. Musk is doing this and its fucking terrifying how trump reacting.
"Engage Insurance Protocol X!"
There's a plausible case where either a very stupid OTA software update or a faulty charger could in fact cause a bunch of them to catch fire at once.
And nothing of value was lost
That's not true. The materials used to make those could have gone to something much more productive.
They already were wasted by making teslas
The lithium should burn to lithium oxide. So it should still be recycled to recover most or almost all of it.
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Well I have a pretty good idea of what the cause is...
maybe it was Nero?
Rome fiddled while Tesla burned. :)
Burn a few and get a little satisfaction. Burn some more and you get some more satisfaction. Burn 'em all and you get complete satisfaction.
New Olympic sport just dropped.
Why would the WOKE libs do this?
Oh this in Rome? Do they have woke libs?
Good. Fuck Musk and fuck any of his companies and cronies.
Sic semper tyrannus
I didn't see nuffin
The entirety of Rome was with me that night so they couldn't have done it.
Did anyone bring a fiddle?
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Oh so sorry to hear about your Swasticars that passed away. Here's five big booms.
Wow, there might be more Tesla's put of fire than there are Russians that fell out of a window now.
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