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At least 17 Tesla cars were destroyed after a fire broke out at a dealership on the outskirts of Rome on Monday morning, according to Italian fire officials. No one was at the dealership when the fire broke out and no injuries have been reported.
The fire comes after a string of reports across Italy in recent weeks of Tesla vehicles being vandalized and defaced, with anti-Elon Musk and anti-Donald Trump sentiments written with spray paint.
Another car dealership burned down in northern Rome a week ago, destroying 30 cars, including used Teslas.
Also in Rome, several Teslas in the Garbatella neighborhood were defaced, according to police and social media posts.
Tesla dealerships in Milan have also been targeted by environmental groups in recent weeks.
Reports of Tesla vandalism have also surfaced in France and various parts of the United States, including the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast.
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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.
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
Couldn’t have been. I was with the fire all night, we were miles away
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.
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”.
And nothing of value was lost.
The rides of March.
“Democrats did it.”
-Elon Musk.
If only Democrats were that cool, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
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.
Idiotic, you take the batteries out before you burn them.
17 dang, Is that a high score?
The article says another location had 30. So AFAIK that would be the high score.
Nice.
Is there a leaderboard somewhere online?
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.
I agree, I wouldn’t want to do either. But something like this is a lot more petty than they think it may be so it may not be worth doing unless you’re just going to go all out with it
