Updated with video from reporters on-site at the bottom of the post! Late Sunday night, four Tesla Cybertrucks caught fire in a Seattle holding lot near 2nd Ave S & S Spokane St, just five minutes from the local Tesla dealership. Initially, reports indicated two burning Cybertrucks, but as the fire spread, the number grew to 4 Cybertrucks. Investigators have offered no details as to whether this was arson or another case of a Tesla Cybertruck bursting into flames spontaneously. See video from the scene in the full article.
Either possibility is equally funny!
it’s probably from the Twitter cyber attack
CYBER attack, CYBER truck.
Yes. Yes I see.
Ukraine is getting really good at this! /s
The irony considering they’d be doing it with Starlink connections is amusing to consider.
“Hello, police? Someone is DDOSing my vehicle.”
It’s funny either way. In case it’s arson, though, I hope whoever did it gets away clean.
Whoever it was was with me all day
Same. It was a great day, and their alibi is rock solid.
I love that the truck is so shitty we don’t know if ppl blowing them up or they blowing themselves up.
Designed so bad they commit seppuku.
Seems likely to be arson but guess we’ll have to wait & see.
I’m on the fence… literally!
The vehicles that burned were against the fence. That is a piece of evidence in favor of arson, a random fire has high probability of igniting a harder-to-reach vehicle. Also, the ATF was on the scene. A responsible adult (like the Seattle FIU investigator who was dispatched last night to the scene) called in the feds, and they only do that when they suspect a bomb… or when they want to VERY STRONGLY rule out a bomb.
On the other hand, there’s been no preliminary announcement. Elon couldn’t keep it to himself when the Las Vegas Cybertruck detonated, he announced it was a bomb the same day. To avoid speculation that it was just a spontaneous battery fire, like Teslas are well documented to have. Given the absolute shitshow that is going on with Tesla’s stock price, if there was ANY plausible way to claim that it was arson, the investigators would be under maximum pressure to do so and do so quickly.
My gut? We would have video of the arsonists if it were arson, and Elon would be trying to link them to anything political-looking in public. No video means either no arsonists, or very sneaky arsonists, which usually they aren’t. Occam’s Razor makes me wonder about the build quality of those recently built Cybertrucks, particularly their battery packs. Apparently Cybertrucks are idling in their thousands on Tesla lots nationwide. It was just a numbers game until another one ignited itself like that one in Georgia did.
Time will tell.
Time will tell.
Yeah. And with luck, it’ll be only after lots more fires burn up these ugly cars that symbolize billionaires living without consequences.
Really, we all win, on this one.
My gut? We would have video of the arsonists if it were arson, and Elon would be trying to link them to anything political-looking in public.
They wouldn’t have video if they’re trying to collect insurance on unsold cyber trucks. It’s probably coming from inside the house this time.
I hadn’t considered that possibility! Would you look at that, Ukrainians hacked in and wiped all the security footage.
Maybe they became self aware and could no longer live with themselves knowing their family history.
Daddy said he loves em, but is negligent.
This tracks.
No. Only trains track and Teslas aren’t trains.
“Cybertruck” is too normal to be the name of one of Musk’s kids
Okay which one of you happened to pass by that lot?
arson shmarson
Don’t name your car a Tesla and then be surprised when the battery arcs
I’m shocked they didn’t just leap to arson and are considering other things. Teslas are known to randomly catch on fire.
Maybe someone in the factory just created a few weak points when installing batteries?
Definitely for sure a spontaneous battery fire. Couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to commit arson on some low-poly neofash shitboxes. No sir.
But wait…what if…and hear me out here…what if they caught fire as a result of people rebelling against a facist takeover of our government?
What if…
America? Becoming fascist? That seems super, super impossible. Our current president, who dresses like an orange, and is a convicted felon and sexual molester, would never allow something so heinous. He works so hard for us. Did you see the great job he did raising the price of eggs? If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.
Far more likely that they set on fire because they are poorly designed an Musky boy is dismantling any and all safety regulations for his death traps.
Man I hate Tesla more than most but it is far far less likely to just have spontaneous battery fires, especially on an older brand like Tesla. I know we all love to hate on them (cyber truck in particular), but seriously spontaneous battery fires are insanely uncommon.
There are about 35,000 or so Cybertrucks that exist.
The last one that spontaneously burst into flames on a dealer lot was about 60 days ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1hs7d52/a_tesla_cybertruck_burned_down_at_tesla_lot_in/
I wouldn’t call that insanely uncommon, I don’t think. There might be something about this model that makes it more prone to fires than your average Tesla.
Spontaneous battery fires are insanely uncommon when you’re using well made, well tested, reliable battery technology with good safety protections. Tesla is batting 0 for 4 there. Miss any of those four and your chances of fire increase exponentially. Miss ALL four and it’s basically guaranteed.
And if anyone saw any evidence to the contrary… No we didn’t.
At this point? Insurance money
Are your cars shit or do people really fucking hate you?.. Or both. Imma go with both.
Sounds like you’ve (Musk) got big problems if you’re not sure which is the right answer.
This cracked me up so hard. The videographer knew what the were doing.
Pffft, you got a link to that video? That HAD to be intentional.
I didn’t realize it’s Komo, they’re owned by Sinclair. For those of you who don’t know, they’re super Christian Nationalist. https://komonews.com/news/local/four-tesla-cybertrucks-destroyed-in-fire-in-seattles-sodo-neighborhood-elon-musk-doge-federal-jobs-cut-protests-seattle-fire-department-investigation
That makes the framing of this thumbnail even more legendary.
Devil child, devil child!
I wish billboards were illegal. 1, they are distracting while driving and 2, this is a load of crap. There is not any evidence that god exists.
They’re illegal in Maine. I never saw one outside of television until i was fully an adult.
T.I.L.
Seriously. Billboards going away would restore so much beauty to the world.
Musk found out that the most recent batch had battery issues where they would spontaneously explode.
So he paid a bunch of arsonists to go out an torch a bunch of Cybertrucks so that he could have plausible deniability.
