What I’m hearing is destroy ALL the Teslas.

Tesla has much higher output than the number of vehicles that spontaneously combust. So the supply shortage you envision won’t occur unless cars light up by the hundreds or thousands a day. And that’s before accounting for all the extra slack in production created by decreasing demand around the world.

Teslas combusting damages the brand. It’s a material risk of owning a Tesla. It would also mean higher insurance. In fact beyond some combustion threshold, Teslas would become uninsurable. Therefore Teslas on fire directly contributes to decreasing Elon’s purchase power.

In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it’ll be harder to get people in the door if they’re strip searching everyone and if they can’t have as much inventory on the lot, customers can’t drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.

I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.

They’ve become sentient, and are committing suicide.

LoL 😂

The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.

In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”

Could be insurance fraud too.

I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn’t just do that? or that this wasn’t a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?

Exactly 🤣🔥

Arguably making it a bad to own tesla would cost the company a lot more faster since nobody would want any of them. It is kinda assholish since people bought those terrible piles of garbage since they were told they were green and rich people luxury flex, while they refused to do their research about the vehicle and its innumerable issues.

Honestly dumping the bank owned car you keep in your yard for appearances for cheap would be a good idea since tesla will kill you in an otherwise survivable accident and it will turn off autopilot microseconds before crash in order to blame you.

I’d be surprised if he did. He sees Teslas as an extension of himself. Which is why it’s so very effective at upsetting him whenever people do stuff like this.

Great way to get rid of rotting inventory and recoup costs through insurance.

I’d set it on fire and make an insurance claim.