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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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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
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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.
Couldn’t have been. I was with the fire all night, we were miles away
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.
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
And nothing of value was lost.
Definitely wasn’t the Italian Antifascists because none of the teslas where flipped upside down.
Beautiful.
Must have been act of god. Thoughts and prayers.
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.
Accidents happen.
I bet the fella from Fiat played a mean fiddle while Tesla of North Rome burned.
Shame
Tch tch tch, those damn self combusting, self immolating Teslas.
Someone should probably just ban them all, astoundingly unsafe, especially the cybertrucks.
