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Summary
A fire at a Tesla dealership in Rome’s Torre Angela district early Monday destroyed 17 cars and damaged the building. No injuries were reported, but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.
The incident follows recent Tesla vandalism in Rome amid rising backlash against Elon Musk’s leadership and cost-cutting at DOGE.
Tesla has faced arson, protests, and boycott calls across the US and Europe.
The company’s stock fell 5% Monday, down 34% this year, with sales dropping sharply in both the US and Europe.
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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).
Better malicious compliance would be protestors videotaping every dealership to catch and report insurance fraud.
Insurance fraud?
Dealer torches their own stock that they can’t sell, blames protestors, and gets to write off all those cars with insurance payouts instead of just sitting on them
I’m guessing they mean catching dealerships setting their own vehicles ablaze to claim insurance money.
I don’t see that happening really though, sadly in my locale, these stupid jellybean caskets are selling and there’s more clogging up the roads by the day.
And nothing of value was lost
That’s not true. The materials used to make those could have gone to something much more productive.
The lithium should burn to lithium oxide. So it should still be recycled to recover most or almost all of it.
They already were wasted by making teslas
Opportunity costs.
…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, ::: spoiler 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.
Why would the WOKE libs do this?
Oh this in Rome? Do they have woke libs?
New Olympic sport just dropped.
maybe it was Nero?
Rome fiddled while Tesla burned. :)
Oh so sorry to hear about your Swasticars that passed away. Here’s five big booms.
DDR Announcer Voice: “Good Good Keep on going!”
Did anyone bring a fiddle?
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.
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.
Tarrifed Teslas
Always enjoy these headlines 🍿
its fine the cars committed suicide
