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3 Cybertrucks Caught Fire After Underbody Strikes. Tesla Now Sells a $3,500 Battery Shield Upgrade. (fuelarc.com)
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I mean, I'm glad Tesla built a fix, but it's sort of tacky to ship a $75,000+ truck and then sell the fireproofing separately.

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[–] 105 points 2 months ago (7 children)

In a functioning society, these things would have been recalled a dozen times by now. But the owner of the company is frenemies with the fucking president so we just have to live with fire bomb hazards driving on our streets

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 2 months ago

    I was just thinking... last time this happened, in 2013, the NHTSA investigated 2 fires and Tesla issued a free fix.

    I wonder what changed to make Tesla fear the NHTSA so little? :>

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But the owner of the company is frenemies with the fucking president

    Enemies? That whole feud was faked to save Tesla. People were boycotting them very successfully. Musk continues to work helping trump including again paying to help in midterms.

    Unfortunately this stunt worked.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 month ago

    "this stunt worked" is relative.

    Look at their sales chart. By comparison, Toyota moved 11-12 million.

    Gravity is inevitable. 1.5 million units a year is a unsustainable failure if the stock price is $300+. They need to multiply it by something insane like 20x for the stock price to make sense.

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