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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Insurance scam.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

The rides of March.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's actually astonishing how fast Tesla went from the most sought-after brand to becoming the most hated brand.

There are going to be case studies on this for centuries in all kinds of sciences.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

It's vaguely comforting to see that as everything seems like utter madness and history lurching in the wrong direction, it basically took one display of open Nazi support to have most of the world tell elon to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the dealership fires and vandalism are insider jobs. The dealers have unsellable merchandise. An insurance payout is about the best they could hope for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Also shitty cars they can't fix if they break. A burned tesla is a sold tesla where they don't have to pretend to work on. Now they can build even shittier cars, because they go off in flames anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

But it would translate into higher premiums going forwards. Doesn't seem like sustainable business practice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If they make higher premiums specific for teslas, then those dealerships can just stop working with teslas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Tesla owns their dealerships rather than franchising them. Either way, higher premiums or less Tesla dealers is a win win

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idiotic, you take the batteries out before you burn them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

yea, all these batteries.. I want for my solar system =[

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago

Couldn't have been. I was with the fire all night, we were miles away

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure I saw a news report lately about Teslas getting burned in a wildfire, and IIRC, the batteries were exploding violently and scattering hazardous waste.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those Tesla batteries are spontaneously combusting now?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Yes.

This is completely unrelated to panels falling off of their incel-camino model.

I think those have fireball batteries as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

17 dang, Is that a high score?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The article says another location had 30. So AFAIK that would be the high score.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Is there a leaderboard somewhere online?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

The 100 mark is reachable

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

Must have been act of god. Thoughts and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My guess is that Tesla managers decided it's better to cash out the insurance money instead of storing the (swasti)cars that almost nobody will buy. And you can always blame the anti Musk "terrorists".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Swasticars…. I like it

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Democrats did it.”

-Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

If only Democrats were that cool, we wouldn't be in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Accidents happen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's over. Not even the US government can save him now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They just do that by themselves

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elons going deep into the k hole after this one

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we're lucky, he'll go visit Matthew Perry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Kinda disrespectful to Matthew Perry to say they'll meet in the same place, which I assume for Musk is Satan's unwashed taint.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hitting a production line would be way more costly for k hole boy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Definitely wasn't the Italian Antifascists because none of the teslas where flipped upside down.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

They are. Trump's DOJ is trying to charge people with terrorism and hate crimes for defacing a Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Tch tch tch, those damn self combusting, self immolating Teslas.

Someone should probably just ban them all, astoundingly unsafe, especially the cybertrucks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I bet the fella from Fiat played a mean fiddle while Tesla of North Rome burned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Not those Teslas sure do have a self combustion problem...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Typical Roman suppression against Illyrians again. Tsk Tsk.

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