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4 Cybertrucks on Fire in a Seattle Holding Lot… Investigators Uncertain if Fires Caused by Arson or Spontaneous Battery Fire (fuelarc.com)

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Updated with video from reporters on-site at the bottom of the post! Late Sunday night, four Tesla Cybertrucks caught fire in a Seattle holding lot near 2nd Ave S & S Spokane St, just five minutes from the local Tesla dealership. Initially, reports indicated two burning Cybertrucks, but as the fire spread, the number grew to 4 Cybertrucks. Investigators have offered no details as to whether this was arson or another case of a Tesla Cybertruck bursting into flames spontaneously. See video from the scene in the full article.

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Musk found out that the most recent batch had battery issues where they would spontaneously explode.

So he paid a bunch of arsonists to go out an torch a bunch of Cybertrucks so that he could have plausible deniability.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe someone in the factory just created a few weak points when installing batteries?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Okay which one of you happened to pass by that lot?

[-] buwho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

arson shmarson

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Seems likely to be arson but guess we'll have to wait & see.

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