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some_guy ,

What a pile of garbage.

ohellidk ,

It was once a flaming pile of garbage!

expatriado ,

a dumpster fire

someguy3 ,

Before that a rolling pile of garbage.

MeekerThanBeaker ,

And unlike the Millennium Falcon, the garbage will not do.

shutz ,

She’s worth .5 of the original price. At most.

CaptPretentious ,

I’ve seen two in person (possible, same one just twice). It was bigger and dumber looking than I thought it would be. The style contrasts with literally everything around it. In every possible way, it looks unfinished in a way no video or photo ever conveyed.

Rentlar ,

Yikes. Appears that this one might have caught fire?

partial_accumen ,

I looks like there was fire, but it doesn’t look like it came from where the battery is. The battery runs from front to back on the bottom of the vehicle. This looks like the fire was only at the front. So perhaps whatever was impacted caught on fire but the battery never ignited perhaps?

expatriado ,

the battery can provide the energy to start a fire somewhere else in the vehicle via short circuit connection

nomous ,

Reaching a bit there, what’s located at the right/passenger side that would burn?

Noodle07 ,

A Samsung tablet

partial_accumen ,

Tesla’s have a pyrofuse that blows on impact detection which disconnects the battery:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a40448a5-4ac4-46dd-8d45-bf5c98c26084.png

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

The High Voltage battery has a pyrofuse that blows to isolate the battery in case of a crash.

Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.

partial_accumen ,

Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.

And modern Tesla vehicles, like the Cybertruck don’t use a standard car lead acid car battery (which would have 48Ah or so). Instead they use a 16v small lithium battery (which has only 6.9Ah). Further, this battery system has short protection built into it with an auto resetting breaker.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c3eb3a3d-1fee-43bd-b81c-b4d62d2104fc.png

So this battery, with its significantly less energy stored, has less chance of fire from a short than a standard car battery.

EldritchFeminity ,

It’s impossible to tell from a single photo, but it looks like the fire was possibly localized to the wheel-well. I can’t think of anything that might ignite in there, though.

Brunbrun6766 ,
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

I hate this truck as much as the next guy but, isn’t this what any and every car looks like after a fire?

Empricorn ,

It’s… 1 year old. You don’t often find so many reports, news stories, and images of a brand-new $80,000+ vehicle deteriorated or self-immolated a single year later.

ch00f ,

EVs tend to look like https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e672558e-6f1e-45cd-9330-d07f81d03cd3.jpeg this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.

Empricorn ,

I’m sorry, are you suggesting that people are spending 6 figures purchasing, then destroying these vehicles… as a meme??

hemko ,

No but could be a fire unrelated to the trucks electronics, or one that was well contained either by design or more likely a lucky accident

But yes I’ve also seen videos of people shooting at cybertrucks so who tf knows maybe???

ch00f ,

In case you’re not being sarcastic, Whistlindiesel…

But they’ve also been the target of some vandalism.

ech ,

Continue to stay away from youtube. It’s a dark place.

Empricorn ,

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

ech ,

I figure if you’re not aware of the stupid “pranks” influencers are pulling on youtube, you just don’t visit, and that’s probably in your best interest.

SLVRDRGN ,

Is there a reason the car looks like it’s giving up its physical body and becoming a spectral?

ch00f ,

Water. Best way to put out an EV fire is to keep dousing it with water until it cools down enough to not be on fire.

deranger ,

I try not to go to Reddit so much, but the CyberStuck sub is pretty good and not replicated elsewhere. There are so many problems with these vehicles it’s astonishing. They aren’t nearly as capable as they were touted to be, either.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

You also don’t have a ton of idiots doing stupid things to make their vehicle have issues intentionally usually either.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube videos of people purposely putting the vehicle in extreme situations and situations it wasn’t intended for. Not to mention the ones just doing it because “Fuck Elon”, after paying $100k for the vehicle, because they’ll get the money back from YouTube ads on videos milking it as much as possible.

I’m not saying all the videos are that, many are legitimate reviews and tests. But a lot are also purposely trying to damage it.

elgordino ,

Was it left outside in the rain?

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

I think they tried to drive it through a car wash and it started on fire.

BruceTwarzen ,

There is the problem, you’re not supposed to drive them

Thebeardedsinglemalt ,

Nah, it was just a late summer day with middling humidity

SouthFresh ,
@SouthFresh@lemmy.ml avatar

From the damage present in the picture, it almost looks like they tried to drive it.

Hubi ,
@Hubi@feddit.org avatar

Can’t be, driving it voids the warranty

Thebeardedsinglemalt ,

Buying probably voids the warranty

taiyang ,

Reminds me, it’s my first day back teaching classes and the usual cyber truck I see on the commute is gone. Students and I used to make fun of it before class, I wonder what happened to it…

TheLowestStone ,
@TheLowestStone@lemmy.world avatar

It probably got wet.

CeruleanRuin ,

And that one just rolled off the production line a month ago.

MelonYellow ,
@MelonYellow@lemmy.ca avatar

I see them more often in the SF bay area. They look clunky and ridiculous, plus they draw so much attention (when you should probably being trying to avoid attention).

peopleproblems ,

My son LOVES Cybertrucks.

He’s 7 though, so I imagine not the market Musk was targeting

aphlamingphoenix ,

There’s one I see around town often enough. I was parked at a red light next to it the other day and it was remarkable how shitty the panels look up close. They’re not really flat and planar. They’re sort of wobbly like corrugated tin.

stoly ,

I’ve only seen one and was shocked at how much worse it looks in person.

wjrii ,

It was always, shall we say, polarizing, but the production version managed to nudge every iffy design note in the concept car in the wrong direction. It ends up looking less Mass Effect and more like a Pontiac Aztek in DeLorean cosplay.

Eiri ,

Wow, even worse than the pictures that are already super ugly? Yeesh.

stoly ,

I was surprised!!

shalafi ,

I think the design is neat, though wildly impractical. And “impractical” doesn’t begin to cover the engineering and manufacturing flaws. Impractical, fragile and falling apart day-1? Sign me up!

Figure they’ll be like Deloreans some day, a few monied collectors keeping them going for nostalgia.

Never had any love for the man, never cared, but if you haven’t seen this video, heysus christos, this tells you all you need to know about Musk in a few short seconds.

ramenshaman ,

I see them a lot and am still shocked at how bad they look.

Fedizen ,

I’ve seen one nearby and every time I’ve seen it I’ve been like “found the dumbass”

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Really? I’ve seen a few of them around Portland, here. Most of them are wrapped.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve seen them maybe 10 times so far, though some of them were probably the same one again since it was during my commute.

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