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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

some_designer_dude ,

It proves they’re mentally unfit to operate a vehicle.

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.

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

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

Trilobite ,

It works so well youtu.be/Dfx4JZiSeHI?si=AEEnZZWMChtV6vWo

__dev ,

Not sure what you’re expecting that fuse to do when the battery is on fire from crash damage?

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.

aniki ,

Brakes yo. They get HOT

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.

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.

Zahille7 ,

I kinda like the look of the headlight strip or whatever. That’s about it though.

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.

UnbalancedFox ,

😂😂😂

DaddleDew ,

The aftermath of a dumpster fire

j4k3 ,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

For those of you that can not see it immediately, look more carefully at the dripping at the top of the tire, the deformation at the middle of the side skirt trim, and the darkness on the inside of the glass, not to mention the view inside the broken glass.

clay_pidgin ,

Can’t see what, the fire damage?

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

In its natural environment.

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

Should be towed outside the environment where nobody can see it.

zcd ,

What a complete sack of shit

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry but you’re wrong.

It’s a box of shit.

zcd ,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/cd4648cd-a648-4e62-b9ed-a31fb3049bec.png

Empricorn ,

They weren’t talking about the product…

tipicaldik ,

take a drive by the Tesla service center in Pensacola… you can see a bunch of them parked there.

shalafi ,

Hah! First one I was over near Holt off I-10. Honestly, it seemed pretty cool, guy had some low-key black graphics on it. But after seeing the fail-train these things are, they can’t look cool to me anymore.

Also, I’m practical with my purchases, or try to be. I have a beat up 2004 F150 that actually runs, can get wet and hauls 5x what a Cybertruck can. I get buying stuff for the cool factor, but what’s the use case here?!

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.

something_random_tho ,

Wow, that Cybertruck is holding up great! Looks like the flames were limited to the front quarter, and the seats haven’t rusted through the base of the car, yet. That’s better than most!

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