Toulouse (France) (AFP) – A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor’s office said Monday.
The French get shit done, unlike weak Americans.
Nice.
No, Toulouse!
/s
That’s how you boycott something
Get the nazi traitors and Putin assets out of Europe. Or at least their businesses.
That second sentence isn’t needed. Get Nazis and Putin assets out of Europe.
France is literally protesting better than the USA over our own issues…
It’s because your issues are everyone’s issues.
Yeah - I just wish our leaders (Democrat ones) would call for protests at least. It would help. Instead we twiddle our thumbs as our institutions are destroyed. I haven’t heard of a single protest for the tariffs today that nobody wants but Trump and Putin…
Oh no. Anyways
I’ve heard the best thing people can do against Musk is to vandalise privately purchased Teslas. I’ve heard that will put mass fear in the market not to buy them.
I’ve heard that vandalising commercially owned Teslas will only result in insurance payouts and more Teslas being made.
I’ve heard that the best way to vandalise privately owned Teslas is to use spray paint, which is relatively easy to clean off (not hurting the owner too much) while being very media-affective.
That’s what I’ve heard.
The insurance premiums of the commercial ones will increase by a lot of this happens too much.
Or removing its windshield wiper (its the giant stick on one side of the windshield)
Or consider that people may have bought them well before Musk came out of the gate as a full scumbag. I know people who bought them when evs were still a new thing and they were just being green and cutting edge.
Bitch Musk has been an asshole for longer than a fucking decade, get your head out of your ass
Yeah they’ve only had like a decade to figure that out
That’s entirely orthogonal to the point of their comment
I’ve heard the best thing people can do against Musk is to vandalise privately purchased Teslas.
Yes, and?
Smh you should tell that to the fools in the thread about the lady in Colorado. They seem quite oblivious to this
Why would I tell anyone? I’m not condoning any action of vandalism at all. It’s only what I’ve heard.
Now that you’ve heard it too, you can tell others what you’ve heard without condoning it either.
Ooooh, lithium fires
Antifa colors.
I don’t support contributions to environmental damage caused by fires. I love the idea that Tesla cars are destroyed. It’s a conundrum.
That said, I like this more than I dislike it.
People can hold contradictory beliefs at the same time
Only 12? C’mon France we know you can do much better. Try again.
Call that a “breaker’s dozen”.
Hey let’s be real.
Ain’t no protest like a French protest.
They’ll do better. Patience.
I’ll believe it when they chop teslas in half with a giant blade.
What have you done lately?
Made comments on the internet, obviously.
I’m doing my part!
Nah, we put things on fire only when some random dealer get shot by a cop.
I’m surprised this hasn’t been happening in the US
They just catch fire sometimes, so it’s hard to tell.
I think there’s a better way to link Lemmy posts, but I don’t know how to fix it.
Setting EVs on fire is really bad for the environment. Can’t people just mess up these cars by cutting cables?
People? No. Weasles? Yes.
Which cables are readily accessible? Which cables are readily accessible but not easily replaceable?
Based on repair costs just damaging one motor should be even to scrap it.
And have them be easily repairable?
I imagine they don’t want to stick around too long
/me starts handing out “/s” shaped molotov cocktails
I think these bottles would be more appropriate. Odd how Musk’s tequila brand looks like an s from the SS logo. Im sure that’s unintentional.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-tequila-restocked/
Edit: For those unaware this is real and as someone with a multi-decade history of collecting and selling agave spirits at retail it is fucking awful for the money.
Once again the French demonstrate that they know how to raise hell.
We need to get more like the French.
Guess you haven’t seen https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39116529
Well, that’s a start.
Also, describing Molotov cocktails as “explosive devices” seems just a little misleading.
There was a post here the other day asking if vandalism was OK because someone wrote something with their finger on a muddy swasticar.
Now this is vandalism. Or possibly an accident, batteries like to burn violently and Tesla isn’t known for build quality or safety…
C’mon, please don’t generate revenue for Tesla - not even from insurance policies. It makes more sense for the cars to just stand around and rust despite the stainless steel. Nobody wants to buy from that goddamn Nazi anyway.
But hey, maybe Musk had the cars set on fire himself - that would be a rather harmless insurance scam compared to his other activities…
Two people on my block have bought Teslas since the inauguration :( I’m in NYC
Tell them a random guy on the internet says they should be ashamed of themselves.
Spray them with salt water! Accelerate that rusting process!
If it continues, insurance companies will not insure Teslas. Already happened to certain Audi and Porsche models that had subpar plating underneath. Spontaneous combustion would easily do that to Teslas.
Yes, that’s the silver lining.
Also happened to Range Rovers once people realised they were insanely easy to steal.
It got so bad that people that owned them on finance could no longer get insurance. This made a tonne of them hit the second hand market making them cheaper. Meaning people with finance couldn’t even sell the car for the money they owed on the finance.
Range Rover started offering their own insurance and I did a quote for fun and they just said nah fam.
That’s funny 😅 The Germans failed the obvious “Don’t let a bump ruin your 15k battery pack” by making the cars longer and lower to look sportier than the competition. It worked until insurance companies realized they owe 15k€ for each person driving to a bump or pot hole at normal speeds.
And then those cars stopped selling 💁
Probably the batteries, yeah?
Yeah, lithium batteries are well known fire hazards.
And once they get going, they get going, google thermal runaway for some interesting videos.
To fight a thermal runaway you need to cool it down fast, ice is commonly recommanded.
I think all the ice is being used to kick out illegal immigrants though.
EV fires are fought by flooding (most commonly)
So would a snow machine work ?
No, but snow would probably be effective at cooling down a battery experiencing thermal runaway
Ohhh, ice for the required melting energy? I thought that would be offset by the more difficult handling and lower flow rates. Interesting.
No, no, you just deport the battery so it explodes in someone else’s country.
