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Summary
A fire at a Tesla dealership in Rome’s Torre Angela district early Monday destroyed 17 cars and damaged the building. No injuries were reported, but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.
The incident follows recent Tesla vandalism in Rome amid rising backlash against Elon Musk’s leadership and cost-cutting at DOGE.
Tesla has faced arson, protests, and boycott calls across the US and Europe.
The company’s stock fell 5% Monday, down 34% this year, with sales dropping sharply in both the US and Europe.
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I thought you were supposed to let electric vehicles burn because water conducts electricity.
Conductivity ain’t the issue, it’s just that water does nothing against a lithium fire.
Actually it does. It doesn’t put it out, but it does give somewhere for the heat to go until the reaction is finished. It just takes a ton of water, i.e. immersion if possible. Which is very similar to other large fires, where the water used isn’t to try and put the fire out as it’s too hot, but to just control spread to other areas.
and that’s how is done.
Damn teslas are really explody
A charged Li-Ion battery aflame is no joke, as we saw when it was the Galaxy Note 7. It’s a major concern for EVs catching fire in tunnels, parking garages, and ferries. They are SUPER HARD to extinguish- legacy techniques don’t really work.
Another example: In August of 2012, an explosion and fire occurred in one of the lithium-polymer batteries on the Foss hybrid tug CAMPBELL FOSS. - the reinstallation report
Here’s the report of the event itself: https://professionalmariner.com/battery-related-fire-damages-famed-hybrid-tug-puts-it-out-of-service/
A charged Li-Ion battery aflame is no joke, as we saw when it was the Galaxy Note 7. It’s a major concern for EVs catching fire in tunnels, parking garages, and ferries. They are SUPER HARD to extinguish- legacy techniques don’t really work.
Thank god, ol’ smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.
Thank god, ol’ smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.
You. Could. Not. Pay me…To get into that stupid friggin’ tunnel. How on earth did that thing actually get built?!
The flooding potential is bad enough, but otherwise, it’s not a matter of “if” people are gonna die horribly of fire or toxic inhalation in a confined concrete space with no escape, it’s absolutely “when.”
Ol’ smrty Musky won’t be blamed for the tragic accident. It would be some helpless fall person or Las Vegas.
Smrty Musky can’t be blamed for this.
During/after the recent LA fires, they spraypainted “NOT EV” on all of the ICE vehicles
Bro new fear unlocked. Burning TSLA on a ferry. Fuck me.
I vaguely recall a story from a year or two about one of those giant ocean-crossing car carriers that had an EV on board catch fire. Something like 500 of the 4000 cars on board were EV’s. I think they ultimately saved about 1000 of those cars after the fire was put out.
Edit: easy find…
https://www.versinetic.com/news-blog/debunking-ev-fire-myths-after-fremantle-highway-blaze/
The fire’s origin was eventually traced to the eighth deck of the 12-deck ship, far from the electric vehicle storage areas.
Ahhhh, thanks… i guess. Gruesome details yay.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Fremantle_Highway
And non of the EV were involved in the fire.
I didn’t see nuffin
The entirety of Rome was with me that night so they couldn’t have done it.
Hell yeah… More of this.
Aw shucks
Good. Fuck Musk and fuck any of his companies and cronies.
Sic semper tyrannus
Wow, there might be more Tesla’s put of fire than there are Russians that fell out of a window now.
And this is why most corporations get rid of their CEOs if they become toxic to the brand. But Musk has placed people who are loyal to him on the board. That’s how he stole the company from its original founders and this is how he’ll be allowed to run the company into the ground as if he owned it.
Just like trump in the white house, we should experience similar trajectories. Maniac in charge sorrounded by yes men.
Good start! Keep ‘em coming.
Man, there used to be one in my city centre, but they closed it several years ago, would have been fun now if they hadn’t. 🔥🔥🔥
Always glad to see teslas burning
❤️🤌🏼🇮🇹
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The incident comes as CEO Elon Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting efforts at DOGE have sparked a backlash against his EV maker.
No, the incident comes as Musk reveals he’s a fucking Nazi. Quit the bullshit. Elon Musk is a Nazi. The DOGE stuff is icing on the Nazi cake.
My great grandfather was a hero. He along with others discovered the cure for fascism, and he helped so many poor souls afflicted by this terrible disease.
However, I don’t believe he foresaw the possibility that it could become a family tradition. I certainly hope not, but things are going to get so much worse.
He along with others discovered the cure for fascism.
One such cure makes an exceptionally satisfying “PING!” after every 8th dose administered.
Agree. That is such an america centric view. Why would italians give enough fucks about DOGE to burn a Tesla store about it. Being a Nazi is what is our primary issue with Musk here in Europe.
I wish it was being taken seriously here. Many in America, including Democrats, think calling these maniacs traitors and Nazis is hyperbole/ rhetoric/ exaggerration/ propaganda, but it isnt. Its exactly what they are, and the sooner people understand and internalize that, the sooner we can purge them from our government.
Exactly, I was trying to jump hold to try and think why they would care about doge so much.
you mean they’re not burning teslas to protest the loss of our social welfare programs 🥺?
Doge/MAGA is also killing foreign aid and trying to kill nato and the EU too.
But he really is a Nazi and that’s more than enough to warrant this.
It’s not cost cutting when he’s managed to waste half a trillion with his ineptitude
There’s that darn 4th branch again, trying to manufacture the thoughts we think.
10 years from now, I hope we all remember how EVERY SINGLE mainstream news outlet refused to call what Musk did a Nazi salute. I hope that we can all see that they work solely for the billionaire class. And I hope that we can still see all that, even when they’re “on our side”.
Fuck America.
