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At least 17 Tesla cars were destroyed after a fire broke out at a dealership on the outskirts of Rome on Monday morning, according to Italian fire officials. No one was at the dealership when the fire broke out and no injuries have been reported.

The fire comes after a string of reports across Italy in recent weeks of Tesla vehicles being vandalized and defaced, with anti-Elon Musk and anti-Donald Trump sentiments written with spray paint.

Another car dealership burned down in northern Rome a week ago, destroying 30 cars, including used Teslas.

Also in Rome, several Teslas in the Garbatella neighborhood were defaced, according to police and social media posts.

Tesla dealerships in Milan have also been targeted by environmental groups in recent weeks.

Reports of Tesla vandalism have also surfaced in France and various parts of the United States, including the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Insurance scam.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's actually astonishing how fast Tesla went from the most sought-after brand to becoming the most hated brand.

There are going to be case studies on this for centuries in all kinds of sciences.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

It's vaguely comforting to see that as everything seems like utter madness and history lurching in the wrong direction, it basically took one display of open Nazi support to have most of the world tell elon to fuck off

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Today i saw a tesla with a sticker that says: i bought this before we knew elon was crazy.

Somehow this made me so mad. Don't drag other people into that just because you found that out this year.

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

How is sticking a sticker on your car dragging other people into something?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

The rides of March.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the dealership fires and vandalism are insider jobs. The dealers have unsellable merchandise. An insurance payout is about the best they could hope for.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 points 1 day ago

Also shitty cars they can't fix if they break. A burned tesla is a sold tesla where they don't have to pretend to work on. Now they can build even shittier cars, because they go off in flames anyway.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 67 points 2 days ago

Couldn't have been. I was with the fire all night, we were miles away

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those Tesla batteries are spontaneously combusting now?

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Yes.

This is completely unrelated to panels falling off of their incel-camino model.

I think those have fireball batteries as well.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idiotic, you take the batteries out before you burn them.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 points 1 day ago

If these batteries weren't glued in the dumbest way possible, they would put them without batteries on the lot. That would be a win win. You could burn a tesla with less pollution and it's easier to extinguish

[–] rice@lemmy.org 1 points 1 day ago

yea, all these batteries.. I want for my solar system =[

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Must have been act of god. Thoughts and prayers.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure I saw a news report lately about Teslas getting burned in a wildfire, and IIRC, the batteries were exploding violently and scattering hazardous waste.

[–] axh@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My guess is that Tesla managers decided it's better to cash out the insurance money instead of storing the (swasti)cars that almost nobody will buy. And you can always blame the anti Musk "terrorists".

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Swasticars…. I like it

[–] Art3sian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Democrats did it.”

-Elon Musk.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

If only Democrats were that cool, we wouldn't be in this situation.

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

17 dang, Is that a high score?

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The article says another location had 30. So AFAIK that would be the high score.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 1 day ago

The 100 mark is reachable

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Is there a leaderboard somewhere online?

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 14 points 2 days ago

Accidents happen.

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Elons going deep into the k hole after this one

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If we're lucky, he'll go visit Matthew Perry.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Kinda disrespectful to Matthew Perry to say they'll meet in the same place, which I assume for Musk is Satan's unwashed taint.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

It's over. Not even the US government can save him now!

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hitting a production line would be way more costly for k hole boy

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But also a lot more difficult and dangerous to get access to the factory and destroy machinery than it is to set a few cars on fire in a parking lot.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I agree, I wouldn’t want to do either. But something like this is a lot more petty than they think it may be so it may not be worth doing unless you’re just going to go all out with it

Definitely wasn't the Italian Antifascists because none of the teslas where flipped upside down.

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just do that by themselves

[–] Zdvarko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

It is the viking funeral feature

[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised Trump and Musk aren't up in arms about the "car body count". "Won't somebody think of the children... We want to put to work--on overnight shifts, on school nights--making cars like this!"

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago

They are. Trump's DOJ is trying to charge people with terrorism and hate crimes for defacing a Tesla.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago
[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Tch tch tch, those damn self combusting, self immolating Teslas.

Someone should probably just ban them all, astoundingly unsafe, especially the cybertrucks.

[–] Bellingdog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I bet the fella from Fiat played a mean fiddle while Tesla of North Rome burned.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Not those Teslas sure do have a self combustion problem...

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Typical Roman suppression against Illyrians again. Tsk Tsk.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

we're having chili for dinner, but not that disgusting cincinnati style variety.