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Two things about these incidents of Teslas catching fire:
1. It’s a tough one to investigate, because of course the motive might be political, but also Teslas just •do that• spontaneously on their own. (I hope nobody who owns one ever ever parks it in an attached garage!)
2. At some point, I have to imagine that the fires (both spontaneous and sabotage) are going to do wild things to the insurance rates for these vehicles. Owners selling at a loss might still end up saving money.
https://wallonie-bruxelles.social/@jlpiraux/114161206555517223
@inthehands The actuaries will finally have their say.
@inthehands my goodness, _another_ Tesla just spontaneously caught fire? *Whistles innocently*
@inthehands@hachyderm.io considering that insurance companies are likely one of the more data driven companies out there, I like to think that insurance rates for Teslas have already been "adjusted" upward.
Software glitches, chemical fires, doors that don't open during power failure, self-driving shenanigans, the list goes on.
@inthehands Teslas do not self-immolate any more or less than other EVs. Hell, Chevy had to recall every single Bolt to replace their entire battery pack.
And even with that, EV fires are very rare. EVs catching spontaneously is largly a myth propagated by fossil fuel enthusiasts.
@ch00f
And yet, just by the raw numbers, Cybertrucks catch fire at something like 57x the rate of the average vehicle.
Maybe those are all accidents, not spontaneous. Maybe they’re all arson. Maybe maybe maybe. But be careful of coddling fascists with your pedantry.
@inthehands I'm just trying to curb the spread of misinformation.
You can hate on Tesla without making up statistics and parroting the lies spread by fossil fuel companies that hurt EVs in general.
@inthehands And for some math. There are currently 285 million vehicles registered in the US and around 200k vehicle fires every year.
So that's 0.07% of vehicles going up in flames every year.
57x that is almost exactly 4%.
There are around 40,000 cybertrucks on the road. So if it was really 57x, there would have been 1600 cybertruck fires.
I think even with the cases that are suspected arson, the actual count is like maybe 10?
https://www.statista.com/topics/4578/vehicles-in-use-in-the-us/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cybertruck-success-comes-cost-tesla-013013780.html
@ch00f
Sorry, that’s fire •fatalities• that are so high. Small N, but truly alarming — and it has an obvious cause: unlike other EVs, Teslas are nearly impossible to escape when powered down (unless you’ve learned the arcane manual exit procedure, which, let’s face it, very few people have).
@inthehands I support that. The back door release mechanism for the massive and heavy Model X doors is hidden behind the speaker grille.
Surprised deaths aren't higher.
@inthehands @PattyHanson @jlpiraux
#TSLA113 is our goal. Drive down the stock price to force a margin call.