17 Teslas destroyed following blaze at Rome dealership
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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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.
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.
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.
Exactly, I was trying to jump hold to try and think why they would care about doge so much.
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.
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.
One such cure makes an exceptionally satisfying "PING!" after every 8th dose administered.
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.
That's why it was so shocking when a judge recently compared them to Nazis, and even implied that the Mazis were kinder! Unfortunately, many MAGA Trairors woumd be proud of that.
Also, I have NEVER heard a news personality call any of them Traitors, despite an Insurrection, the False Electors Plot, hundreds of stolen classified documents, turning against our allies, smooching the world's worst authorities, etc.
By any objective measure, Agent Krasnov is the most prolific traitor in American history, more than all other American traitors COMBINED.
And yet not one talking news head has ever called him a Traitor.
It's not cost cutting when he's managed to waste half a trillion with his ineptitude
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/
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.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66393507
https://maritime-executive.com/article/salvage-completed-on-fire-damaged-car-carrier-fremantle-highway
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Fremantle_Highway
And non of the EV were involved in the fire.
https://www.versinetic.com/news-blog/debunking-ev-fire-myths-after-fremantle-highway-blaze/
Ahhhh, thanks.... i guess. Gruesome details yay.
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
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.
Some of them are in protest, some are insurance fraud because teslas don't sell. Some just burn by themselves.
An economic, political, and safety liability all around.
Some malicious compliance if you want to get rid of your Tesla, and don't think anyone else should support them... Just set it on fire and blame vigilantes (I don't endorse this).
Better malicious compliance would be protestors videotaping every dealership to catch and report insurance fraud.
Insurance fraud?
Dealer torches their own stock that they can't sell, blames protestors, and gets to write off all those cars with insurance payouts instead of just sitting on them
I'm guessing they mean catching dealerships setting their own vehicles ablaze to claim insurance money.
I don't see that happening really though, sadly in my locale, these stupid jellybean caskets are selling and there's more clogging up the roads by the day.
I didn't see nuffin
The entirety of Rome was with me that night so they couldn't have done it.
Good. Fuck Musk and fuck any of his companies and cronies.
Sic semper tyrannus
And nothing of value was lost
That's not true. The materials used to make those could have gone to something much more productive.
The lithium should burn to lithium oxide. So it should still be recycled to recover most or almost all of it.
They already were wasted by making teslas
Opportunity costs.
I think it's quite telling that they're likely considering the strong possibility that these wonderous marvels of cost-cutting may have just spontaneously lit themselves ablaze without help, at rest, in a parking lot.
For a majority of other vehicles, that'd be an absurd conclusion. But Teslas contain a baffling amount of greed-motivated engineering and numerous fire incidents. It isn't talked about enough and I see more of these things by the day. There has to be some kind of "reputation management" going on.
Either way, ::: spoiler remember kids! If you see someone setting an unoccupied swastikar ablaze... No you didn't. :::
I bet all these fires are of the result of Elon Musk remotely catching them on fire. Which means two things. One he is losing money and needs a insurance payout. Two he is planting these as false flags in order to further trump agenda. They already want to label anyone who even vandalizes a tesla as a terrorist. Musk is doing this and its fucking terrifying how trump reacting.
"Engage Insurance Protocol X!"
There's a plausible case where either a very stupid OTA software update or a faulty charger could in fact cause a bunch of them to catch fire at once.
❤️🤌🏼🇮🇹
Wow, there might be more Tesla's put of fire than there are Russians that fell out of a window now.
Why would the WOKE libs do this?
Oh this in Rome? Do they have woke libs?
Oh so sorry to hear about your Swasticars that passed away. Here's five big booms.
New Olympic sport just dropped.
maybe it was Nero?
Rome fiddled while Tesla burned. :)
and that’s how is done.
Weird, sometimes they just do that.
Aw shucks
Prolly just a mistake. Maybe left them charging too long?
Hell yeah... More of this.
Did anyone bring a fiddle?
DDR Announcer Voice: "Good Good Keep on going!"
Burn a few and get a little satisfaction. Burn some more and you get some more satisfaction. Burn 'em all and you get complete satisfaction.
Good start! Keep ‘em coming.
Tarrifed Teslas
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
Prolly just a mistake. Maybe left them charging too long?
https://youtu.be/UnyBJJI2eqs
Oh well, what can you do? Rome is pretty hot this time of the year.
Who knew Teslsas would set on fire in hot temperatures.
its fine the cars committed suicide
Expect more of this.
Those aren't fires, they are Roman Parking Lots.
Well I have a pretty good idea of what the cause is...
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.
the
years of leadyears of lithium have startedOh so sad.
/s
When in Rome...
BTW, which Rome? Like, I'd assume Italy, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was another Rome.
Edit: confirmed that it's Rome, Italy via other articles.