God the environmental damage caused by making all these batteries, only to be used in a cyber truck and dumped in a car park.
Remember when Elon was pretending to be saving the environment, well now he isn't.
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God the environmental damage caused by making all these batteries, only to be used in a cyber truck and dumped in a car park.
Remember when Elon was pretending to be saving the environment, well now he isn't.
Batteries can be recycled, reused or repurposed. It’s nowhere near as damaging as drilling for/refining/shipping/burning oil and we decided we are perfectly okay with that.
Elon was always about making money. The marketing department was all about saving things.
Can't the city claim eminent domain on them and then sell them at auction?
Sell them for pennies to the US military. They can use them as incendiary devices.
They wouldnt even make good range targets because theyre likely to spontaniously combust
Elmo would remotely brick them out of spite if that happened.
Well if they're just abandoning them, then the city should seize them and start selling them for parts. I know most of it is garbage but surely parts of it can go to something more useful.
The article didn’t do their research but certainly implies it’s the landlord making a quick buck on storage fees why waiting for redevelopment to start
Tow them and fine them. Simple as that.
Towing them without putting them in tow mode will total them.
Even better.
These ugly things need to be in "tow mode"?
I was going to say what a stupid idea, but that's just the tip of the stupid ice berg.
Some of those trucks ended up stored at a run-down mall in Farmington Hills outside of Detroit in Michigan. Unsurprisingly, local officials are not happy about it.
Lol, he's not even trying to hide them anymore. I would like to see pics of these trucks *from afar at the rundown mall. It sounds very dystopian to see, Mad Max like.
Edit: The pics they show don't show the mall in the background and how empty it looks.
Bringing the property value down.
Hmmm.
So EVs are pretty simple machines. I think we can all agree on that. Like I am not a mechanic and I can work on these things (well maybe not the tires).
But the problem isn't just that a single component in these things sucks, it's the whole design. That being said, the motors, controllers, axles, sensors, etc, can't all be entirely custom. I would be willing to bet there is a fair amount of useful shit we could "borrow" from unsupervised and unwanted cyber trucks to rebuild them into something much much better.
The city should just confiscate all of them. I mean, at this point they are abandoned on city property.
And send Tesla the bill for recycling cost
The property owners should seize them for unpaid storage fee's. That has happened in my state. Putting your property on someone elses property is considered a tacit admission of a debt when it comes to storage. Ironically there is another law that states you can't charge for more than six months storage without a signed agreement. However there is nothing regulating how much that fee is. Case in point a person failed to pick up late model car at a towing company for two years. The towing company gave the owner a huge bill and they went to court to get it reduced to six months. The towing company just resubmitted a bill for six months at a increased rate that equaled the amount of the original bill. By the time the asshole who should have come and got their car sooner got through the bill had went up again. It was quite entertaining. to watch.
But using the land for ~~vehicle~~ dumpster storage is against city code. 😂
Tesla’s Cybertruck is a big silver sales flop and that’s given the company several problems, including working out what to do with all the electric pickups it can’t sell.
Yes. That's how you start a swastidumpster article.
Someone call a bomb squad. There are a bunch of terrorist bombs disguised as tesla cars in parking lots. I heard it's complicated to defuse, so I think we should just conduct a controlled detonation on these obvious terrorist cars. 😏
few cans of gasoline and some matches could go a long way to help solving this problem
definitely would rather see people ~~stealing~~ recycling the batteries
That's what they're hoping for. If they all caught fire Tesla could put in an insurance claim and get their money back.
Did he park them in a lot away from cameras, hoping there would be some "demonstrations" that would then allow him to claim insurance money? Does the policy cover "domestic terrorism"?
Give them to homeless people as shelter and give them a charging spot.
Why would they want a "shelter" that leaks and randomly catches on fire?
Did you know the Cybertruck was designed to mimic a Porsche? Specifically, this one.
Same thing is happening in Europe with Chinese EVs. Chinese EVs are piling up at European ports because they've gone unsold and the carmakers were way too optimistic or it's some sort of book keeping trickery to rack up the sales figures.
Yet people are still buying them. Maybe one or two every other month, but there are still people buying them. I really do miss PSA's. This would be a good opportunity for one. "Kids, always remember to punch a Nazi and flip their trucks. Geeee IIII JOOEEEE!!!"
You know who's buying them, right? The PSAs would just make them want them more.
Monstertruck v. Cybertruck: Dawn of Justice