3 Cybertrucks Caught Fire After Underbody Strikes. Tesla Now Sells a $3,500 Battery Shield Upgrade. - FuelArc News
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TL;DR: At least three Cybertrucks have caught fire after crashes involving fire hydrants or other strikes beneath the truck. Tesla now sells owners a battery shield for $3,500. Call it shrinkflation, because when the same basic thing happened in 2013, Tesla offered owners additional battery armor for free while under investigation by the NHTSA. Tesla […]

I mean, I’m glad Tesla built a fix, but it’s sort of tacky to ship a $75,000+ truck and then sell the fireproofing separately.

  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    But the owner of the company is frenemies with the fucking president

    Enemies? That whole feud was faked to save Tesla. People were boycotting them very successfully. Musk continues to work helping trump including again paying to help in midterms.

    Unfortunately this stunt worked.

    • KayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOP
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      2 days ago

      “this stunt worked” is relative.

      Look at their sales chart. By comparison, Toyota moved 11-12 million.

      Gravity is inevitable. 1.5 million units a year is a unsustainable failure if the stock price is $300+. They need to multiply it by something insane like 20x for the stock price to make sense.