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.
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.
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
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.
How is sticking a sticker on your car dragging other people into something?
Couldn’t have been. I was with the fire all night, we were miles away
Definitely wasn’t the Italian Antifascists because none of the teslas where flipped upside down.
They just do that by themselves
How?
It is the viking funeral feature
It’s over. Not even the US government can save him now!
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If we’re lucky, he’ll go visit Matthew Perry.
Kinda disrespectful to Matthew Perry to say they’ll meet in the same place, which I assume for Musk is Satan’s unwashed taint.
Hitting a production line would be way more costly for k hole boy
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.
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
Those Tesla batteries are spontaneously combusting now?
Yes.
This is completely unrelated to panels falling off of their incel-camino model.
I think those have fireball batteries as well.
And nothing of value was lost.
Beautiful.
Insurance scam.
I bet the fella from Fiat played a mean fiddle while Tesla of North Rome burned.
“Democrats did it.”
-Elon Musk.
If only Democrats were that cool, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
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!”
They are. Trump’s DOJ is trying to charge people with terrorism and hate crimes for defacing a Tesla.
