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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[–] 246 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The incident comes as CEO Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting efforts at DOGE have sparked a backlash against his EV maker.

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.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 125 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Damn teslas are really explody

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    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/

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Bro new fear unlocked. Burning TSLA on a ferry. Fuck me.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

    Thank god, ol' smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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."

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  • [–] 114 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Some of them are in protest, some are insurance fraud because teslas don't sell. Some just burn by themselves.

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    Good. Fuck Musk and fuck any of his companies and cronies.

    Sic semper tyrannus

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    And nothing of value was lost

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    ...but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.

    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,

    remember kids! If you see someone setting an unoccupied swastikar ablaze...No you didn't.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    ❤️🤌🏼🇮🇹

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Wow, there might be more Tesla's put of fire than there are Russians that fell out of a window now.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Why would the WOKE libs do this?

    Oh this in Rome? Do they have woke libs?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Oh so sorry to hear about your Swasticars that passed away. Here's five big booms.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    New Olympic sport just dropped.

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    and that’s how is done.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Weird, sometimes they just do that.

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    Prolly just a mistake. Maybe left them charging too long?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Did anyone bring a fiddle?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Hell yeah... More of this.

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    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Good start! Keep ‘em coming.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    DDR Announcer Voice: "Good Good Keep on going!"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Tarrifed Teslas

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    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. 🔥🔥🔥

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