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.
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