Updated with video from reporters on-site at the bottom of the post! Late Sunday night, four Tesla Cybertrucks caught fire in a Seattle holding lot near 2nd Ave S & S Spokane St, just five minutes from the local Tesla dealership. Initially, reports indicated two burning Cybertrucks, but as the fire spread, the number grew to 4 Cybertrucks. Investigators have offered no details as to whether this was arson or another case of a Tesla Cybertruck bursting into flames spontaneously. See video from the scene in the full article.
I’m asking for a fictional novel I’m writing. I’d like to describe my character in detail rigging a Cybertruck to burn but making it look like it was a spontaneous battery fire. I intend my character to believably get away with this crime.
Can anyone help me with detailed steps how this fictional character would fictionally accomplish this feat. Fictionally, of course.
That character could use employee diagnostic access into the cars as they are always on the Internet. SSH into them, get into the battery controller and do myriad things. Set the thermal management into permanent heat mode. Disable thermal management 100% for the next time the car is driven so it can’t cool the batteries (good for getting rid of pesky rodents like muskrats that try to live in them.) Mess with the charge controller in general so it overcharges, undercharges. You name it. All sorts of fun things one could add to that book depending on your plot.
Make sure while your character is hacking the battery controller though, that they set the car stereo to play Dragula by Rob Zombie at full volume. For effect.
These idiots were dumb enough to design Teslas like computers rather than cars, so a whole lot of stuff was designed like a crappy cell phone rather than the proven design principles of automotive engineering.
idk, maybe a soda can of thermite and a sparkler it the right spot. not sure of any details, just something I read, in a book
Ask this to chatgpt
I did. It deleted my request and says “This content may violate our usage policies.”
Ask deepseek then.
I love that the truck is so shitty we don’t know if ppl blowing them up or they blowing themselves up.
Designed so bad they commit seppuku.
Maybe they became self aware and could no longer live with themselves knowing their family history.
Daddy said he loves em, but is negligent.
This tracks.
No. Only trains track and Teslas aren’t trains.
Definitely for sure a spontaneous battery fire. Couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to commit arson on some low-poly neofash shitboxes. No sir.
And if anyone saw any evidence to the contrary… No we didn’t.
But wait…what if…and hear me out here…what if they caught fire as a result of people rebelling against a facist takeover of our government?
What if…
Far more likely that they set on fire because they are poorly designed an Musky boy is dismantling any and all safety regulations for his death traps.
Man I hate Tesla more than most but it is far far less likely to just have spontaneous battery fires, especially on an older brand like Tesla. I know we all love to hate on them (cyber truck in particular), but seriously spontaneous battery fires are insanely uncommon.
There are about 35,000 or so Cybertrucks that exist.
The last one that spontaneously burst into flames on a dealer lot was about 60 days ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1hs7d52/a_tesla_cybertruck_burned_down_at_tesla_lot_in/
I wouldn’t call that insanely uncommon, I don’t think. There might be something about this model that makes it more prone to fires than your average Tesla.
America? Becoming fascist? That seems super, super impossible. Our current president, who dresses like an orange, and is a convicted felon and sexual molester, would never allow something so heinous. He works so hard for us. Did you see the great job he did raising the price of eggs? If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.
This cracked me up so hard. The videographer knew what the were doing.
I wish billboards were illegal. 1, they are distracting while driving and 2, this is a load of crap. There is not any evidence that god exists.
They’re illegal in Maine. I never saw one outside of television until i was fully an adult.
Seriously. Billboards going away would restore so much beauty to the world.
Pffft, you got a link to that video? That HAD to be intentional.
I didn’t realize it’s Komo, they’re owned by Sinclair. For those of you who don’t know, they’re super Christian Nationalist. https://komonews.com/news/local/four-tesla-cybertrucks-destroyed-in-fire-in-seattles-sodo-neighborhood-elon-musk-doge-federal-jobs-cut-protests-seattle-fire-department-investigation
That makes the framing of this thumbnail even more legendary.
It’s funny either way. In case it’s arson, though, I hope whoever did it gets away clean.
Whoever it was was with me all day
Same. It was a great day, and their alibi is rock solid.
it’s probably from the Twitter cyber attack
CYBER attack, CYBER truck.
Yes. Yes I see.
Ukraine is getting really good at this! /s
The irony considering they’d be doing it with Starlink connections is amusing to consider.
“Hello, police? Someone is DDOSing my vehicle.”
Are your cars shit or do people really fucking hate you?.. Or both. Imma go with both.
Sounds like you’ve (Musk) got big problems if you’re not sure which is the right answer.
Don’t name your car a Tesla and then be surprised when the battery arcs
Somebody should have told Elon to model his life after an engorged clitoris. He’s spent so much time as an unwashed flaccid foreskin that he has no idea which bad decisions led to this.
Either possibility is equally funny!
I’m shocked they didn’t just leap to arson and are considering other things. Teslas are known to randomly catch on fire.
I would not put it past Musk to have put a “self-destruct” function hidden in the code for these things, and is remotely killing them so they can blame it on protestors (also, take the insurance money).
Just like the pager attack, or in silicon valley with the hooli phones. I figure musk could turn these things into self placing IEDs he can trigger remotely with a software patch. Maybe some discharge parameter change or something.
Maybe someone in the factory just created a few weak points when installing batteries?
Okay which one of you happened to pass by that lot?
