A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas
It’s still not clear what caused the fire
It’s a Cybertruck.
From another article…
While some early Tesla models, including the Model S, were prone to spontaneously catch fire if they suffered underbody damage, it’s unlikely the Cybertruck, which has been recalled seven times since it went on sale in November 2023, was released with a similar flaw.
Nah, no chance a cybertruck would have the same flaw. No chance at all, am I right?
It has a whole new set of flaws that result in the same outcome.
Saw one in daylight for the first time yesterday. They’re so big they don’t fit in Costco’s ridiculously oversized parking stalls.
Well, it’s certainly a different beast. Being a pickup, the chassis is higher off the ground than other teslas. The problem with other teslas was insufficient armor on the underbody, so road debris could puncture through the vehicle and damage batteries. On a pickup there’s both more room for (essentially) an armor plate and any debris would have to punch much higher up.
All and all, these kinds of battery fires should be much less likely to occur on a truck than on a sedan.
Edit: Upon actually watching that press conference from the sheriff and fire marshall, it seems clear to me from the language they’re using, that they’re treating this explosion as likely an intentional act. And I have to say, there’s a lot of damning evidence in that truck bed.
The battery pack also has a substantial amount of room between the bottom and the cells. It was so much, that at first people thought that was room for the double stack battery they had originally planned, but it turned out to not be enough space, and is just there to vent gas if cells catch on fire, and more room before a puncture during offroading can reach a cell.
I mean yeah, it’s pretty unlikely, or we’d probably have seen more of these fires already.
My money is on the owner doing/transporting something stupid. Stupider than buying a cybertruck, I mean
What was the ignition source though? Gas and firworks usually dont just light themselves?
It wouldn’t have been the first time.
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/31/cybertruck-catches-fire-dekalb-county-tesla-dealership/
Well, that is funny.
However the battery didn’t explode, the truck bed was full of gasoline cans and fireworks.
And the steel body of the truck bed actually did a great job of containing the explosion, focusing it mostly upward. The sheriff points out that the windows in the all glass front of that hotel weren’t even shattered because the blast was so well contained by the truck.
Yeah, teslas are quite good at keeping things inside during emergency situations.
Like people.
People in teslas back when they did regularly catch fire from hitting road debris had no trouble pulling over and getting out before fire got into the cabin
They don’t need electricity to open the doors, and owners should really tell passengers how to open the doors manually
Search for whichever model’s user manual for your country if you want to see how to open the doors
