Toulouse (France) (AFP) – A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor’s office said Monday.

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Once again the French demonstrate that they know how to raise hell.

We need to get more like the French.

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There was a post here the other day asking if vandalism was OK because someone wrote something with their finger on a muddy swasticar.

Now this is vandalism. Or possibly an accident, batteries like to burn violently and Tesla isn’t known for build quality or safety…

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Guess you haven’t seen https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39116529

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Well, that’s a start.

Also, describing Molotov cocktails as “explosive devices” seems just a little misleading.

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Probably the batteries, yeah?

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Yeah, lithium batteries are well known fire hazards.

And once they get going, they get going, google thermal runaway for some interesting videos.

To fight a thermal runaway you need to cool it down fast, ice is commonly recommanded.

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I think all the ice is being used to kick out illegal immigrants though.

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3 points

EV fires are fought by flooding (most commonly)

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Ohhh, ice for the required melting energy? I thought that would be offset by the more difficult handling and lower flow rates. Interesting.

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No, no, you just deport the battery so it explodes in someone else’s country.

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So would a snow machine work ?

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No, but snow would probably be effective at cooling down a battery experiencing thermal runaway

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France is literally protesting better than the USA over our own issues…

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It’s because your issues are everyone’s issues.

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Yeah - I just wish our leaders (Democrat ones) would call for protests at least. It would help. Instead we twiddle our thumbs as our institutions are destroyed. I haven’t heard of a single protest for the tariffs today that nobody wants but Trump and Putin…

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Only 12? C’mon France we know you can do much better. Try again.

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Hey let’s be real.

Ain’t no protest like a French protest.

They’ll do better. Patience.

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I’ll believe it when they chop teslas in half with a giant blade.

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So, when they burn them with extra steps?

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What have you done lately?

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25 points

Made comments on the internet, obviously.

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I’m doing my part!

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5 points

Call that a “breaker’s dozen”.

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Nah, we put things on fire only when some random dealer get shot by a cop.

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I’ve heard the best thing people can do against Musk is to vandalise privately purchased Teslas. I’ve heard that will put mass fear in the market not to buy them.

I’ve heard that vandalising commercially owned Teslas will only result in insurance payouts and more Teslas being made.

I’ve heard that the best way to vandalise privately owned Teslas is to use spray paint, which is relatively easy to clean off (not hurting the owner too much) while being very media-affective.

That’s what I’ve heard.

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The insurance premiums of the commercial ones will increase by a lot of this happens too much.

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In my country private insurance is way higher on Teslas than other models already, apparently a mix of them being valuable, high risk of accident/theft, and impossible to repair from small fender benders driving cost of replacements up.

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Or removing its windshield wiper (its the giant stick on one side of the windshield)

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Couldn’t they just put a new one on easily?

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Apparently they are only purchasable through Tesla directly, and are severely backordered.

Not surprising, its a stupid and nonstandard design, one giant wiper for the whole damn windshield on a single hinge at the corner.

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Smh you should tell that to the fools in the thread about the lady in Colorado. They seem quite oblivious to this

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Why would I tell anyone? I’m not condoning any action of vandalism at all. It’s only what I’ve heard.

Now that you’ve heard it too, you can tell others what you’ve heard without condoning it either.

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Bitch Musk has been an asshole for longer than a fucking decade, get your head out of your ass

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Yeah they’ve only had like a decade to figure that out

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Up to a point. No cybertruck owner has any excuse.

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Cybertrucks for sure

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That’s entirely orthogonal to the point of their comment

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He was a shady fuck many years ago. They got played and now they gotta deal with it.

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