• @FelixCressOP
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    295 days ago

    I have a feeling that it may have naturally caught fire (as in, standard tesla feature) and then fireworks they carried with them exploded.

    • scops
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      245 days ago

      A picture from this ABC article shows gas cans, camping stove cans, and fireworks in the back of the truck. The truck battery somehow survived.

      • Tiefling IRL
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        105 days ago

        Hahaha I can spot from a mile away the cans of Coleman (possibly Crown) camp fuel.

      • @[email protected]
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        95 days ago

        “somehow” Tesla armour their batteries well, also the fire was above the battery, little would have penetrated down to the battery and since the headlights stayed on during the doomed events, I expect battery cooling was active throughout

      • @[email protected]
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        45 days ago

        Also, a tip for cybertruck drivers: retract the tonneau cover while carrying explosives and dangerously flammable cargo to add armour between the cargo area and cabin

        The driver wouldn’t have been so exploded and burnt had they had the back opened and steel between them and the disaster in their cargo area

        • Flying Squid
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          24 days ago

          If this was intentional, I’m guessing being exploded and burnt was the goal.

      • @modus
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        45 days ago

        This fucking moron thought cans of liquid gasoline would explode?

        • @[email protected]
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          65 days ago

          They did have explosives in there with them, at least in the form of firework mortars.

          Explosives and fuel make a good fireball and fire. Fireworks being a 2 stage explosive, they may have expected the initial bang to disburse the fuel and the second to detonate it as a fuel/air explosive which would be very damaging, enough to take down the building.

          Obviously were that their goal they did not sufficiently test. The vehicle contained the initial explosion and all they got was a fire