Well. It’s the sheriff, so he could have been saying it that way to suggest CTs are safe (they’re not, but that’s a different matter,) or he was speaking generally, but, eh. Nothing about it being a CT, specifically, would help any more than any other pickup truck. (and as an EV, the lithium batteries are far more problematic than an ICE vehicle during a fire.)
Given that it was the sheriff and they apparently had help from Tesla to get into it (and probably get the telemetry from before,) and they/Musk might have leaned on him to make sure people knew it was the truck’s fault.
The bit about Musk insisting the telemetry was all “positive”… if the dude was planing a keggar out in the desert, and the bomb was set off by a short in the bed cover system… (or just random static electricity build up, that happens too,) it would never show up in the telemetry.
either way, it’s probably reasonable to assume anything said by Musk is pure 100% grade-a marketing spin.
Well. It’s the sheriff, so he could have been saying it that way to suggest CTs are safe (they’re not, but that’s a different matter,) or he was speaking generally, but, eh. Nothing about it being a CT, specifically, would help any more than any other pickup truck. (and as an EV, the lithium batteries are far more problematic than an ICE vehicle during a fire.)
Given that it was the sheriff and they apparently had help from Tesla to get into it (and probably get the telemetry from before,) and they/Musk might have leaned on him to make sure people knew it was the truck’s fault.
The bit about Musk insisting the telemetry was all “positive”… if the dude was planing a keggar out in the desert, and the bomb was set off by a short in the bed cover system… (or just random static electricity build up, that happens too,) it would never show up in the telemetry.
either way, it’s probably reasonable to assume anything said by Musk is pure 100% grade-a marketing spin.