Summary
Tesla has been quietly replacing battery packs in Cybertrucks due to issues with “side-dented cells” causing potential battery core collapse.
Reports date back to September 2024, with owners learning of battery replacements during unrelated service visits.
Tesla describes the replacements as proactive but has not issued an official recall, raising questions about transparency and regulatory compliance.
Critics suggest Tesla’s approach avoids negative press and high costs.
Concerns persist about the scope of the issue, potential safety risks, and Tesla’s lack of formal communication with owners or regulatory bodies.
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Interesting that this comes to light after what happened in Las Vegas…
Only a few weeks of stalling to go until they can definitively announce that there are no problems with cybertrucks, the patriotic car exploded due to terrorism, and BYD was the responsible party so EV tariffs are getting doubled.
It’s already well known that the Cybertruck that exploded in Las Vegas was loaded with fireworks and cans of camp fuel. Whether it was “terrorism” or not is still an open question (and it’s such a wildly overused term these days that it’ll likely be a useless answer) but I think blaming it on the battery is likely jumping to a poor conclusion.
I say we’re not jumping to conclusions enough!
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Maybe it was a false flag attack, one planned and executed by Musk himself! He contacts one of his most ardent fanboys on X. He tells him that he’s arranging a get together for some of his greatest fans in Las Vegas. He says to load your cybertruck up with as many fireworks and gas cans as you can. From there everyone will drive out to the desert, hold a huge bonfire, and set off fireworks. And they will all meet up at the front door of Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Musk waits til the mark does this. Once the car’s GPS indicates it is in position, Musk simply activates the secret remote self destruct he’s built into every cybertruck. It turns out, every one of those is a bomb that Musk can set off at any time through a simple web interface. He just clicks a button, an overload is triggered in the batteries, and the whole thing goes up in flames. The fireworks and gasoline just serve to multiply the blast, provide an explanation for the explosion, and to kill the only witness to Musk’s plot.
It turns out he wasn’t a terrorist! He was an innocent fool who thought Musk invited to a party. Musk is basically Lex Luthor at this point. Would you really put something like this past him? It’s not like he hasn’t integrated secret features into cars before. Why not a remote self destruct that can only be activated at the sole discretion of Musk himself?
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To be fair, a bad battery would light all those fireworks and camp fuel.
I think it was deliberate, too, but Trump needs those sweet points with his base for doing something about it and musk wants to limit EV competition so he’ll delay
Right, and people who hate Trump also need those sweet points with their base and so they’ll accuse Trump of delaying even though Trump isn’t president yet. And won’t be in charge of everyone investigating this even when he is, Nevada’s senate and house are both Democrat-controlled and I’m sure there’s some state-level investigation going on here.
It’s going to be a long four years, let’s try not to make literally everything a pro-Trump or anti-Trump talking point. There are actual facts that can be talked about instead.
Elon will be the one stalling in my theory, not Trump. He doesn’t like being investigated very much
It seems that fire was a deliberate explosion - the rare Tesla fire that’s not started by the Tesla.
I do appreciate how we heard a cybertruck exploded and caught fire and most people were like “yup, that happens.”
People going “yup, that confirms my existing preconceptions” doesn’t say much. Regular cars catch fire too, it just doesn’t make headlines every time one of them does.
Cars are dangerous in general. They’re explosive, fires, impacts, poisoning, dementia-causing, environmentally disastrous, and the #3 reason US adults die (direct causes, with many other indirect contributions to other categories). But Tesla has done a pretty good job of mediocre build quality across the board so extending that experience to their batteries isn’t unreasonable.
Given time they’ll either disabuse us all of the impression or not.
Well, actually, the article is from 4 days ago, so prior to that incident not after.
How do you prevent someone making a bomb out of gas cans and pyrotechnics by replacing batteries … ? Those weren’t even affected by the explosion/fire.
As musk commented, you don’t have to worry about those fires as cyber truck will direct them upwards.
And lock the doors.
With you inside.
And apparently, Kekius Maximus is the only one to be able to open the doors.
They’ll still blame someone for it instead of accept the responsibility for it.
Didn’t you hear?
It’s now possibly an act of terrorism.🙄
For anyone who doesn’t know, that is not a Photoshop job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference#2022
They sure throw that word around a lot!
It’s so they can look cool and make it harder to tell when right wingers actually execute terroristic efforts. It’s a way to muddy the waters and reduce the impact of the term in the future.
If he had known before, he probably wouldn’t have stored camp fuel and fireworks.
There has been a steady stream of “Cybertruck sucks!” Articles and comments being posted since Cybertruck was revealed, so it’s actually not all that interesting IMO. Blow up a Cybertruck at any time and there’ll likely be some other “Cybertruck sucks!” Thing going on at the simultaneously.
Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis have had electric car recalls over the past couple of years too, I haven’t seen a peep about those.
Bet you president musk will make recalls optional to arbitration. “You can spend millions on a recall, or just hundreds of thousands on quietly paying off your vict, er, customers”
“Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, B, then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.”
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I could totally see Tesla realizing some part needed a recall and not wanting the poor publicity, so they tell it to randomly display a message saying “possible error in <some part>, please see your dealer”. And then when the user comes in, they stealthily fix the part without telling anyone.
