Tesla Cybertruck prevented rescue of 3 victims in crash, authorities say – NBC Bay Area
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This accident could be a scene in a horror movie.

I’m not a Tesla fan by any measure, but I edited the headline for this post. The original headline made it seem like a specific feature of the Cybertruck trapped the victims, but then the article explains it was really that the battery was burning so fiercely that the police just couldn’t free them. The deadly feature of the accident was the lithium battery, which is common to many makes and manufacturers of EVs.

  • @Katana314English
    1•1 hour ago

    So, obligatory Fuck Tesla.

    But, the next thing for me is acknowledging the terrible physics quandary of storing huge amounts of energy in a readily accessible form, without any chance of it releasing in an unintended manner.

    Electric car makers are under a lot of pressure to provide more and more range, which has lead to them cramming such strong batteries in.

    But again, we can take this as a critique of normal, non-fascist electric car companies that won’t be heading to the second iteration of Nuremberg trials.