- Farmington Hills officials are fuming over a glut of unsold Cybertrucks being stored in the city.
- Tesla has been parking the EVs at a shopping center earmarked for major redevelopment.
- Officials say the electric vehicles violate zoning codes and are warning the property owner.
I’ll offer $15,000 firm. They won’t get a better offer.
Plenty of valuable recyclables and use the batteries for power storage. Fuck Leon Hitler.
Sounds like rage mall parking lot parties are a good start. Just start destroying them
Can’t the city claim eminent domain on them and then sell them at auction?
Sell them for pennies to the US military. They can use them as incendiary devices.
There he goes again - saving the government money. /S
They wouldnt even make good range targets because theyre likely to spontaniously combust
Ever hear of tannerite?
Yeah that’s what we should do. Give Elon Musk a massive defense contract for his garbage vehicles
Use them as target practice or give them to fire departments to train on extinguishing lithium fires.
I don’t think lithium fires can be extinguished. I thought dumping sand on them might be a solution but a commenter mentioned that the fire is self oxidizing and basically you just have to wait for it to end, while maybe cooking it with water a bit as it burns.
Elmo would remotely brick them out of spite if that happened.
That is a lengthy court process. Just call in an anonymous tip to the cops that they’re being used to smuggle drugs, and they can civil forfeiture them. Then police auction
That’s not a terrible idea. But it does put the proceeds in the hands of the cops.
I’ll take one for $1
I don’t know if I would. I don’t want the analytics and tracking on me.
Fuck that, pay me to get rid of that for you
$1.01
That’s to rich for my blood.
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
What are you going to do with it, haul four-foot boards on flat paved roads?
Monstertruck v. Cybertruck: Dawn of Justice
Everyone involved in that business are shit at business through and through
Same thing is happening in Europe with Chinese EVs. Chinese EVs are piling up at European ports because they’ve gone unsold and the carmakers were way too optimistic or it’s some sort of book keeping trickery to rack up the sales figures.
Is that still the case though? I can only find articles from 2024 about this
Executive bonus target, deliver x number of cars in Europe. Job done!
Wow, that sounds like announcing a really juicy target for certain people. But if those vehicles were to sustain damage, that might mean an insurance payout. So really, there is an insurance company or two out there that we should be short selling and that should be providing security on that lot.
Yet people are still buying them. Maybe one or two every other month, but there are still people buying them. I really do miss PSA’s. This would be a good opportunity for one. “Kids, always remember to punch a Nazi and flip their trucks. Geeee IIII JOOEEEE!!!”
You know who’s buying them, right? The PSAs would just make them want them more.
How does one so stupid get access to so much disposable income…
Credit.
Exploitation!
Trust fund?
Generational wealth.
the willingness to do morally questionable acts in order to accrue income. nothing gets you ahead in this world the way cheating gets you ahead.
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Crimes…
Contrary to previously aired propaganda, crime pays very well. as long as you’re good at it.
Hmmm.
So EVs are pretty simple machines. I think we can all agree on that. Like I am not a mechanic and I can work on these things (well maybe not the tires).
But the problem isn’t just that a single component in these things sucks, it’s the whole design. That being said, the motors, controllers, axles, sensors, etc, can’t all be entirely custom. I would be willing to bet there is a fair amount of useful shit we could “borrow” from unsupervised and unwanted cyber trucks to rebuild them into something much much better.
I have a friend that uses salvaged Model Y components to electrify RAM Promaster vans.
See!!! I knew it was a thing, this is brilliant!
Like Mechagodzilla?
Can we use the plans from the failed MechaStreisand and create a MechaO’Donnell to take on Trumpzilla
More like Mechashiva
or Voltron?
Giant Death Bot?
So some people can get free Power walls?
That’s just the BMS and battery really. There’s a whole lot more there.
I read that as POWER WHEELS and now I want a Tesla scrap powered adult sized ride-on toy.
I mean can you take the engine and battery to install on another chasis?
I wonder if a youtube enthusiast mad maxian mechanic got a few free cybertrucks to play with.
I bet he’d strip all the parts and make a few other retrofit EVs. I’d watch it.
No engine, they use motors. Generally 2 or 3 depending on trim level.
Gotcha. Clearly I know more than the average plebian about horseless carriages
It is somewhat pedantic on my part TBH.
Mildly but still a valid correction.
I’m used to far worse comments back in my reddit days.
Tesla’s Cybertruck is a big silver sales flop and that’s given the company several problems, including working out what to do with all the electric pickups it can’t sell.
Yes. That’s how you start a swastidumpster article.
But using the land for vehicle storage is against city code.
You can park your car in the parking lot, but not that car…
And dealers do not randomly park cars in parking lots without permission otherwise they would have been towed. The lot owner is getting paid.
A lot of municipalities have different rules and definitions for “parking” and “long-term parking.” In a lot of cases long-term parking is strictly prohibited in places where parking is otherwise encouraged. You can’t just leave your vehicle in one place.
You’ve got to move it, move it.
I like to.
MOVE IT!
I’m trying to figure out why someone would care. The mall is mostly closed. Yeah, the dealership must have paid the lot owner, so I don’t see the problem.
It’d be great if the ugly things didn’t exist, but since they do, they have to go somewhere.
They’re ugly. Probably lowering real estate values.
For a dead mall under redevelopment?
And the rest of the town.
they have to go somewhere.
Recycling plant?
Often it comes down to liability and an attractive nuisance. Long term parked vehicles create cover for activities, while short term traffic has a flow of people.
It’d be great if the ugly things didn’t exist, but since they do, they have to go somewhere.
Yes, recycling centers.
Makes it harder to spot the homeless people living in their cars that might want to park there for the night.
But using the land for
vehicledumpster storage is against city code. 😂Looking at the video, it’s not just trucks, it’s a whole lot of cars, too. At first I thought that was an active mall and those were cars of shoppers, but then you can tell that they’re all teslas.
I’ll take one for free
Yeah I don’t really care for them, but free? I will Nazi or hear anyone giving me a hard time in my fake DeLorean.
If I was given one for free I would take it, but even ignoring the whole Nazi thing completely, those trucks are completely impractical for my use, so I’d just immediately sell it on Craigslist or some shit for cheap to make a quick buck and keep driving my Ranger lol
I mean, if you are enterprising enough you can strip the car down, sell the stainless steel to a scrap yard; sell the interior, wheels and windshield to a salvage yard; and repurpose the batteries for an overkill off-grid home system!
