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Tesla Cybertruck owner incinerated alive after electric vehicle crashed and burst into flames
Breitbart ^ | Aug 7, 2024 | Lucal Nolan

Posted on 08/07/2024 12:46:41 PM PDT by Paal Gulli

Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash in Texas Raises Concerns over EV Safety

In a tragic incident near Houston, Texas, a Tesla Cybertruck owner was incinerated alive after the electric vehicle crashed and burst into flames.

KHOU reports that the fatal crash, believed to be the first for the new Tesla Cybertruck, occurred at 1:45 a.m. on Monday, just off the east Texas coast. According to police reports, the trendy but troubled EV veered off Cedar Parkway in the Baytown area for unknown reasons and crashed into a concrete drainage channel or culvert. The intense fire that followed left the owner’s body and the truck’s identifying features, such as license plates and VIN, unrecognizable among the char.

Local authorities, along with the federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), are investigating the cause of the deadly incident. The Cybertruck, once touted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as “apocalypse proof,” has faced numerous safety issues since its debut in late November 2023, requiring no less than four recalls...

...Read more at KHOU here.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: apocalypseonwheels; automotive; cybertruck; ecars; ev; evaccidents; fire; houston; tesla; texas
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1 posted on 08/07/2024 12:46:41 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

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2 posted on 08/07/2024 12:48:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Paal Gulli
"HAL unlock the doors!!!!!"

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

3 posted on 08/07/2024 12:53:33 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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just off the east Texas coast

They were using the Cybertruck as a boat?

4 posted on 08/07/2024 12:58:25 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Paal Gulli
...the [Cybertruck] has faced criticism for prioritizing design aesthetics over safety.

LOL...imagine if they WANTED to design a vehicle Gawd-awful aesthetics!


5 posted on 08/07/2024 12:58:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Paal Gulli

Burst into flame? Did he have gasoline cans in the back? Come on, it was an EV. Yeah, I know.


6 posted on 08/07/2024 12:58:58 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ponygirl

Tucker Carlson just did a review with one of his local buddies up in the back woods of Maine. They drove the Cyber Truck around on back roads. They were using it to haul a trailer full of earth/soil.

Most of the fun was the banter of these salt of the earth Yankees. Men who work in the woods of Maine/NH. Guys who typically drive F250s and other pick up trucks on roads that are not necessarily paved. They actually put things in the bed of these trucks too. Heavy, dirty things.


7 posted on 08/07/2024 12:59:57 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Paal Gulli

elon bad. right on queue.


8 posted on 08/07/2024 1:01:36 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LOL! Yes!


9 posted on 08/07/2024 1:05:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Paal Gulli

It seems the media only rights negative articles about one brand of EV - Tesla. Surely there are issues with the other brands of EVs?


10 posted on 08/07/2024 1:05:38 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Paal Gulli

It’s “apocalypse proof,” because it will bring its own, to you, before any other apocalypse can hurt you.


11 posted on 08/07/2024 1:07:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Paal Gulli

So a long, straight roadway outside of town near a warehouse district. Probably racing.


12 posted on 08/07/2024 1:07:21 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Is that the one they shot at, probably.

Carlson showed off his early (1987?) non electronics pickup.


13 posted on 08/07/2024 1:07:22 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Paal Gulli

I was passed by one of those things about 2-3 weeks ago

Driver was weaving that behemoth, wildly, through busy late night traffic

Like a few H2 guys I’ve seen, frankly


14 posted on 08/07/2024 1:10:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ConservativeMind

“It’s “apocalypse proof,” because it will bring its own, to you, before any other apocalypse can hurt you.”

In the apocalypse you go poof.


15 posted on 08/07/2024 1:10:40 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Paal Gulli
Even the truck’s identifying features, such as license plates and VIN, were unrecognizable among the char.

All that was left of the vehicles occupant was a tar like material.

16 posted on 08/07/2024 1:11:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thing is way uglier than a Pontiac Aztec.

Which is pretty impressive, actually…


17 posted on 08/07/2024 1:25:26 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Cold Heart
The Cybertruck that Musk blasted with the machine gun is in the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, My son and I saw it in May this year. It was crammed in with lots of other vehicles in the basement, er, "shop tour."

There's actually no shop to tour in the basement -- just LOTS of cars not on display in the main galleries upstairs. But you get a private tour guide and a couple of hours down there before it opens to the public. Our guide was SO smart!


18 posted on 08/07/2024 1:27:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: GaltAdonis

We see a few every day here in Silicon Valley. It just doesn’t get any better with time.


19 posted on 08/07/2024 1:28:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Paal Gulli
...but troubled EV veered off Cedar Parkway in the Baytown area for unknown reasons

1:45 a.m. I can guess a reason.

20 posted on 08/07/2024 1:30:40 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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