Posted on 08/22/2019 4:30:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Walmart sued Tesla for "gross negligence" on Tuesday, claiming that the electric car company's energy division installed solar panels that went up in flames on its store rooftops. The fires caused millions of dollars in damage, the lawsuit alleges.
The retailer said fires broke out at seven store rooftops between 2012 and 2018. One location in Ohio had to be closed for eight days, Walmart said in the complaint. The lawsuit claims Tesla never provided Walmart with an explanation for the "root cause" of the fires.
"The number of defects, however, is overwhelming and plainly indicative of systemic, widespread failures by Tesla to meet the standard of care, as set forth in the governing contracts, as to the solar systems installed at Walmart's stores," the lawsuit claims.
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Even if they have to close a store for a few hours they can easily loose 5 figures of sales, plus paying wages of employees outside, OT for employees to re-stock abandoned carts, damaged perishable times left in said carts and possible loss of perishable product if the FD had to shut down all power to the store.
They were planning on burning them but some got started early?
Yes, I get it! But my point was that the headline was sensationalistic, not that Walmart didn’t suffer real losses.
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