Tesla owners fuming as they get £17,000 bill to fix car after 'driving in rain'

Wasn't like... a huge deal made about how the Teslas are so waterproof they could double as a boat? I mean they can in fact ford much deeper than ICE cars because they don't need air, but also there's definitely tweets about this.

Edit: he said it about both the cybertruck - loads of stories about this - and the model S: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21421/elon-musk-model-s-boat/

This is entirely separate of course from the much more basic issue that a car that breaks because of some fucking precipitation is not fit for purpose and this damage report would be indefensible just about anywhere in the world. Precedent for manufacturers taking responsibility for bad products was first established in Britain centuries ago.

An AI tool was used to add an extra layer to the editing process for this story.

For crying out loud, stop that!

Okay so for starters this article is clearly just a dig at Elon. If it wasn't they would never have mentioned him but Elon makes headlines.

Second, I don't buy it. We're getting one side of the story here. They've been selling these cars by the millions for years at this point. If the cars were failing "while driving in the rain", it would be a much bigger deal.

The " Elon Musk could buy everyone in the world a Tesla if he wanted to." line makes it clear that this is just more Elon/Tesla clickbait.

Elon Musk could buy everyone in the world a Tesla if he wanted to.

Well, that would be $ 314 562 157 350 000. in other words, 3 times the global yearly GDP. But one can hardly expect a common sense from a tesla owner :D /s

Doesn’t surprise me with those panel gaps.

This whole thread is a perfect example of "feeding the troll" :D

John said he pressed representatives of Tesla on whether he or Rob were at fault for the damage, to which he claims he was told that it was a weather issue. He added: "They said that the battery is effectively submerged in water. How can that be our fault?

The car got flooded, then? That's an insurance problem not a repair problem.

Due respect and support for Elon hatred, but this story is stupid. No one gets water ingress on a tesla battery from driving through puddles. The family didn't want to pay for it, the horrible "newd" organization (I refuse to even name them) knows mentioning Elon makes better news, and this whole thing is an insurance issue and somehow Elon is mentioned.

Quick, without looking, who is the CEO of Toyota, Honda, Chevrolet, or Ford?

Even if you know, who cares? Exactly.

Incredible. I clicked to read the article, but there was no article! A title and a sentence.

Nelson voice, points finger, Haha!!

Guinea pigs.

Let me guess: they got rear ended while driving in the rain and the repair bill is 17k

I have zero sympathy for anyone that bought anything connected to Phony Stark. Zilch.

You knew what you were buying into - you live with it.

idc about this post but i clicked on the article anyway to see gay people

that's so cool..

Stop reposting Elon articles.

Lmao at the mass downvotes from Musk stans

Reminder to everyone in this thread: BEVs are a doomed technology. The fundamental high cost and resource requirements of the battery dooms it to inevitable failure. Luckily, superior technology like FCEVs are coming along now. They won't have this problem. So if you actually cared about solving climate change, you'll endorse FCEVs, just like any other kind of zero emission car. Even if you don't agree with me, you should still support anything that can get us off of fossil fuels. There is no coherent reason to oppose green technology after all.

But of course, this is not the case. Many people here have either been brainwashed by Elon Musk, or have some financial motive like investments in BEV companies. As a result, they do not care for any kind of alternative to the BEV. They only want the BEV. And they will lie and BS endlessly to prop up their favored technology.

Unfortunately, reality does not care for your opinions. The BEV is a dead-end, and always will be. You can't save it by lying to yourself or others. You have no choice to admit the truth. By not doing so, you are just becoming another group of conspiracy theorists or science deniers. We make fun of anti-vaxxers or climate deniers, and eventually we will make fun of hydrogen deniers. That is the eventual outcome if you cannot change your mind.

BEVs are a dead-end technology. It just replaces an unsustainable dependency on fossil fuels with an unsustainable dependency on batteries and battery-related mining.

In reality, the future will be hydrogen cars, with an outside chance of synfuel/e-fuel cars.

EDIT: Sorry, but no amount of lying to yourself will make BEVs a viable technology. It is a dead-end and always will be.