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It was a bit of a rhetorical question. EV fires are way less common than gas car fires.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/electric-car-fire-statistics.html
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/01/actually-evs-dont-catch-on-fire-as-frequently-as-gas-powered-cars-do/
Also, CATL makes most of Tesla's batteries, so they are subject to more QA than Tesla, though some are assembled in Nevada.
Bottom line, make fun of Tesla for the actual shitty things they do, don't perpetuate unfounded rumors
The Cybertruck is very much an actual shitty thing that Tesla does. Sure, maybe they don't literally "have a habit of exploding all on their own," but I don't think Gork was exactly trying to play off as an authority on the topic. Just mocking Cybertrucks being shit.
Nobody's attacking EVs writ large, here. Just Elon and his awful ideas.
I'm orange pilled so I agree it's bad, but I can't see anything but aesthetics that makes it any worse than any other light truck commonly used as urban transport.
Sure Musk inspired it and set its target specifications and price, but it was Tesla engineers who designed it, Tesla factory workers who built it and Musk's companies don't seem to have suffered from his fall from popularity
Have you read news stories about the truck? Here's one https://www.torquenews.com/17612/my-cybertruck-dead-tesla-cannot-open-it-they-dont-know-what-happened-it-feels-without-power and there's so many more