Vandals In Amsterdam Are Torching Tesla Vehicles

A Tesla Model S and X recently met an unfortunate end in Vondelstraat, Amsterdam. The two electric vehicles, both of which were parked on the street, were set on fire by vandals in an act that witnesses described as deliberate and planned.

The two ill-fated Teslas were parked within 100 meters of each other. According to a local resident who witnessed the incident, the vandals who committed the attack on the electric vehicles were clearly focused on the cars.

“That’s no coincidence. It’s an expensive car. One was here, I saw it from my balcony. The other around the corner at the Vondel Church. Another car was damaged, but that was because it was so close,” the local resident said, according to an Echt Amsterdams Nieuws report.

zlives - 1/16/2018 3:01:55 PM

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maybe Tesla should make the car out of the tire compound...
just seems weird that tires would survive a car fire... or is that notrmal? i don;t really know.

mre30 - 1/16/2018 4:58:56 PM

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Maybe the "Uberspies" are torching Tesla's too, in addition to stealing trade secrets?

MDarringer - 1/16/2018 9:19:15 PM

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Love it.

SanJoseDriver - 1/17/2018 2:42:09 AM

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*hole comment

MDarringer - 1/17/2018 8:02:06 AM

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predictable triggered snowflake unicorn response I knew I could provoke in you

SanJoseDriver - 1/23/2018 1:19:09 AM

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Joking about a vandalism like this is only something a true douchebag would do. I could care less if you suck off Trump each night, but at least be a decent human being to others unlike the bigot you worship.

SanJoseDriver - 1/24/2018 12:21:37 AM

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Only safer for car salesmen that won't have jobs for much longer.

TomM - 1/17/2018 6:33:59 AM

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While rubber itself has a melting point of about 300 Degrees - the RUbber in Tires is Vulcanized - sulphur is added which raises the melting point to over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit(over 600 degrees Celsius) . WHile you may have "softening" of a tire - tires actually do not melt much - and the temperature of a burning car does not approach that of the melting point of a tire - especially when you remove volatile carbon compounds like gas from the equation.

TomM - 1/17/2018 6:34:00 AM

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While rubber itself has a melting point of about 300 Degrees - the RUbber in Tires is Vulcanized - sulphur is added which raises the melting point to over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit(over 600 degrees Celsius) . WHile you may have "softening" of a tire - tires actually do not melt much - and the temperature of a burning car does not approach that of the melting point of a tire - especially when you remove volatile carbon compounds like gas from the equation.

vdiv - 1/17/2018 11:29:27 AM

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Not happy at all, that's why they bought so many of them...

bw5011 - 1/17/2018 2:06:14 PM

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This is crazy. The car(s) haven't done anything to anybody. Such a cowardly act!!!