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    $tsla is down over 14% so far today. Such good work that has practical benefits that goes far beyond just symbolism. Much of Musk’s financial house of cards is banked on the perceived value of his Tesla shares. If those shares lose their value, a lot of lenders, like those who financed his twitter purchase, are going to call those loans. Without the money on paper, his political influence shrinks. Keep up the pressure. I myself had the pleasure of flipping off two cybertrucks yesterday.

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      If someone figures out a quick and efficient way to light their batteries on fire, they might be able to bankrupt Tesla in short order. Landlords would kick their showrooms for fear of building fires. People would stop buying due to fear of … fire. If on top of that a few Tesla parking lots with new cars became unfit for sale …

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        I’m not suggesting anything but RC cars with small propane torches mounted facing upwards might be a danger to Teslas. It might take one or two minutes though.

        Also, generally, in parking lots only one EV per row has to catch fire.

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          That’s an interesting idea. Light it up and then drive it under? Can be done from a distance. The flame isn’t too visible so won’t be too noticeable while the RC is moving. Once under the car, it would basically be invisible until the battery starts smoking. Yeah from entirely hypothetical engineering standpoint, this could cause an accident.

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            You don’t have to light it first. Just get an rc car with an extra button (like headlights) and solder some leads to create a spark instead

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        It’d be a pity if someone were to SSH into the car’s admin interface and screw up the battery controller’s thermal management software. They’re all always online.

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          Hopefully this is separated from typical software and can’t be just changed remotely

          Usually the hardware has some low level safety guards, and aren’t just done in high level software

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        arrows/bolts made primarily out of metal? now that i think about it, americans have a lot of handy tools that are quite a bit better at delivering metal, but loud

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          I thought lithium battery fires were caused by thermal runaway. Does piercing a lithium ion battery cause thermal runaway?

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              Okay that makes sense. I wondered why the person I replied to specified metal.

              I guess I had a bad recollection of Tesla adding plating to the bottom of their vehicle because (to my bad recollection), general non-Metallic road debris was piercing the battery compartment