UPDATE: the battery fire obviously didn’t help, but according to new reporting it turns out that the Cybertruck really did trap the victims inside.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/620960
This accident could be a scene in a horror movie.
I’m not a Tesla fan by any measure, but I edited the headline for this post. The original headline made it seem like a specific feature of the Cybertruck trapped the victims, but then the article explains it was really that the battery was burning so fiercely that the police just couldn’t free them. The deadly feature of the accident was the lithium battery, which is common to many makes and manufacturers of EVs.
Maybe I’m being too fair, but the article didn’t mention anything about the doors being stuck closed. The version I read only said that the fire was too intense for the police to rescue the occupants. For what it’s worth, this article lists numerous fires involving Volkswagen EVs.