- Farmington Hills officials are fuming over a glut of unsold Cybertrucks being stored in the city.
- Tesla has been parking the EVs at a shopping center earmarked for major redevelopment.
- Officials say the electric vehicles violate zoning codes and are warning the property owner.
The property owners should seize them for unpaid storage fee’s. That has happened in my state. Putting your property on someone elses property is considered a tacit admission of a debt when it comes to storage. Ironically there is another law that states you can’t charge for more than six months storage without a signed agreement. However there is nothing regulating how much that fee is. Case in point a person failed to pick up late model car at a towing company for two years. The towing company gave the owner a huge bill and they went to court to get it reduced to six months. The towing company just resubmitted a bill for six months at a increased rate that equaled the amount of the original bill. By the time the asshole who should have come and got their car sooner got through the bill had went up again. It was quite entertaining. to watch.
Aren’t these atrocities full of nice lithium batteries? If so, confiscated cars can be scraped for parts with the batteries going to hospitals, schools, the ACAB offices and fire departments to be used as backup electricity.
Here’s a lot I pass by every day.
But using the land for vehicle storage is against city code.
You can park your car in the parking lot, but not that car…
And dealers do not randomly park cars in parking lots without permission otherwise they would have been towed. The lot owner is getting paid.
God the environmental damage caused by making all these batteries, only to be used in a cyber truck and dumped in a car park.
Remember when Elon was pretending to be saving the environment, well now he isn’t.
Elon was always about making money. The marketing department was all about saving things.
The batteries could be salvaged and used for something useful.
EVs were never about saving the environment. It does so much damage making a new EV. If companies wanted to save the environment they would have invested in refurbishing and updating older used cars.
EDIT: Sad how many ignorant people are down voting this without even attempting to look up the environmental cost of making a brand new car loading with rare earth minerals. While destroying a slightly older car that’s already been built and whose environmental impact has already been dealt with and would best be put to use rather than sit in a junk yard for 50 years.
Too many corporate boot lickers believing the car companies based on nothing more than “Green” buzz words.
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It is technically recyclable, but it’s so cost prohibitive compared to just building new that no one really does it at this point. Maybe someday.
You say that like it’s already happening at scale. Get real.
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The most environmentally friendly thing you can do as a car owner is just keep the oldest car u have alive as long as possible. Cash for lunkers wasn’t about getting people in cleaner cars, it was about subsidizing companies so they could sell more while destroying perfectly good vehicles. This shredded the used car market and we are paying for it now. Literally. If you need to get a new car anyways, sure an ev or hybrid might be the way. But keeping a stinky old diesel running, while it may seem counterintuitive, is the cleaner thing to do. What we wmit driving pails in comparison to the production pollution associated with all these throw away cars.
The most environmentally friendly thing you can do as a car owner is stop being one. Ride a bike. Take Mass Transit. Walk.
Spoken like a true pedestrian. I live in one of the bigger “cities” in my state and it’s smaller than a “small town” in the last state I lived in, not having a car here is impossible. The most environmentally friendly thing to do would be abandon all technology and eat berries in a cave and die at 30 because of poor hygiene, your comment is irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
Don’t worry about it. You’ll be dead from a multiple simultaneous crises. Your car won’t save you.
We in the “rich” world already have a housing crisis where masses would love a cave over their current sleeping rough. Berries would be nice too and hunger is all too well known in the developed world.
You are way out of touch. Congratulations to be so fortunate.
That’s a great idea unless you are rural. City folks can do these things far easier than people that the nearest store is 10 miles away.
Ride a horse! ;)
keeping a horse is a very expensive thing you know… lol
Compared to what? Horses are 100% recyclable and biodegradeable.
Cars, even ev’s. Not so much.
Fuck off, shill.
Well if they’re just abandoning them, then the city should seize them and start selling them for parts. I know most of it is garbage but surely parts of it can go to something more useful.
The article didn’t do their research but certainly implies it’s the landlord making a quick buck on storage fees why waiting for redevelopment to start
There’s this weird parking ramp by old work. I took a drive through it once to see if they happened to have a L2 charger in it and it appeared to be all rental cars from one of the really budget rental companies.
Budget?
Lol. It was actually Advantage.
Yeah those batteries are valuable
Can’t the city claim eminent domain on them and then sell them at auction?
Sell them for pennies to the US military. They can use them as incendiary devices.
Use them as target practice or give them to fire departments to train on extinguishing lithium fires.
I don’t think lithium fires can be extinguished. I thought dumping sand on them might be a solution but a commenter mentioned that the fire is self oxidizing and basically you just have to wait for it to end, while maybe cooking it with water a bit as it burns.
There he goes again - saving the government money. /S
Yeah that’s what we should do. Give Elon Musk a massive defense contract for his garbage vehicles
Elmo would remotely brick them out of spite if that happened.
Tow them and fine them. Simple as that.
Towing them without putting them in tow mode will total them.
Even better.
Oh well.
Tow trucks have never cared about wrecking their cargo before. Why should they care for Cybertrucks?
… What does that mean?
Every one of these that gets towed unexpectedly is totalled?
You have to use a flatbed tow truck, same as Subarus and other AWD cars.
But using the land for
vehicledumpster storage is against city code. 😂Some of those trucks ended up stored at a run-down mall in Farmington Hills outside of Detroit in Michigan. Unsurprisingly, local officials are not happy about it.
Lol, he’s not even trying to hide them anymore. I would like to see pics of these trucks *from afar at the rundown mall. It sounds very dystopian to see, Mad Max like.
Edit: The pics they show don’t show the mall in the background and how empty it looks.
Bringing the property value down.
Someone call a bomb squad. There are a bunch of terrorist bombs disguised as tesla cars in parking lots. I heard it’s complicated to defuse, so I think we should just conduct a controlled detonation on these obvious terrorist cars. 😏
Nah thry catch fire if soray em with water.
Tesla’s Cybertruck is a big silver sales flop and that’s given the company several problems, including working out what to do with all the electric pickups it can’t sell.
Yes. That’s how you start a swastidumpster article.
The city should just confiscate all of them. I mean, at this point they are abandoned on city property.
And send Tesla the bill for recycling cost
And do what with them? Seems like an unnecessary hassle.
Scrap them, and also fine the fuck out of Tesla for it.
If they did it proper and put it in the paper for 2 weeks that they have to be claimed by Tesler, then they can auction them off. Even bricked they have to be worth more in parts than scrap…
Did he park them in a lot away from cameras, hoping there would be some “demonstrations” that would then allow him to claim insurance money? Does the policy cover “domestic terrorism”?
So just tow them all and impound them.
