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Tesla Showroom in Southern UK Damaged By Accidental Fire (bbc.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the putting-out-fires dept.

AppleHoshi writes: The BBC is reporting that an accidental fire at Tesla's Gatwick Service Centre in the U.K. has damaged "at least half" of the facility. Initial reports are that the fire did not begin in the service area itself, but started in a parts storage area and spread from there. The fire was extinguished within three hours and no staff or customers were injured.
The fire "was not caused by Tesla cars, chargers or batteries," according to the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service.

40 comments

  1. That's ok by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    Tesla is closing its showrooms anyway.

    1. Re:That's ok by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1

      Hmmm... I guess a fire would conveniently allow for a bit of a payoff for that closing showroom...

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    2. Re: That's ok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Elon is South African, not Jewish.

      Baby Troll, the best trolls have an element of truth. You totally fucked this one up. You had an opportunity to talk about how a rich, white South African oppressor burned his building in an effort to kill nearby black people. But, you blew it. Troll harder, Baby Troll.

    3. Re:That's ok by whoever57 · · Score: 1

      You didn't even read the summary, did you:

      Tesla's Gatwick Service Centre

      Not a showroom. A workshop.

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    4. Re:That's ok by ClickOnThis · · Score: 1

      You didn't even read the summary, did you:

      Tesla's Gatwick Service Centre

      Not a showroom. A workshop.

      This. The Slashdot headline says "Showroom" but you (rightly) point out that it's actually a service centre.

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    5. Re:That's ok by ClickOnThis · · Score: 1

      You didn't even read the summary, did you:

      Tesla's Gatwick Service Centre

      Not a showroom. A workshop.

      This. The Slashdot headline says "Showroom" but you (rightly) point out that it's actually a service centre.

      Well, wait a minute. TFA says that a showroom was damaged, but that the fire didn't start there. So apparently there was a showroom on the site.

      Per TFS, the fire service says "The cause of the fire is under investigation but was not caused by Tesla cars, chargers or batteries,"

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    6. Re: That's ok by segedunum · · Score: 1

      You got the *nationality* right. Not the obvious religious heritage. Try harder anonymous sweetheart.

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... A bird shit on a Tesla! This is clearly a design flaw in Tesla!!!

    In all seriousness, this is nothing more than clickbait for /. to post.

    I'm all for bashing Tesla and their smug ownership cult but come the frack on! There's zero value in this article.

    1. Re:In other news... by AlanObject · · Score: 1, Funny

      ... A bird shit on a Tesla! This is clearly a design flaw in Tesla!!!

      And of course it finally proves -- as if we needed it -- that Musk is a delusional fraud.

  3. Why is this news? by Enigma2175 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a fire in a car showroom is international news now? I don't recall all the stories about fires in Ford or BMW showrooms, although such fires happen. It seems someone still is trying to make people think "Tesla == Fire", most likely someone who has a great deal to lose if Tesla does well.

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    1. Re:Why is this news? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Informative

      Even worse, why is it here? Even things that *are* international news do not necessarily belong here.

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    2. Re:Why is this news? by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

      Clearly Tesla would be level 5 autonomous by now if people didn't keep setting them back by setting fire to their showrooms.

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    3. Re:Why is this news? by Enigma2175 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Because the fire was started by one of their shit cars.

      From the fucking summary: "was not caused by Tesla cars, chargers or batteries,". Seriously, the summary is 83 words, you can't read that much before you start spouting off your uninformed opinions?

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    4. Re:Why is this news? by Gavagai80 · · Score: 1

      The news is that it's not news: that is, the news is that the fire had nothing to do with Tesla batteries. In other news, SpaceX isn't responsible for the recent Soyuz failures and Elon Musk didn't eat a baby.

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    5. Re:Why is this news? by squiggleslash · · Score: 2

      Well, Musk just announced he was closing the showrooms. For financial reasons. We had two stories posted to the Slashdot front page about that.

      Then they mysteriously burn down. Which means a showroom that was effectively a write off is now an insurance settlement.

      This is obviously great news and not suspicious at all, so Tesla will be able to use the money to save its business and use it to fund more space missions for convertibles.

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    6. Re:Why is this news? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2

      :sigh: You clicked, you commented, they won.

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    7. Re:Why is this news? by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 1

      Here's some news reports on ford dealerships and BMW dealerships within the last 6 months.

      Looks like mostly local newspaper/TV sites, though.

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    8. Re:Why is this news? by ClickOnThis · · Score: 2

      Well, Musk just announced he was closing the showrooms. For financial reasons. We had two stories posted to the Slashdot front page about that.

      Then they mysteriously burn down. Which means a showroom that was effectively a write off is now an insurance settlement.

      This is obviously great news and not suspicious at all, so Tesla will be able to use the money to save its business and use it to fund more space missions for convertibles.

      Any insurance settlement they get will be a drop in the bucket compared to the other business and financial challenges faced by Tesla.

      Until I hear about evidence of arson, or widespread destruction of Tesla showrooms in the next few months, I'm going with Hanlon's Razor.

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    9. Re:Why is this news? by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 0

      Good old wc at work.

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    10. Re: Why is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      *whoosh*

    11. Re:Why is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So a fire in a car showroom is international news now?

      Pay attention, please. It's not international news, the link is on bbc.com which means it's British press (for some decreasing values of press) writing about an incident in the UK.

      As to why it's on /. (which doesn't make it international news either, unless you want your news to be warmed-up leftovers from last week), why, that's obvious. Look at your own reaction, you hit the reply button before even thinking enough about it. Ka-ching! (a.k.a. it's all about page views)

  4. Re:BBC reported WTC7 collapsed by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

    "Fake news" generally refers to intentional lies, not to honest mistakes in reporting.

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  5. lol by Hugh+Jorgen · · Score: 1

    "Accidental" I just picture Dr Evil saying "Accidental."

  6. Itâ(TM)s obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I donâ(TM)t know any of the pertinent facts, but there is obviously something wrong here, and Tesla will cover it up, as always.

    1. Re:Itâ(TM)s obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I donâ(TM)t know any of the pertinent facts,

      Then you should stop typing and press "Cancel". Oh no, too late...

      but there is obviously something wrong here,

      According to TFS/TFA, the fire was not caused by Tesla cars, chargers, or batteries. Until we know the "pertinent facts" (including how the fire started) then we can't conclude there is "something wrong" other than a fire happened.

      and Tesla will cover it up, as always.

      Citation?

  7. Re:BBC reported WTC7 collapsed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Fake News" refers to anything that proves definitively that Donald Trump is a lying faggot, traitor, Putin dick cozy, etc.

  8. Last recorded audio from the scene by Provocateur · · Score: 1

    Hey, buddy! This is a No smoking ---

    The rest of the message was not recovered, though. Fire scene investigators could not be reached for further comments.

    The facility is currently off-limits.

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  9. Arkancide. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He could have brought down the democrats. Only one awan brother left to go!

    https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/davie/fl-ne-davie-tesla-crash-fole-20190225-story.html

    Noodles is on the job.

  10. Re:BBC reported WTC7 collapsed by Joce640k · · Score: 1

    before it actually did. So either they're fake news or they were part of the plot, take your pick libtards.

    It's almost as if you don't know there's a time zone difference between the USA and the UK.

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