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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.

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  1. 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 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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    3. 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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    4. Re:Why is this news? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2

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

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    5. 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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