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- 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.
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Same thing is happening in Europe with Chinese EVs. Chinese EVs are piling up at European ports because they’ve gone unsold and the carmakers were way too optimistic or it’s some sort of book keeping trickery to rack up the sales figures.
Is that still the case though? I can only find articles from 2024 about this
Executive bonus target, deliver x number of cars in Europe. Job done!
Pretty decent scam rent a stall in the mall as your sales room and use the parking lot for free storage
Until the vehicles get towed overnight
Tennants are allowed parking
If the tenancy agreement allows parking to the extent that it can be used as dealership vehicle storage, what’s the scam?
Because they aren’t using it for an actual dealer they just pay whatever small lease price to store cars. Normally if they leased a space big enough for all the cars and a functioning dealership they would spend significantly more.
So the scam is getting a favorable lease from a very in need landlord hoping to drive foot traffic only to actually have no one go there ever while your cars rot in the sun.
Tow them and fine them. Simple as that.
Towing them without putting them in tow mode will total them.
These ugly things need to be in “tow mode”?
I was going to say what a stupid idea, but that’s just the tip of the stupid ice berg.
Any vehicle with AWD has special towing considerations.
For the owner, yes. For the tower, no.
Ah thank you! today I learned. Also learned that I’m part of the inferior fwd race.
Even better.
… 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.
Tow trucks have never cared about wrecking their cargo before. Why should they care for Cybertrucks?
Sounds like the vehicle owners’ problem. “Unauthorized vehicles will be towed at the owners expense.”
Oh well.
Here’s a lot I pass by every day.
But using the land for
vehicledumpster storage is against city code. 😂Can’t the city claim eminent domain on them and then sell them at auction?
That is a lengthy court process. Just call in an anonymous tip to the cops that they’re being used to smuggle drugs, and they can civil forfeiture them. Then police auction
That’s not a terrible idea. But it does put the proceeds in the hands of the cops.
Sell them for pennies to the US military. They can use them as incendiary devices.
Yeah that’s what we should do. Give Elon Musk a massive defense contract for his garbage vehicles
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
They wouldnt even make good range targets because theyre likely to spontaniously combust
Ever hear of tannerite?
I’ll take one for $1
I don’t know if I would. I don’t want the analytics and tracking on me.
What are you going to do with it, haul four-foot boards on flat paved roads?
Fuck that, pay me to get rid of that for you
$1.01
That’s to rich for my blood.
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
Elmo would remotely brick them out of spite if that happened.
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.
Fucking tow em.
Plug them into the grid and use the damn storage.
Or take the batteries and do it more efficiently.
Fuck those stupid cars.
Outside of the environment you say?..
The sides fell off?
Possibly better than the front falling off.
Scrap’em
Put 'em in a stew
Cy-ber-trucks
There is probably a lot of battery cells that can be salvaged.
And charge them fees. Just like they’d do to any individual. The city could make some real bank.
Ah, they’re parked on private property, which means the property owner needs to have them towed. Which means the city has to notify the property owner (they have) ahead of the city doing the tow order. That it’s a derelict shopping mall means that the property owner likely doesn’t care. There’s also the complication of the city not wanting to piss off a commercial property owner.
But yeah, the end result should be towing, with daily storage fees racking up until Tesla comes and pays up. Tow lots don’t fuck around.
The only caveat is that they’re violating zoning codes. That means the city can directly act on it.
Of course, they likely have to go through the notification process before towing them, but they probably don’t have to have the property owners permission to do so. More likely they’ll warn the property owner a few times, then send them the bill for towing.
I imagine the city can tow, after following some kind of notification schedule. But the property owner isn’t going to pay the bill; not their vehicles, why would they give a fuck? Tesla is going to argue that the property owner should pay, since the violation is against the property owner. Tesla might not care, either, they’ve got nothing to do with the vehicles since nobody wants to buy them. If you just leave them in the impound lot, there’s no bill to pay. Since they’re unsold vehicles, there aren’t even titles for the city to put a lien on for the impound fee.
On the other hand, I know where a bunch of Crybertrucks (I’m leaving it) are, in case anyone has a bunch of extra spray paint they need to use up.
Because the property owner is responsible for the things on their property, especially if they’re violating code. It’s the property owner’s responsibility to have them removed, even if they don’t own them, so if they don’t after being warned and the city hauls them off, they can get stuck with the bill for the tow.
They won’t have to pay for the storage of the trucks, though. Just the initial tow. Then they can sue whomever dumped them to try to recoup the cost.
But literally all they have to do is call a towing company who would be more than happy to remove them.
They’re probably hoping they get vandalized so they can collect insurance on them
MTIPGU
(Make Tesla Insurance Premiums Go Up)
That it’s a derelict shopping mall means that the property owner likely doesn’t care.
Reasonable guess is that Tesla is paying rent to the mall owner. Is it usual to store unsold cars out in the open for long periods? I know they sit in outdoor new car lots at dealerships, but I figured maybe it usually wasn’t for very long.
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So just tow them all and impound them.
I suspect that the impoundment lot is far smaller than the disused shopping center parking lot.
I think they should just let Tesla store them there and ask Tesla for some fee for use of the thing. I really don’t think that having them there is likely very harmful to the area.
If it’s a code violation for the poors it should be a code violation for tesIa. I guarantee if one of us parked a vehicle there for more than a couple days it would be gone.
We can stack them sideways in a tile pattern.
It’s likely the land owner IS renting the lot to whomever currently owns the Teslas.
The city however noticed and notified the landowner that it’s not zoned for storage.
Ah that makes sense.
Like yes, no one is going to park millions of dollars without having some agreement with someone… Your take is likely what happened.
Wow, that sounds like announcing a really juicy target for certain people. But if those vehicles were to sustain damage, that might mean an insurance payout. So really, there is an insurance company or two out there that we should be short selling and that should be providing security on that lot.
Oh no, I really hope some locals don’t vandalize these valuable assets in this unguarded lot…
It would mean an insurance payout.
I’m sure the insurance would have a good argument about the high risk of leaving them in such an insecure location.
I’m surprised they can get insurance at all after all that has happened.
Give them to homeless people as shelter and give them a charging spot.
Why would they want a “shelter” that leaks and randomly catches on fire?
That’s how you sell the plan to republican lawmakers.
Looking at the video, it’s not just trucks, it’s a whole lot of cars, too. At first I thought that was an active mall and those were cars of shoppers, but then you can tell that they’re all teslas.
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.
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