Tesla Dumping Unsold Cybertrucks At Mall Parking Lot And The City’s Fed Up | Carscoops
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Detroit’s planning and community chief told the run-down lot’s landlord that storage of vehicles was not a permitted use of the land
  • 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.
  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 days ago

    Lithium is pretty stable. Those dumbtrucks will rot there for some time, then got reposessed and eventually moved to a recycling plant, and almost all of the lithium will eventually be used for something useful.

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      4·
      2 days ago

      They probably won’t even actually recycle the batteries. The packs and batteries are still gonna be good. They’ll just pull the whole battery packs out and use them in other vehicles or stationary storage.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 days ago

        Probably. Unless it’s something very proprietary that is specifically incompatible with everything, I wouldn’t put that past the current Tesla people.

        • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Jerryrigeverything has already demonstrated Tesla packs can be used for other vehicles. He made an electric military humvee.

          • Nalivai@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            Afaik, both him, Superfast Matt, and others were using packs from the comparatively sane Teslas, ones that were designed by engineers, not by a child with dementia. I am afraid to assume what the poorly rendered rustbucket is made of.