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6+ Cybertrucks stranded in Asheville without power, stymying relief efforts
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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TBH, I think the sentiment is nice, leveraging a pre-existing community to materially help others is actually cool. I don't think it deserves dunking.
The Cybertruck obsession and common sense that's detached from reality is obviously concerning, but I ain't gonna dunk on someone for being well intentioned and stupid.
Cybertruck battery is around 123 kilowatt hours. Your average fridge takes 4 kilowatt hours over the course of a day.
Theoretically one cybertruck with enough extension cords and splitters, could power a handful of fridges for a couple days. Power fans or small AC units. And still have enough to get back to it charging station.
It's better than nothing, but you're also adding to the burden of rescue workers in the area. They already have to feed and take care of the residents, they don't want to have to take care of people providing mobile batteries.
If you live within a couple dozen miles of the affected areas it might be useful. Any farther than that and you're just going to be a burden.
I totally agree it's impractical.
There's a dozen organizations already set up to do exactly that the guy would just have to detach himself from his identity of cyber truck owner for 10 seconds and he could actually help.
I don't think it deserves dunking.
Feels like its just consumerist quick-fix nonsense. Even - hypothetically speaking - if you could get a hundred of these clumsy fire-prone death traps into Ashville and hooked up to the grid, why would you not do this with portable generators designed to provide power instead of a bunch of vehicles that would exhaust half their charge just reaching the location.
It reminds me of Musk's own brand of grandstanding. "Don't worry, we're going to invent a personal submarine to save some trapped cave divers! Don't worry, we're going to build tunnels all through the bedrock of your neighborhood to provide mass transit! Don't worry, we're going to end censorship once I buy Twitter and rebrand it The Everything App."
The Cybertruck obsession and common sense that's detached from reality is obviously concerning
It's not the obsession with your toy truck so much as the endless self-promotion and hustler-inspired consumerism. This could have been anything properly branded and promoted - electric trucks, cryptocurrency, Rick & Morty surplus apparel - and you'd have guys like this insisting it was a panacea. Just whatever's trending on social media.
"Hey, maybe Chappell Roan and Moo Deng can hold a benefit concert" sure to fill the space soon enough.
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Wha?? I assume it wouldn't be in dunk tank if you agreed it didn't deserve dunking.
It's dunkable cuz they literally say "let's go do a promo campaing for the bazinga truck in a place with no electricity", but maybe they do want to help, in any case, don't go to a place with no electricity with a fully electric vehicle
Just what you need after a natural disaster, 100 of the worst fucking people ever in your area
Everyone of them convinced they know more than anybody else there as they drive into moving water of unknown depth and become another person needing to be rescued.
Taking a shitty electric truck to a place that's largely without power seems like a poor idea.
They are not even hybrid right?
Not unless you strap a generator to the back.
Also there's no gas anywhere.
Guys should we send a bunch of electric vehicles to a town that is underwater and has no electricity?
If you can use then as portable batteries they might have value, probably not as good as a generator but what the hell
Does it really help much for your house to have power for an hour if you're counting on a cybertruck owner to act as an electrician and not fry your wiring and then leave his truck dead, blocking your driveway?
Haven't they suffered enough?
If you tell him it's a bad idea he'll call you a paedophile
I'm driving my electric truck down to place without power to provide power for 3-4 hours and then immediately getting stuck.
Assuming you arrived with a full charge, you could definitely provide rudimentary power for a couple homes for a day or two.
Seeing how these things like to catch fire after they are submerged, I would be very worried about taking them into a flooded disaster area.
Residents of Asheville with an electric car can hook their stuff up to it, they should be sharing it with their neighbors, but I'm not sure driving from California is going to be much help.
Direct action gets the goods!
Don't they permanently lock the doors and combust if they get wet though, and wouldn't that trap the owner insi-
This sounds very helpful actually.
The electronics bay is depressed inside the hood and poorly waterproofed, so water accumulates in the control electronics and the results are pretty random and pretty bad.
Great now on top of everybody else we've got dozens of dumbasses stuck in ditches and flooded parking lots insisting they get rescued first or else "their father's will hear of this"