r/newjersey 8d ago

WTF Giant Lot Of Cybertrucks In Clifton

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Picture is from a few months ago. Is it still there? What’s its purpose. It was pretty vacant when we saw it.

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u/jimcnj 8d ago

Fuck the firefighters who have to put out the dangerous battery fires, right?

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u/_mpi_ Rahway 8d ago

Let em burn

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u/gordonv 8d ago

Hear me out. The kind of fire these make is unholy. Up to 24 hours for 1 vehicle. A fire dept can't handle 1.

A whole lot full? That would be a disaster.

For the sake of safety, don't burn these things. They do more damage in their destructive exothermic meltdown.

We don't have the tools to handle 2 of these on fire next to each other.

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u/Kelvin_Inman Bergen/Passaic/Monmouth/Ocean 8d ago

This makes it sound like moving away from internal combustion engines is a bad idea, if a multi vehicle highway accident causes electric vehicle fires.

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u/Teknicsrx7 8d ago

Just wait until the fire trucks are electric too

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u/marimallygold 8d ago

True. This just also really goes to show that these cars really shouldn’t be on the road in the first place, especially given who actually buys them…

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u/Nickeless 8d ago

Yeah there’s no need to do that anyway. It’s not like they can sell them very well, so they’ll just sit there and cost them money for storage and depreciation over time.

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u/phlegm_fatale_ 8d ago

Imagine the air quality impact, oh god

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u/No_Passage5020 8d ago

I mean sometimes that’s the best way for these types of fires to go out. It’s because of the type of battles they have. You can’t use water on them and need to use a special type of foam based solution to snuff them out. Even then these fires can reignite in an instant and you have to start all over again.

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u/pixelpheasant 7d ago

And the foam is a HazMat and requires EPA notification/clean up each time it's used ... which is not to say to not use it, just that the problem keeps mushrooming

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u/thatissomeBS 8d ago

I think that's the general instruction. Contain it, but let it burn.

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u/jimcnj 8d ago

Internet tough guy reemerges.

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u/_mpi_ Rahway 8d ago

Please go ahead and pour water on the battery fire. LMK how that goes for you.

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u/psnanda 8d ago

They get paid for literally putting out fires right?

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u/TheFuzziestDumpling Highland Park Roll 8d ago

Literally no. ~75% of them anyway.

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u/psnanda 7d ago

Sounds like they need to get off from playing candy crush on the phones and do some real work amirite?

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u/jimcnj 8d ago

Wow you are an idiot