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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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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tow them and fine them. Simple as that.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Towing them without putting them in tow mode will total them.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 2 days ago

Sounds like the vehicle owners' problem. "Unauthorized vehicles will be towed at the owners expense."

Even better.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] KingBoo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

.. What does that mean?

Every one of these that gets towed unexpectedly is totalled?

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[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Aren’t these atrocities full of nice lithium batteries? If so, confiscated cars can be scraped for parts with the batteries going to hospitals, schools, the ACAB offices and fire departments to be used as backup electricity.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised nobody has stolen the rims or the batteries, or even tried to steal the catalytic converter.

[–] 2lama@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What catalytic converter? They're electric.

The metal body panels that have just been haphazardly hung onto the frame on the other hand...

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] 2lama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Haha, nice one. Now I'm just imagining some methhead cutting into random parts of one of these things trying to find the nonexistent catalytic converter.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 3 points 1 day ago

You sly fox

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The property owners should seize them for unpaid storage fee's. That has happened in my state. Putting your property on someone elses property is considered a tacit admission of a debt when it comes to storage. Ironically there is another law that states you can't charge for more than six months storage without a signed agreement. However there is nothing regulating how much that fee is. Case in point a person failed to pick up late model car at a towing company for two years. The towing company gave the owner a huge bill and they went to court to get it reduced to six months. The towing company just resubmitted a bill for six months at a increased rate that equaled the amount of the original bill. By the time the asshole who should have come and got their car sooner got through the bill had went up again. It was quite entertaining. to watch.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 2 days ago

Everywhere you look in Illinois you'll see variations of "unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense." So I don't know what those guys' problem is; impound them.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 275 points 4 days ago (10 children)
[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 239 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And charge them fees. Just like they'd do to any individual. The city could make some real bank.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 105 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 54 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (6 children)

The city should just confiscate all of them. I mean, at this point they are abandoned on city property.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

And send Tesla the bill for recycling cost

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[–] reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] DizzoMyNizzo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This was my first thought. But the top comment talking about the batteries and what not going to hospitals and emergency centers made me feel different, hopeful even. Like, a feeling of organized chaotic good anarchy. Why burn the cars completely, when we can resources the useful parts, and then burn the left over scraps of the worthless useless billionaire? I mean... car.

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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (18 children)

God the environmental damage caused by making all these batteries, only to be used in a cyber truck and dumped in a car park.

Remember when Elon was pretending to be saving the environment, well now he isn't.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 30 points 3 days ago (36 children)

Batteries can be recycled, reused or repurposed. It’s nowhere near as damaging as drilling for/refining/shipping/burning oil and we decided we are perfectly okay with that.

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Elon was always about making money. The marketing department was all about saving things.

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[–] marker2002@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Here's a lot I pass by every day.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago (11 children)

few cans of gasoline and some matches could go a long way to help solving this problem

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

definitely would rather see people ~~stealing~~ recycling the batteries

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's what they're hoping for. If they all caught fire Tesla could put in an insurance claim and get their money back.

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[–] Johnnykorn@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (9 children)

But using the land for vehicle storage is against city code.

You can park your car in the parking lot, but not that car...

And dealers do not randomly park cars in parking lots without permission otherwise they would have been towed. The lot owner is getting paid.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A lot of municipalities have different rules and definitions for "parking" and "long-term parking." In a lot of cases long-term parking is strictly prohibited in places where parking is otherwise encouraged. You can't just leave your vehicle in one place.

You've got to move it, move it.

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[–] Jikiya@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Did he park them in a lot away from cameras, hoping there would be some "demonstrations" that would then allow him to claim insurance money? Does the policy cover "domestic terrorism"?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Well if they're just abandoning them, then the city should seize them and start selling them for parts. I know most of it is garbage but surely parts of it can go to something more useful.

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[–] Siresly@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

Monstertruck v. Cybertruck: Dawn of Justice

[–] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you know the Cybertruck was designed to mimic a Porsche? Specifically, this one.

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Can't the city claim eminent domain on them and then sell them at auction?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Sell them for pennies to the US military. They can use them as incendiary devices.

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[–] SausageWallet@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're just so damn ugly. One pulled up next to me at a light the other day and it looked like a cockroach skittered into my side vision.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 35 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Hmmm.

So EVs are pretty simple machines. I think we can all agree on that. Like I am not a mechanic and I can work on these things (well maybe not the tires).

But the problem isn't just that a single component in these things sucks, it's the whole design. That being said, the motors, controllers, axles, sensors, etc, can't all be entirely custom. I would be willing to bet there is a fair amount of useful shit we could "borrow" from unsupervised and unwanted cyber trucks to rebuild them into something much much better.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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