Tesla Cybertruck gets vandalized by climate activists

The Cybertruck weighs almost three tons, so its enormous weight means it consumes an absurdly high amount of energy. Senseless waste that we as a society cannot afford. Add to that the sharp-edged construction: a safety disaster. The truck perfectly illustrates where the anti-social policies of the last few decades have led us: a few rich people drive well-armored into the disaster – and take everyone with them.

-Hendrik Fauer, one of the activists

At least it is electric. Throw the paint on a Dodge Ram 3500 that dwarfs the Cyber truck AND burns oil.

This is like protesting at a small free range chicken farm when there's an industrial chicken farm right next door.
- There's validity in going after something that specifically symbolizes Elon rather than a random gas guzzler. Though electric cars are (debatably) less harmful than regular ones, Elon has done a lot of work in setting back even better solutions by promoting them over things like trains.
  
  Also he sucks for a million other reasons but he's definitely a sort of wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to environmentalism.
- Y'all act like you can only throw paint at one car.
- This is an odd argument to make for a vegan. Because both of those farms need dismantling. Just like electric AND gas cars need to be phased out. While I can agree all these things do inequal damage, it's STILL damage. Electric cars are a step but absolutely NOT a solution to climate change. Removing gas from the situation is well enough, but we need mass transit and rebuilt infrastructures to support it.
  
  It's wise to protest the placebo so people start seeking the cure. Especially when the placebo comes in a oversized impractical truck for.
That’s so stupid. Yes it’s ugly, impractical, and dumb. But if it’s anything like the R1T or Hummer EV, it gets 50-70 mpg equivalent. That’s great.

that orange paint might actually improve its weather resistance

Have you ever seen one in person? I have, and at the wrong angle, that shiny stainless steel reflects the sun just about as much as a mirror does, blinding other drivers and pedestrians at certain angles.

So if anything, a paint job of any sort, vandalism or not, only serves to make them ever so slightly safer...
- I've seen a single one. It was in the oncoming lane and honestly I and didn't even process it as a vehicle at first. My first thought was that it was the bumper of a semi.
- Quite a few in my area. Just the other day I saw one with a matte wrap and gold accents on the sharp edges.
Also they are easier to spot.

SUVs are a fucking climate disaster, electric or no. Good on these activists.

Most SUVs are more practical than this thing...

(It's a low bar, I know.)

How do they plan to sell it in Europe when pedestrian survival change is a necessary part of crash tests?

That car is slicing everyone in half that it hits and even if it isn't that hood being steel will smash everyone's head it.

It is never going to be sold in the EU because of how horribly unsafe it is for everyone around it.
- It doesn't have crumble zones, it has pointy edges, it is wider than the allowed 2,55m. The list probably goes on for way longer. Even the back mirror might not be suitable.
If i see one in Poland im gonna very lightly scratch it with a key so that the scratch rusts for ever.
- That’s overkill, LITERALLY just throw saltwater on it. You would only need to scratch a surface that has some kind of coating. These are just bare stainless, and not even very corrosion resistant stainless at that.
Probably the same way it was able to be released in the USA, they paid the off the crash testers. USA NTSB is a joke. Whatever happened to their power to force cars to have safety.
The goddamned things are built so much like shit that the fucking back wheels will break off from a front end crash...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ll2_BDZpI4

Like, how the fuck does that even happen like that?

Worst. Vehicle. Ever.
- Did you finish watching that video?
  
  It has independent rear wheel steering.
  That's the rear wheels turning in, because they're meant to pivot.
- If you watched the whole video, he later dismisses it as the back wheels can turn as well, so they probably just folded in without them necessarily breaking

The Cybertruck is a joke of a car and why it is compared here to even worse cars makes no god damn sense. No one who actually needs a truck for work or even privately will buy this piece of overpriced and dangerous garbage. Instead it will be bought by adult children with too much money. I am not even hating on these people, rather i hate on the people that greenlight this disaster. This is what you get when a brain dead ceo can simply bully the company into doing his pet projects. Pathetic.

I was excited for it when musk announced it at $40k, now I can do without.

I support the climate activists, bigly. I think they could have chosen a better target.

Every single time

Look honestly this is pretty stupid.

The cyber truck is a super expensive, conservative coded, pavement princess car. The people buying it are probably doing so instead of getting an F350 with one of those illegal mods that lets you pipe out black smoke. It's overall a net positive for the environment.

I feel like this is less about the Cybertruck and more about Elon. I get he's hateable, but people just end up feeling lied to when you use BS logic to pretend that the (supposedly) best selling EV pickup in the US somehow needs to be targeted by climate activists. Just deface his private jet or some shit.

No. Both vehicles are absolute trash for the environment. Just because it's an EV does not mean it is suddenly environmentally friendly. The stupid stainless steel alone uses up idiotic amounts of energy to produce and in the end it is still a several ton heavy vehicle instead of some form of micro car.

And no, no one really uses this or an ICE truck in a way that would require them to have one. Even people who haul shit in the back would usually do with a more sensible roofed vehicle, but that would be less "cool".

All of those big cars can and should be a target. If we go with individual motor traffic, then we should use vehicles that are as compact and basic as possible.
- Elon is also supporting right wing authoritarians who want to dismantle climate protections and promote coal, oil, and gas.
- And no, no one really uses this or an ICE truck in a way that would require them to have one. Even people who haul shit in the back would usually do with a more sensible roofed vehicle, but that would be less "cool".
  
  Wait, no one has a legitimate use case for a truck? Like transporting building materials and tools? Large furniture and appliances? People who live along an unpaved mountain road, or work somewhere similarly remote, like forestry? Towing fifth-wheel trailers? When it snows here, I'm stuck at home until someone with a truck comes by to plow... They have large dedicated snowplows for the highways and stuff, but for out-of-the-way residential streets, the city contracts private pickup truck owners with their own plows. I'm glad they're around.
  
  Like don't get me wrong-- The majority of truck owners pretty much never do these things, and it's an extremely wasteful vanity display for them. That's bad. Most people who buy Cybertrucks will not be doing truck stuff with them. That's bad too.
  
  But I think some people have a good reason to own a truck.
- no one really used this or an ICE truck in a way that would require them to have one.
  
  Thanks for adding this. It saved me a lot of time trying to argue with you. You're clearly the type of person who is gonna believe what you want to believe.
Yep and the message it sends to 99% of the population that isn't deep in Elon derangement syndrome is that green movements are just more leftwing circlejerking idiots that are completely unserious about the causes they profess to fight for.

Yes I would love america to have better trains and better public transport but short of a magic wand that's not going to happen this decade, if we want to improve things then we need to live in the world we're in. Cybertruck is great for converting rich idiots who'd otherwise be ICE obsessives, they'll all be getting solar roofs too so they can brag and preaching to their budies about being secure in disasters and price spikes. Though let's be honest these protesters will likely have the opposite effect to their aims and increase Elons popularity amoung the right.

It's sad to me these people who profess to care so much about climate change or whatever always and only do aggressive, destructive and easy acts - they never put the work in to come up with creative, constructive and genuinely positive acts which help people or projects working to improve things.

Why bother? The climate is gonna make them rust all by itself eventually, probably sooner than later going by the recent reports...

The point is attention and a false sense of accomplishment.

Careful, they are learning that electric cars are more damaging to the environment then normal ones!

Over the life of an EV, there are significantly less emissions, even when including vehicle construction emissions. This is just flat out wrong.
- Is it the sunrise kids? I would not be surprised if this was sunrise.
Three ton stainless steel monstrosities are a danger to society and not an efficient use of green knowledge.

It doesnt mean a nissan leaf is bad.
- They didn’t say that.
  
  That’s the problem when one’s rhetorical toolbox is thrown soup.
That is not quite true. Electric cars over their lifetime are definitely a lot lot better than ICE cars. HOWEVER, they are definitely not the solution for transportation. Public transit is.

Getting new electric vehicles makes sense for vehicles that simply cannot be replaced by other alternatives (examples of such vehicles being pickups for businesses, those little vans for the post office, buses, etc.).

Of course, the most eco friendly thing is generally what u already have. Switching to an electric car from ur five year old ICE car is more environmentally damaging.

These dumbasses aren’t winning over any converts by throwing paint on everything.

I'm not so sure. It gets them attention and the opportunity to share their message. And not everyone is so cynical as to immediately dismiss them as dumbasses.
Vandalizing a cybertruck is pretty cool in my book. It's the ugliest abomination of automobile you can purchase right now and they're entirely right, it's too heavy sucks to much power for it's use case, and is incredibly unsafe for anyone it manages to run into.
- There are plenty of ICE vehicles that are heavy and ugly that deserve just as much scorn. Cybertruck is ugly as sin, but this is like throwing blood on someone wearing fake fur.
Actually, they are
Idk this one I can get behind
- I was not impressed by the Stonehenge vandalism, because it's not an example of punching up, imo. However, this punches at the very people who are furthering climate change, billionaires, so I'm all for it.
This seems like a decent target to throw paint at, for a change.