• axh@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The whole internet seems happy about the “people” burning Teslas in protest. I am pretty sure they were all insured and given the terrible sales figures… please guess who is benefitting the most of that burning?

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      Insurance fraud is really hard to hide, that’s the first thing insurance companies investigate, particularly if the claimant is a car dealership. This has been a popular criminal activity for decades, my uncle used to pull this scam with his motorcycle club, they all got caught.

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      Insurance isn’t going to pay out it’s $700 billion market cap. If this keeps up, Tesla the company won’t exist any longer.

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      Having to make a ton of insurance claims is not a good thing.

      Eventually you become uninsurable, which is a lot harder to overcome than a sales slump.

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      This comment has no logic… yes, maybe Tesla itself is not at a loss due to vandalism here but insurance companies would drop either Tesla (the company) as a client or deny insurance to people buying Swasticars which would make the sales slump into a sales halt

      This is really bad for Tesla either way if you are willing to look 1 mm beyond

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        You are right, but there probably is a “safe” number of Teslas that can burn, before insurance companies drop Tesla (or increase insurance prices to make it unprofitable).

        Insurance frauds, if not caught, tend to be profitable.

        Edit: I just want to add that I do not have any personal experience with insurance frauds… It’s just my little conspiracy theory… I won’t respond anymore, must go and make my first tinfoil cap.