The San Francisco government is investigating two incidents in which two Tesla Model Y cars caught fire just two blocks early Saturday morning. Footage from one of the incidents shows an unidentified individual who appears to be burning paper and hitting it on one of the tires of the electric crossover. , causing an intense fire.
Model Y, whose arsonist filmed on Shipley Street, while the other vehicle on Bonifacio Street. The owner of the first Tesla, Van Vuong, lives in Seattle, Washington. He’s in San Francisco over the weekend visiting his kids at dental school when the fireplace thing happened, he told SFGate. He only noticed the chimney when he went for a walk that morning and didn’t discover anything yet, ashes.
“We moved beyond thinking, ‘Oh my God, look what happened here,'” Vuong said. “It didn’t take me long to realize, ‘Shoot, where’s my car?’
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Unable to reach the San Francisco Police Department through their emergency line, he was forced to travel by motorcycle to the station to find out what had happened to his vehicle. He expressed surprise and stated that he expected his car to be even if it was parked on the street overnight.
Meanwhile, the owner of the second Model Y that was left in the chimney last weekend, who was known on the news site as Chris, said his vehicle was parked in a community considered safe. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives on the domain and discovered the chimney when he couldn’t locate his electric vehicle while running errands with his wife and seven-month-old son.
“Last night we didn’t even hear sirens or explosions when this happened, so we were very surprised that we couldn’t locate our car,” the 33-year-old told the newspaper. “The first idea was that maybe he had parked somewhere else, and then the momentary idea that maybe someone had stolen it and then noticed the ashes. “
While no footage has yet been released of the chimney that burned Chris’s Tesla, police told him they were for surveillance video of nearby buildings and believed he may have been the victim of arson as well.
So far, there has been no explanation as to why one or two arsonists specifically targeted Tesla Model Y electric vehicles. However, those incidents are limited to another fire that devastated a Waymo autonomous test vehicle in the city two weeks ago. However, the Waymo fireplace started in a crowd of people.