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The fact that more people weren’t killed might have more to do with the nature of the materials that started the conflagration.
The Tesla Cybertruck that
exploded Wednesday in front of
Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas — which was left burned out but largely intact — has invited a wave of online praise for its tough steel exterior. Seven bystanders were injured, but the only fatality was inside the truck. Even the hotel’s glass front doors were spared.
“Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upward,” Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said in a
social media post on X late Wednesday, echoing earlier comments from a city sheriff.
But the surprising lack of damage caused by the blast is also a function of the apparently low-grade explosives used in the incident, according to experts who spoke to The Washington Post.
A blast caused by fireworks and fuel might have had a similar effect had it been in a different vehicle, said electric-vehicle experts Richard Meier of Meier Fire Investigations and Karl Brauer, executive analyst at
ISeeCars.com.
Videos of the event indicate that a lot of heat was generated by an initial explosion, followed by a subsequent fire in the bed of the truck that could have come from batteries overheating, noted Brauer.
“You didn’t really have an explosion as much as you had a bonfire,” he said. “I’m not at all convinced that the Cybertruck being so strong is the reason it blew upward.”
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