A Tesla Cybertruck vehicle, Elon Musk’s brand pickup, exploded this Wednesday morning in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person and lightly injuring seven others, the company announced. local police. “There is a deceased person inside the Cybertruck,” said Kevin McMahill, Las Vegas police sheriff, during a press conference broadcast by ABC. The police officer also mentions seven people suffering from “minor injuries”.
The two electric vehicles rented with Turo
Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, declared on his social network X that his teams were investigating this explosion, claiming to have “never seen anything like this”.
President Joe Biden said authorities were investigating whether there was a “connection” between the attack in New Orleans and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck.
The vehicles involved in both incidents were rented through the ride-sharing app Turo.
The Las Vegas sheriff said it was a “coincidence…that we need to continue to look into.” A spokesperson for the app, used by millions of people in the United States, said it was working with law enforcement.
“We do not believe that the two clients had a criminal past that would have identified them as a security threat,” the group’s spokesperson told AFP.
The attack comes less than three weeks before the transfer of power between Democratic President Joe Biden and his elected Republican successor Donald Trump, in an electric political climate.
