Nothing to see here

[webfootdawg]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1...ion-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas

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[RivianRiverRat]

one way to clear out overfilled parking lots

 

[COdogman]

Hopefully they give them to one of our enemies as a trojan horse…

 

[Dark-Fx]

Well, that accounts for about 100 of them, what are they going to do with the other 100,000?

 

[Redline]

What a complete joke. We live in the worst timeline.

 

[Zoidz]

When you have the keys to the house, or in this case the passwords to the systems.....

"After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed."

 

[Dark-Fx]

When you have the keys to the house, or in this case the passwords to the systems.....

"After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed."

The government has actual standards for this program too, so I'm very curious if we'll see these changed.

https://fam.state.gov/fam/12fam/12fam0380.html

 

[Zoidz]

The government has actual standards for this program too, so I'm very curious if we'll see these changed.

https://fam.state.gov/fam/12fam/12fam0380.html

Thanks for posting that. Based on the disposal requirements, IMO EVs should not be eligible at this time. There's little doubt that disposing of an EV as required by this document will be more costly than disposing of an ICE. It's "easy" to crush, burn or explode an ICE at any military base - drive a tank over it, use it for target practice, or take it to any scrap yard that can torch it or crush it under witness. Can't do that with an EV until the battery is removed, requiring new procedures and probably transportation.

 

[WhidbeyIsland]

Not surprised at all, it was only a matter of time.

 

[NY_Rob]

Hopefully they give them to one of our enemies as a trojan horse…

And, best of all.. no need to sabotage them- they self destruct all by themselves as SOP.

 

[Killer95Stang]

At one point the City of LA purchased (leased) over 300 BMW i3's for the Police Department because it felt good. I'm sure kickbacks were also involved. A majority sat with almost zero miles, because the detectives they were intended for would rather drive a 15 year old out of production Crown Victoria. Although we love to hate Telsa here, a cybertruck properly outfitted would make a better Police vehicle than an i3.

 

[NY_Rob]

^ the i3 is a great little "commuter" car, but a police vehicle? ...lol ?

Obviously kickbacks were involved in that purchase decision.

 

[mkg3]

Electrek has this story too. What's noteworthy is that this article shows the funding line where all these armored vehicles are to be purchased.

It was approved in December by the Biden administration and the current has nothing to do with these. This is the kind of transparency we can now expect.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/12/us-s...et-line-for-armored-teslas-worth-400-million/

 

[Zoidz]

Electrek has this story too. What's noteworthy is that this article shows the funding line where all these armored vehicles are to be purchased.

It was approved in December by the Biden administration and the current has nothing to do with these. This is the kind of transparency we can now expect.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/12/us-s...et-line-for-armored-teslas-worth-400-million/

There was another article I read (can't find it now) that said the line item was shown as last edited on Dec 14. That's well within the time that Musk was nosing around in Washington. All possibilties considered (including that perhaps it did not originally say Tesla and a disgruntled staffer added "Tesla" out of spite?), it's impossible to know the true story, and we will never know the true story.

 

[Dark-Fx]

It was approved in December by the Biden administration and the current has nothing to do with these. This is the kind of transparency we can now expect.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/12/us-s...et-line-for-armored-teslas-worth-400-million/

Yes, it's been expected since 1988.

https://www.state.gov/procurement-forecast

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