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Does anyone why that was the case and if it’s true vs a regular ICE car?
likely because it was in the truck bed.
The walls would have directed any explosion upwards rather than outwards. Further, Fuel-air bombs tend not to be very destructive unless there's the correct mixture of fuel-to-air; in a confined space. (like, for example, Trump Tower Lobby.)
Either this person is a complete and total moron, or he didn't mean to cause a lot of damage, (or it was a total accident. Who knows. maybe he was planning a rave out in the desert and a spark triggered the gas.) I say that because there doesn't seem to be anything that would have stopped them from ramming the doors.
it should be noted, that Tesla/Musk probably wants to spin this as terrorism for a lot of reasons. Including being that if it wasn't an intentional act; then it's definitely going to paint CT drivers as complete and utter morons who store fuel and fireworks in the back of a truck. (and yes, static electricity can set off a fuel-air mixture, including static electricity built up in plastic bed liners. Or a sparking motor to open the bed...)
Given that it was the most readily identifiable Tesla vehicle parked outside of a Trump hotel, it doesn't take much to see some symbolism all over it. That they used a bunch of gasoline rather than something like fertilizer/anfo, and just parking it outside rather than in the lobby, would make it out to be more about messaging than destruction.
Sure. If it was intentional.
I'd suspect it was, but by who is another matter. It wouldn't be shocking if some maga folks where trying to create a false flag event to blame 'the enemy within' and use it to spin up some measures to go after others.