Tesla trucks donated to Las Vegas police

[IcyPeas]

“.. thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.”

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-11-02T13:45:05.653Z

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-tesla-cybertruck-police-metro-f8294c00635009a78fa8a86741eec2ca

[Walleye]

1. Elon buying get out of jail free cards?

[vapor2]

15. from what I heard, Elon wasn't the donor

[IcyPeas]

19. Correct. Ben Horowitz and wife:

The Las Vegas fleet was a donation totaling about $2.7 million from Ben Horowitz, co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, and his wife, Felicia Horowitz.

See linked AP article in OP.

[lapfog_1]

2. can't sell them

inflate the value and take a tax write off

[vapor2]

16. I think this is the 10th recall of cyber trucks

[BOSSHOG]

3. Is that like selling used Koozies at a garage sale?

Have the headlights been fixed?

[RockRaven]

4. Other police departments have tested Teslas as patrol vehicles and concluded

that there are numerous reasons why they are not appropriate substitutes for the old standard models.

So one must ask: what caused LVPD to decide contrariwise, or did they not even bother to think this through?

[RubyRose]

9. They were donated? Police departments rarely

turn down free stuff.

[True Dough]

5. "Cybertrucks"

should be a crime in themselves.

[mwmisses4289]

10. Tourism is way, way down in sin city,

impacting city budgets. They are probably desperate to get vehicles that they had budgeted for last year, before it was elected.

[Turbineguy]

6. It is a better use of them than setting them on fire.

[Conjuay]

11. Well, they do that on their own, don't they?

[RandySF]

7. I have nothing to to back this up but

I think we have no idea how bad Tesla's situation really is.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

12. We can only hope.

[Bread and Circuses]

8. Can't sell the rust- buckets.

[Blue Owl]

13. At least nobody will be around to see them

[jmowreader]

14. I think I see what's going on here

I went to Tesla's website and configured a "Cyberbeast" model with all the options. It came to $120,235.

Multiply by the 10 he gave to the LVPD and it's $1,202,350.

Which he will deduct from his taxes as a charitable contribution.

[IcyPeas]

20. Did you include these options:

..... flashing lights and sirens...

The all-electric vehicles are equipped with shotguns, shields and ladders and additional battery capacity to better handle the demands of a police department, McMahill said.

And they'll be using public charging stations according to the AP article in the OP.

[Marie Marie]

17. Well, it will be easy to spot the cops.

[tinrobot]

18. Space X is also "buying" hundreds of those stupid trucks

That's one way to get rid of excess inventory and prop up his failing car company.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/want-to-know-what-tesla-is-doing-with-cybertrucks-that-dont-sell-spacex-has-em-all