Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been accused by Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck, which was outfitted with a machine gun and despatched to the frontline of Russia’s battle in Ukraine.
On Thursday, Kadyrov claimed in a publish on Telegram that the car was “performing nicely in fight,” however later it shut down. This was adopted by one other publish on Friday whereby he said that two extra Tesla Cybertrucks have been despatched to the frontline.
Kadyrov, identified for his lively involvement in Russia’s navy operations in neighbouring Ukraine, claimed that the high-tech car needed to be towed from the battlefield because it was “remotely” switched off, CNN reported.
“What Elon Musk did was not good. He provides costly presents from the center after which remotely switches them off,” Kadyrov wrote in Russian.
Kadyrov, the top of the Chechen Republic, mentioned that the Cybertruck was despatched to the Northern Navy District. Whereas it “coped nicely” within the fight missions, later it was towed after getting turned off, as per a Benzinga report.
In one other publish on Friday, he knowledgeable that two extra Cybertrucks had been despatched to the “SVO (Ukraine battle) zone”. This time, Kadyrov additionally shared a video of the 2 Cybertrucks in a forested space, with every of them armed with mounted machine weapons. The video options males in navy uniforms within the truckbeds.
Kadyrov additional claimed that the “distant shutdown” didn’t affected the 2 different automobiles, that are “working usually, with none failures.”
“You could not ask for higher promoting for the Cybertruck,” he added.
This comes after the Chechen warlord shared a video of himself driving a Cybertruck in August this 12 months and mentioned that it was a “reward” from Elon Musk. In that video, he was seen driving the car in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. He even thanked Musk for the Cybertruck and asserted that it’s going to quickly be despatched to the entrance.
Nevertheless, the Tesla CEO denied sending the car to Kadyrov and replied to an X consumer, “Are you significantly so retarded that you just assume I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian basic? That is superb.”
Musk although didn’t make clear how Kadyrov gained entry to the car, which is reported restricted to gross sales inside the US thus far.
Each Tesla in addition to Musk are but to answer Ramzan Kadyrov’s newest claims.
The absolutely electrical Tesla Cybertruck was unveiled by Musk in Los Angeles in 2019, with its retail costs beginning at round $90,000.