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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

‘They picked the wrong vehicle’: Musk defends Cybertruck after Trump hotel explosion

Elon Musk has leaped to the defense of his Tesla Cybertruck after one of the vehicles exploded outside of a Donald Trump-owned luxury hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on New Year’s Day, leaving one person dead and seven more injured.

The driver of the truck, which was rented in Colorado and driven south, was killed in the blast and has since been named by local media as U.S. Army veteran Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs.

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