Days out from CES 2025 and hours after a car was driven into a crowd in New Orleans killing ten people a Tesla Cybertruck car has exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, where CES stay, one person is dead Musk claims “nothing wrong with Cybertruck”. The incident on New Year’s Day, has shocked bystanders with several injured, police are looking for secondary devices after discovering what been described as “mortars” in the vehicle. Located close to the Fashion Mall in Las Vegas the FBI has been called in according to local Nevada law enforcement, Australians were caught up in the incident.
t’s still not clear what caused the fire. Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the explosion has nothing to do with the Cybertruck itself, saying the company was able to remotely access data from this specific Cybertruck to prove it wasn’t caused by the vehicle. “We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself,” he posted on X.
We’ve reached out to Las Vegas police to confirm. We hadn’t previously heard the Cybertruck was rented; Musk also now claims that “law enforcement currently believes [the explosion] was most likely intentional.” “Right now, we just don’t have a lot of answers,” FBI special agent Jeremy Schwartz, said.
Authorities didn’t have any details about the dead person inside the Cybertruck; we don’t even yet .