A homeless arsonist tossed Molotov cocktails at a Tesla Cybertruck on an upscale Manhattan block Monday morning, setting it ablaze, cops and law-enforcement sources said.
Dwain Burr, 40, first dumped garbage on the hood of the electric vehicle parked on East 58th Street near Second Avenue in Sutton Place around 1:15 a.m., authorities said.
Then he placed what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail on its rear passenger tire — causing it to erupt in flames — and tossed another one at the unoccupied vehicle, police sources said.
A good Samaritan used a fire extinguisher to knock down the flames, according to sources.
No one was hurt during the alleged firebug’s early-morning mayhem, cops said.
Police searched the area and arrested Burr nearby, charging him with arson, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. He has no prior arrests.
It was not immediately clear why Burr targeted the Tesla.
But the arson marks the latest in a spate of crimes aimed at Tesla owners and dealerships across the country since polarizing company CEO Elon Musk began his role as head of the “Department of Government Efficiency” with the Trump administration.
Last month, Natasha Cohen, 46, was slapped with a hate crime and aggravated harassment charge after she left a brick scrawled with a swastika and the word “Nazi” on top of a parked Tesla in a Brooklyn Jewish enclave, cops said.
She was also accused of unloading a bag of trash on the vehicle, cops said.
On March 27, two hateful vandals also were caught on video brazenly carving a swastika and the word “Nazis” on the side of a Tesla Cybertruck parked on Monroe Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
