“Obviously a Cybertruck, the Trump hotel — there’s lots of questions that we have to answer,” he added.

He added that the FBI had identified the person driving the vehicle, which had been rented in Colorado, but was not yet ready to publicly identify the driver.

At least one person was killed and seven wounded when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a hotel belonging to US President-elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas, police have said. Source: Getty / Wade Vanderverot / AFP

Tesla chief Elon Musk — — said the blast was unrelated to the Cybertruck itself.

Police said they are still working to establish the cause of the explosion.

He added that both the Cybertruck and the vehicle used in the New Orleans attack had been rented through car-sharing service Turo.