Tesla, protests also explode in the USA (and vandalism): « Do not buy a Nazi-car »

« The horn rings if you hate tesla ». « Don't buy a Nazi-Car ». « Do you really want to buy a svasti-car? ». And again. «Musk boasts he can stop Starlink with a button if he goes to him. Would you buy a car if who makes you pay it (salty) can block you at any time if you are unpleasant to them? ». « Boycott Tesla, » write the most polite. The more the days pass and the more – from the US to the United Kingdom, from Australia to France – the multiply the Campaigns against Elon Musk and in particular its symbol product. But it's not just about verbal protests or on social networks.

Fire dealers

Protest actions and vandalism acts spread and mainly target electric cars dealers. The first takes place in Oregon, with Molotov artisanal launched against the windows of a Tesla showroom in the capital Salem – a quiet town of about 180 thousand inhabitants, such as Modena or Reggio Emilia. There are just under 4 on the night of January 20, the day of the settlement of Donald Trump, who would then have appointed Musk to the head of the « Doge », the Department of Government Efficiency (the Department of Government efficiency) already announced in November and which is being known for collective layoffs in the public sector, from the weather service to education. As reported by the « Salem Reporter », that night A man attacks the dealer by breaking glass and machines and launching incendiary bombs that cause about half a million damage.

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It is the first of a long series. Since then they have followed each other Tens of attacks on dealers, cars and charging stations, tire thefts, flashes painted on Tesla offices. Also Who owns a Tesla does not sleep peacefully: some cars have been smeared with eggs, excrements or pieces of cheese. In Seattle, a fire was stuck that damaged four cybertrucks. On March 13, a gunshots were exploded against a Tesla dealer in Tigard, always in Oregon. Events against Musk have been organized on the streets, often identified with Hitler. In Australia, the showcase of a dealer with the word « Do you really really want to drive a swasticar » was vandalized?

Musk, yet another own goal on X

In France, in Toulouse, at the beginning of March a dozen Tesla were set on fire. A showroom in the Netherlands was smeared with slogans such as « Fuck Off Fascist » (because Musk does not forget the greeting with his hand tense) and others who called him a Nazi. And still yesterday Musk came back the dose when on X he wrote a post that fulfilled Stalin, Hitler and Mao with mass killings. According to the post, the managers were public employees. The company is also putting its own. In the only European « Gigafactory », south of Berlin, the powerful IG Metall union denounces incorrect practices that question employees' disease certificates asking to reveal the diagnosis, which is covered by privacy.

Tesla, sales down and collapsed title at Wall Street

If after Trump's victory in the presidential elections at the end of November, in mid -December the Tesla title had touched the highest prices ever on the Nasdaq (at 461 dollars in action), Since the beginning of the year, the company has lost more than 40 percent. In February, sales in Germany collapsed by 76%, 45%in France, 42 percent in Sweden. The new Model Y, which has just debuted in Europe, does not seem to be enough to revive Tesla's fate. In China, deliveries dropped by 49 percent. As a richest man in the world with over 400 billion dollars of heritage, Musk – even if the announced duties of 200% on wine will be introduced – could afford hundreds of very expensive champagne coffers. But he wouldn't have many reasons to celebrate.