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Tesla showrooms across the country look set to face a wave of protest stunts following the launch of a new campaign against the electric vehicle firm’s owner, Elon Musk.
Musk, who also owns Twitter/X, is a leading figure in Donald Trump’s US administration and is overseeing severe cuts to federal jobs, grants and public services under the co-ordination of his so-called ‘Department for Government Efficiency’ (DOGE).
However, sales of Teslas are reportedly on the decline across Europe in what some experts suggest is an apparent protest over Musk and his politics – as exemplified by frequent outbursts on his platform promoting figures such as the imprisoned British far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) and other far-right groups like Britain First and Patriotic Alternative.
Musk was accused of whipping up racist anger in the run up to the anti-migrant riots in England last summer, and has repeatedly called for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to be deposed.
Now a new activist group, the People Vs Elon campaign, hopes to start a trend, after one of their members walked into Tesla’s Tottenham (London) dealership, with a cardboard cutout of Musk performing the Nazi salute, which he performed twice during Trump’s inauguration.
Staff demanded she remove the offensive cut-out – and threatened to sue if the video went online.
The footage has since gone viral with over two million views on TikTok alone. And now the woman behind it wants others to follow in her footsteps.
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Teslas have always been crappy cars but it took his involvement in politics for people to realize. Truly amazing.
Spoke with a doctor today. He told me he gave up his Tesla. And will never buy another. He has two EV’s now. Not Tesla’s.
I’m telling you he’s gonna invent the ‘‘reverse class action lawsuit’’ and sue the entire population of the EU for not buying his cars enough. He’s already suing ad buyers for not buying Twitter ads.
Although the drop in UK sales is less than a half or even a third of what it is in other European countries. So we have work to do to catch up.
It’s true that our drop is a third of Germany and France’s, but it’s also true that they were buying far more Tesla cars to begin with.
In January 2024, Germany bought 3150 Tesla cars, France bought 3118, and the UK bought 1581. They were buying double our amount.
Germany and France’s numbers have now massively dropped, and are now in line with UK numbers.
Our percentage drop is lower only because we were already iffy on Tesla, whereas Germany and France weren’t.
France and UK have higher purchase powers than UK, thanks to Brexit, so I wouldn’t put that down to people being more sceptical.
People in the UK are more likely to drive new cars than France, and only just behind Germany.
We need the entire country to unite and start pointing and laughing at Tesla drivers.
Give them a hard Paddington stare, perhaps tut and roll your eyes. That’ll teach them. I saw one the other day, gave it both and I think the driver has learned their lesson.
Perhaps get some flyers to pop under a wiper if you see one parked: “this really isn’t on”.
“Please consider parking around the back in future to avoid the embarrassment for both of us”.
Oo yeah, we could have fun stickers “please could Teslas be parked on the road as they make us look bad”.
Yes! And like the notices on lorries and buses to not undertake when it’s turning left, you could have a Tesla sticker for “take care when overtaking as this vehicle may veer violently to the right”.
“My other car is a Panzer”.
“High five, fellow Tesla driver!”
I’ve probably blocked the Tesla subs here on Mbin/Lemmy, too lazy to check, but as soon as it became apparent Musk was killing Twitter for the Saudis with particular zeal and determination, I left Twitter, told anyone I could that Elon Musk was Nazi garbage, and blocked the Tesla subs. This wasn’t a difficult determination.
Turning point for me on Musk was his childish reaction to the whole rescuing those kids from that cave thing.
To be honest, I never paid much attention to Musk other than I was glad someone was making a solid push into the EV market.
But after his tweets to the professionals saying they couldn’t use his pressure vessels, it was clear Musk was stunted in his emotional/mental development.
Sigh
