Protests at Tesla stores are gaining momentum across the US as people are fighting back against Elon Musk’s government takeover, and the hate is spreading to owners.
Last week, we reported on a new effort to organize protests at Tesla stores worldwide, but primarily in North America.
There were significant turnouts to disrupt Tesla operations by picketing in front of dozens of stores.
But the movement is ongoing, and there were protests against this weekend and more planned for the coming weeks:
Many of the protests from this weekend appeared to be bigger than the last ones.
There was a big turnout at a Tesla store in Seattle that reportedly ended up closing the location:
There were reportedly as many as 200 people who gathered to protest Elon Musk at the Fort Lauderdale store in Florida:
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SlightlyLeftPad
The amount of long term damage that is actively being inflicted to the scientific research community alone because of Elon’s crusade all but guarantees that I will never buy another Tesla. The one I have is a great car but I don’t want to be targeted by extremist groups on any side and I don’t want to financially support the economic and social collapse of my country. Elon and thus Tesla is rightfully being labeled as an enabler. If their board agrees, they’ll do the right thing and choose a new CEO.
I’m still a strong supporter of EVs but I’m frustrated that EV owners still pay at least as much for electricity and registration as ICE cars pay for gas (in California). Hybrids still make more financial sense in California.
BillSaysThis
We have one story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 about a startup promising to identify factory workers giving, by management definition, less than 100% and yet CEOs can run multiple companies, take board seats, and oversee the American government. Of course the last one of those is so far adding huge value to all the others…
henglihong-js
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drawkward
Anyone who buys a Tesla from this point forward is marking themselves.
jonnycomputer
Objectively, Musk is hurting Tesla's brand with a broad swath of consumers.
j_timberlake
I'm sure the stockholders will take a strong stance and replace him as CEO… when he eventually loses favor with the White House. Until then, the brand nose-dives.
The dark humor part is, it's the car owners who are going to suffer most. Stockholders and executives probably already sold enough stock to land on a soft pile of money.
croes
Musk has SpaceX, he doesn’t care about Tesla
gunian
lol the beauty of this entire thing is CIA/NSA whoever is running the op gets plausible deniability love to see it :) stuff like this you read as a kid but then see irl and that hits different
its literally the same playbook from the 70s/80s didn't even change a thing
im fucked and will soon be dead regardless of the side so kind of hilarious to see the narratives and philosophy gymnastics on each side
malshe
In today's news Tesla sales dropped 45% in Europe in January while overall electric cars sales were up 37%. TSLA was down 8% just today.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas…
prododev
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dehrmann
I'm surprised how many people overlooked the "pedo guy" incident.