Save the Planet—Just Not in a Tesla: Ideology Trumps Green Concerns
2nd May 2025
After progressives and greens for years pushed for a transition away from internal combustion engines to (allegedly) more ‘environmentally friendly’ EVs, suddenly ideological purity has become more important than air quality.
Tesla owners in Vienna have started finding threatening notes on their cars, Remixreports, telling them to sell their cars—or they will be vandalized.
“Our condolences! It’s not your fault. It will only be your fault if you don’t act now,” says one flyer found by Austrian Tesla owners, which goes on to tell them that their car is associated with “right-wing agitator” Elon Musk:
Maybe a few years ago you simply wanted to buy a cool car … Now you own a car that you may be ashamed of, whose value has gone to its knees and you have to be afraid every night that someone will scratch a big ‘f**k Tesla’ into your paintwork.
Other European Tesla owners have reported similar harassment. In Paris and Berlin, Teslas have been vandalized with paint and stickers, and Amsterdam has seen protestors confronting drivers for owning “capitalist machines.”