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Climate Protestors Storm Tesla's Gigafactory in Europe (www.wired.com)
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Tesla’s German factory, which produces electric cars and batteries, has for months been the target of protests by climate activists, who call the company’s green credentials a sham.

“Companies like Tesla are there to save the car industry, they're not there to save the climate,” Esther Kamm, spokesperson for Turn Off the Tap on Tesla (known by its German initialism TDHA) told WIRED last week.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 6 months ago

People hating on you, but you're right.

Tesla the company has gotten progressively undermined by Musk in his time leading it, to the point that the cars are now kind of crappy... but it's still a hell of a lot better than driving a gasoline car. "How dare you expand into our forest and make more electric cars" is a fairly non sensible stance for pro-climate people to take.

Also, the car industry hates Tesla and actively works to make life as difficult as possible for them, at least in the US (e.g. making Tesla dealerships de facto illegal in a lot of states). Saying Tesla is just an arm of the auto industry is very weird.

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