A fire broke out with a Tesla dealership in Rome early on Monday, destroying 17 cars and damaging the building, firefighters in Business Insider told firefighters.
Emergency services were called on the Torre Angela site around 4:30 a.m., they said.
No injury was reported and the investigators did not specify the cause of the fire, adding that the investigators were considering multiple causes, including possible maliciousness.
A fire broke out with a Rome Tesla dealership on Monday morning, destroying 17 vehicles. Rome firefighters
Local reports indicate that Teslas has been vandalized in other parts of Rome in recent weeks, with a little degraded with black aerosol paint.
Tesla Showroom Rome did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The incident comes as aggressive efforts to reduce CEO Elon Musk in Doge have sparked a reaction against its electric vehicle manufacturer.
In the past three months, Tesla’s facilities have faced criminal fire attacks, vandalism, And boycott calls in the United States and Europe. The Tesla action dropped 5% on Monday, extending the drop this year to 34% this year. JPMorgan analysts recently has reduced their price objective at only $ 135.
Lakshmi Varanasi from Business Insider reported that she had seen nearly 400 demonstrators armed with flags and panels outside a Tesla exhibition hall in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday. They asked Musk to leave the White House.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he shocked by violenceThe appellant “crazy and deeply bad” in a post X earlier this month: “Tesla just makes electric cars and did nothing to deserve these bad attacks.”
In another article, Musk wrote: “Has there already been such a level of violence coordinated against a peaceful company? I understand Do not want to buy a productBut it is an extreme criminal fire and destruction! “”
Steven Callander, professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, previously told Bi that the counterpoup for its political actions was “inevitable”, affirming that “the real cost for Tesla will be lost sales and the damage of the brand” – not vandalism.
New Tesla registrations in the United States Tumbled 11% In January – even if the sales of Ford electric vehicles climbed 54% – and the image was worse in Europe as the sales plunged over 40% In February, according to industry reports. Tesla’s shares are down 45% compared to their December summit.
Dan Ives, analyst at Wedbush Securities, made a similar observation in a note last week, saying: “Musk leading Doge essentially took her own life, as in the process, Tesla has unfortunately become a political symbol on a global scale.”
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