In the county of Marin, there are problems in Teslaville

In the parking lots of Mill Valley, California, mysterious index cards have surfaced on the windshields of Tesla Model XS and model 3.

“Stop Elon,” he urges in the Sarcelle script. “Throw your Tesla.”

A few years ago, the purchase of a Tesla in Mill Valley meant that you had money, but that you were not too seeing. This meant that you were a progressive environmentalist who had style.

It meant you belonged.

Ten miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, nestled in the lush green hills of Marin County, Mill Valley is an idyllic place to live – for those who are rich and liberal.

And for years, Teslas has been “the Ferrari for the crowd bearing Patagonia,” said Nathan Ballard, a political consultant who lives in Mill Valley and has a Black Tesla S model.

But elegant electric cars have completely become something else for residents of Mill Valley since the presidential election.

Activists elsewhere set fire to Tesla load terminals, scribbled tied crosses in tesla vehicles and pulverized graffiti on dealers. The battle that rages in Mill Valley is something quieter: an internal war in the mind and heart of the owners of Tesla, their environmental ethics colliding with their rage towards Elon Musk, the general manager of Tesla.