Prothetters Plechet London Tesla Showroom on World Anti-Musc Day | Tesla

The howling car horns on the A40 to three lanes in western London are nothing new. However, on Saturday, they did not target other drivers for a change; Instead, it was Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who was the target of their anger as part of the “Tesla” movement, which spread from the United States.

“It’s too crushing to do nothing,” said Louise Cobbett-Witten, who has family in the United States. “There is real comfort by meeting like that, everyone has to do something. We don’t have a great strategy in addition to standing on the side of the street, holding panels and screaming.”

The demonstration was part of a world day of demonstrations planned under the aegis of the Tesla Takedown movement. The organizers say that the rallies will take place in front of more than 200 Tesla locations worldwide, including nearly 50 in California. Musk did not comment on the demonstrations.

Cobbett-Witten has a family in Washington DC and plans to return to the United States. The 39 -year -old NHS worker who lives in southern London, said: “Checks and sales have just failed. Although people try not to say these words, they are fascists, they are white supremacists, they are xenophobes, they are misogynist and they come for everyone. And what starts in America comes here. ”

During the last fifteen, Tesla responded to demonstrations outside her exhibition hall and her charge point in Park Royal parking a solitary security guard at his door, who said that the demonstrators had been friendly and peaceful. Dozens presented themselves on Saturday, their greatest participation rate since they started weeks ago.

While Tesla sales fell in Europe, they increased in the United Kingdom by more than a fifth in February, according to the registration figures for new Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

Homosexual rights activist Nigel Warner Mbe was trying to distribute stickers to the Tesla drivers entering or leaving the site in Park Royal. “This is the only thing you can do to make a difference,” said the 77 -year -old retirement accountant in London. “We are quite helpless here, like Europe, the only thing we can do is try to assign the courses and sales of Tesla’s actions. This is something that has already been done with Tesla’s sales in many places. If he cannot sell his cars, it’s over. “

Documentary filmmaker Jim Green, 56, who lived in New York and Los Angeles before returning to the United Kingdom 18 months ago, had worked with Musk on a film a decade ago.

Green said: “He was a different person, and he was very charismatic. He spoke when I was hanging out with him about Gigafactory where the batteries were under construction, and he had a very convincing argument to make on the importance of batteries, an argument that he did not transform extraordinarily.

He said Musk had attacked typical Tesla buyers, whom he described as rich liberals who care about the environment: “Musk has done everything possible to insult this exact group of human beings. I lived in Los Angeles at the time when all those who were rich and liberals exchanged their Toyota Prius for their Tesla in 2014-2015. “

Retirement Anne Kajava, 59, who is from Minnesota but lives in Cambridgeshire, said that she was concerned about the change in United States policies on Europe and Ukraine.

She said: “I am really concerned about a Second World War. I am concerned about a civil war in the United States. You might say that these are extreme views, but Trump talks about war. You have JD Vance in Greenland; this is not impossible.”

Holding a banner attached to a Donald Trump toilet brush, she said: “I did not hesitate to say that I am American. In fact, I work with an acting coach, to simulate a British accent so that I can turn it on and turn it off when I want it. I don’t want to be identified as American.”