Tesla is being targeted by protests organized at its stores around the globe. The demonstrations planned for this Saturday appear to be a grassroots movement without a clear goal or leadership.
The protestors are calling it the “Tesla Takeover”.
The movement appears to have started on Bluesky, a social media platform that spun off of Twitter before Elon Musk bought it and turned it into X.
Several bigger accounts on Bluesky, including Anonymous, the infamous hacker group, have promoted the effort.
As stated in the post, the main goal appears to be protesting Elon Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and only owns 13% of the company, but he is seen as having complete control over the automaker.
Many people believe that it is warranted to target Tesla to protest Musk because he used his wealth from the company to acquire Twitter and finance Donald Trump’s campaign, which both resulted in what many see as a takeover of the US government by the wannabe technocrat.
Ralph Ballart, a long-time Tesla owner and Electrek reader, made us aware of the planned protests. He planned to attend the rally at his local Tesla store in California, and he shared his personal reason for wanting to boycott Tesla:
I have a 2015 Model S and the only reason I want Tesla sales to decline is to get Musk out as CEO and get someone like JB Straubel to replace him.
Straubel is a Tesla co-founder and long-time CTO who left in 2019 to found Redwood Materials. More recently, he joined Tesla’s board of directors.
Other than Anonymous, there doesn’t seem to be any organization behind the protests. People are promoting them locally to get activists at Tesla stores worldwide on Saturday at 11AM.
They are using the hashtag #TeslaTakeover, which is ironic because it used to be the name of a Tesla event organized by John Stringer, one of Musk’s biggest shills.
As we recently reported, Tesla stores around the world have been targets of vandals lately to protest against Musk.
However, in this case, it seems that the protesters are planning to stay civil and exercise their freedom of speech – encouraging people to boycott Tesla to send a message to Musk.
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