Frustrated Tesla drivers are selling cars or displaying anti-Musk bumper stickers as sales of the EV car brand slumped 72% in February compared with last year
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Australian Tesla owners troubled by the increasingly extreme rightwing politics of the company’s founder, Elon Musk, are offloading their electric vehicles or using bumper stickers to distance themselves from the Trump-aligned billionaire.
Fresh vehicle sales data for February – which covered the weeks after Musk’s apparent fascist salute at a Trump inauguration rally – showed a steep decline in Tesla purchases. Sales were down about 72% compared to the same month in 2024.
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