- Joanne Wilson, like many Tesla owners, has grown frustrated with Musk’s politics.
- The angel investor traded in her Tesla for a Volvo EV, getting only $2,000 in return.
- A Seattle man bought a white Model S and destroyed it in protest against Musk.
A growing grassroots movement in the United States is on a mission to take down anything even remotely linked to Tesla and its controversial boss, Elon Musk. And no, it’s not just your run-of-the-mill activists getting in on the action. According to one former angel investor, she’s ready to part ways with her Tesla, thanks to Elon Musk’s recent antics—and she’s even suggested letting people destroy her EV with sledgehammers, making it a full-blown Instagram spectacle.
Joanne Wilson, who bought a Model S with her venture capitalist husband Fred Wilson back in 2014, isn’t exactly the type you’d expect to join the anti-Tesla crusade. The couple picked up their first Tesla shortly after their parking garage was outfitted with EV chargers. Later, they bought a second Tesla, splitting their time between California and New York, as Business Insider reports.
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However, the couple have joined many other Tesla owners and want to get rid of their electric cars. Writing on her blog, Wilson mused whether it was Musk’s “complete disregard for human beings,” in disrupting the federal government “like a classic tech dude,” or if the “awful new Cybertruck that looks like something out of Mad Max,” has upset them the most.
The Wilsons recently traded in their Californian-based Tesla for a new Volvo EV. Hilariously, the Swedish brand offered just $2,000 for the Tesla. They now need to get rid of their second Tesla and suggested they could park it outside one of their cannabis stores in New York and invite people to smash it with sledgehammers. While this seems to have been a tongue-in-cheek idea, one Tesla Model S owner in Seattle did recently destroy his EV with a hammer and an axe.
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Last week, a man in Seattle’s Sodo neighborhood parked his white Model S, rounded up some friends, and began smashing the car’s body panels and shattering the windows. Speaking with a local reporter, the owner, identified only as Greg, admitted that he bought the Tesla just so he could destroy it in protest of Musk and Tesla’s alleged support for “fascists.” Now that’s a statement.