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“It felt such as you had been driving on this future dream automobile,” says Mike Schwede, an entrepreneur based mostly between Zurich and London. For him, driving a Tesla used to really feel particular.
“Folks on the streets actually favored it,” Schwede says. “I acquired so many thumbs-up.”
When Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, turned a supporter of Donald Trump and spearheaded his so-called “division of presidency effectivity”, Schwede’s ideas about his automobile modified.
“You type of sit in a right-wing automobile, with out having any energy to affect this. So I assumed, OK, each kilometre I’m driving, I’ll donate 10 cents to US anti-racism and LGBTQ foundations to get some cash to folks … Elon doesn’t like, in order that’s my manner of revenge.”
On this episode, the Guardian’s international know-how editor, Dan Milmo, talks to Michael Safi in regards to the current protests in opposition to Tesla, and we hear from present and former Tesla fanatics, Jim, Mika and Kam, about what they consider Elon Musk’s rise in US politics.
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