“Sell your shares”
Protests against Musk in front of Tesla car dealerships
23.03.2025 – 01:11 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The mood against Elon Musk does not stop at Tesla car dealerships. There are protests in 28 states.
In the United States, there are increasingly protests against shops by the Tesla electric car manufacturer. They are directed against his boss Elon Musk and his work for the Trump government. On Saturday, 90 car dealerships finished by demonstrators. They kept signs with sayings like “get rid of your shares” and “sell your Tesla”.
The protest was launched by the Hollywood actor and filmmaker Alex Winter and Professor Joan Donovan, who teaches in Boston. There is now a website on which the demonstrations are announced. The protests already take place in 28 states.
Musk is mainly criticized because of the cuts of the Efficiency Projekt Dog he led. US President Donald Trump had commissioned Musk to search for savings on the US authorities. But the mass layoffs that go hand in hand are raising more and more citizens against Musk. “There is no area of life that does not touch the dog,” Donovan told CNN to the US broadcaster. “This is reflected in the variety of people who come to these protests. In front of a Tesla shop in Rockville, Maryland, 400 people demonstrated on Saturday, as many as in the week before.
The criticism apparently does not go by Elon Musk without a trace. On Thursday, he asked employees not to sell their shares. Since December, the carmaker’s shares have given up by 48 percent. Musk has about 13 percent.
More and more customers are also selling their Tesla vehicles. They now make 1.4 percent of the used car market – a year ago it was 0.4 percent, as CNN reports.
Not all protests against Tesla and Musk are peaceful. Most recently, Tesla vehicles have increasingly become the target of vandalism in the USA. US President Trump openly showed himself to pursue violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism. He now said in the White House that the perpetrators could get up to 20 years in prison, “and they will get it. (…) There will be no mitigating circumstances and there will be no pardon”.
