Elon Musk’s Tesla lobbied UK to charge petrol drivers more

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0en9mn8mko

by IsWasMaybeAMefi

16 comments

  1. We shared this article at almost the exact moment.

    If anyone had any doubts on Musk’s motives…

  3. Not only that but EV vehicles are under intense scrutiny by the HOL and the cost of electricity is through the roof so Tesla is too expensive in the UK in comparison to Petrol

    If you look on HOL website at the debates you can see what’s happening with EV

  4. So an EV company is lobbying for something that benefits them. That seems fairly normal that they would want such a thing and is actually related to their core business

  5. Good to see him lining up with the Green Party on this, respect x

  6. Just like petrol/diesel car manufacturers lobbying against EV’s. Not exactly shocking news, obviously both sides will do what benefits them

  7. Is Farage going to reverse ferret and announce that EVs are the best thing ever.

  8. We need to move to a weight based taxation of vehicles soon. Cars are actually getting ridiculous in weight. We don’t need SUV EVs.

  9. musk needs to stay in his lane, brown nosing trump in exchange for backhanders from the US treasury

  10. Reminder this guy is rumoured to want to give farage 100m dollars.

  11. The price of electricity has been falling in China since 2021 …. they are the biggest investors in renewables in the world. Meanwhile in the UK …..

  12. Lobbyists lobbied for measures that would give them a market advantage. Shocking, shocking news.

  13. The government need to goto Tesla’s board and inform them, frankly that whilst Musk is part of the company the UK government won’t lift a finger to make their lives easier.

    And then give incentives to other EV manufacturers

  14. The story here isn’t that ev maker lobbies government its that the government is so open to lobbying

  15. My personal opinion of Elon Musk was already pretty low but this relegates him and his immediate executive circle to ‘cunt’ status. The european boss Joe Ward is responsible for penning the letter to the newly elected Labour government in the UK suggesting they introduce a tax on ICE cars to push people towards EV’s. They’re both just massive cunts, where’s Luigi when you need him.

  16. It’s crazy the way that Musk has managed to make an enemy of everyone who might have been an ally in the quest to move away from ICE vehicles.

    The bit in the middle of the Venn diagram of “supportive of the race riots and anti-immigrant violence in the summer” and “keen EV evangelist” is pretty small.

    The people I know who are even vaguely sympathetic towards Musk, Trump and Farage are exactly the same people spreading EV misinformation.

    Meanwhile, the people cheering the latest EV market share (did you see that 35% of cars sold in the UK last month were BEVs or PHEVs? That’s massive!) mostly seem to be the people who recognise that Musk’s promotion of the far-right is a danger.

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