Tesla Dealership protests continue across US as Car Sales plummet

Hundreds of people demonstrated at Tesla dealerships over the weekend, as the backlash against Elon Musk and the Trump administration continued despite a warning from the US attorney general that the government would be "coming after" protesters.

- Adam Gabbatt

The protests, in US cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and New York, have come as the sales of Teslas plummet in Europe.

In Brooklyn, New York, about 50 people gathered outside a Tesla showroom on Saturday afternoon to make their displeasure clear, in the fourth such protest in the last four weeks.

Bullets have been fired through a dealership window and Molotov cocktails thrown at a charging station elsewhere. But this was a rather more genteel protest, as evidenced by the signs on show. "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide," read one, channelling a poem by James Russell Lowell.

One banner said: "Musk is too brusque," another: "Very uncool."

One sign, however, offered a more prosaic example of the anger on display, riffing on a Dead Kennedys song: "Nazi trucks fuck off."

As protesters chanted: "Hands off our data," and "Arrest Elon Musk," people passing in cars and trucks blasted their horns - including, at one point, a man driving a Tesla.