⁣Tesla owners in China are demanding a refund.


⁣Tesla owners in China protest surprise price cuts, demand refunds

Hundreds of Tesla owners gathered at the automaker’s showrooms and distribution centers in China over the weekend, demanding rebates and credit after sudden price cuts they said meant they had overpaid for electric cars they bought earlier.

On Saturday, about 200 recent buyers of the Tesla Model Y and Model 3 gathered at a Tesla delivery center in Shanghai to protest against the US carmaker’s decision to slash prices for the second time in three months on Friday.

Many said they had believed that prices Tesla charged for its cars late last year would not be cut as abruptly or as deeply as the automaker just announced in a move to spur sales and support production at its Shanghai plant. The scheduled expiration of a government subsidy at the end of 2022 also drove many to finalize their purchases.

Videos posted on social media showed crowds at Tesla stores and delivery centers in other Chinese cities from Chengdu to Shenzhen, suggesting wider consumer backlash.

After Friday’s surprise discounts, Tesla’s EV prices in China are now between 13% and 24% below their September levels.

Analysts have said the move by Elon Musk’s Tesla was likely to boost its sales, which tumbled in December, and force other EV makers to cut prices too at a time of faltering demand in the world’s largest market for battery-powered cars.

While established automakers often discount to manage inventory and keep factories running when demand weakens, Tesla operates without dealerships and transparent pricing has been part of its brand image.

“It may be a normal business practice but this is not how a responsible enterprise should behave,” said one Tesla owner protesting at the company’s delivery center in Shanghai’s Minhang suburb on Saturday who gave his surname as Zhang.

He and the other Tesla owners, who said they had taken delivery in the final months of 2022, said they were frustrated with the abruptness of Friday’s price cut and Tesla’s lack of an explanation to recent buyers.

Zhang said police facilitated a meeting between Tesla staff and the assembled owners at which the owners handed over a list of demands, including an apology and compensation or other credits. He added the Tesla staff had agreed to respond by Tuesday.

About a dozen police officers could be seen at the Shanghai protest and most of the videos of the other demonstrations also showed a large police presence at the Tesla sites.

Protests are not a rare occurrence in China, which has over the years seen people come out in large numbers over issues such as financial or property scams, but authorities have been on higher alert after widespread protests in Chinese cities and top universities at the end of November against COVID-19 restrictions.

‘Return the money’
Other videos appearing to be of Tesla owners protesting were also posted to Chinese social media platforms on Saturday.

One video, which Reuters verified was filmed at a Tesla store in the southwestern city of Chengdu, showed a crowd chanting, “Return the money, refund our cars.”

Another, which appeared to be filmed in Beijing, showed police cars arriving to disperse crowds outside a Tesla store.

Reuters was unable to verify the content of either video.

Tesla does not plan to compensate buyers who took delivery before the most recent price cut, a spokesman for Tesla China told Reuters on Saturday.

He did not respond when asked to comment on the protests.

China accounted for about a third of Tesla’s global sales in 2021 and its Shanghai factory, which employs about 20,000 workers, is its single most productive and profitable plant.

Analysts have been positive about the potential for Tesla’s price cuts to drive sales growth at a time when it is a year from announcing its next new vehicle, the Cybertruck.

“Nowhere else in the world is Tesla faced with the kind of competitors that they have here [in China],” said Bill Russo, head of consultancy Automobility Ltd in Shanghai.

“They are in a much bigger EV market with companies that can price more aggressively than they can, until now.”

In 2021, Tesla faced a public relations storm after an unhappy customer climbed on a car at the Shanghai auto show to protest against the company’s handling of her complaints about her car’s brakes.

Tesla responded by apologizing to Chinese consumers for not addressing the complaints in a timely way.

⁣Putin to soldiers: In Ukraine, our only option is to fight and move forward.

⁣Bobby Kennedy Jr. has a lawsuit against Big Pharma for paying Big Tech and the govt to hide the dangers of the jab from the American people.


⁣RFK Junior tells Tucker about an “active conspiracy to censor Covid information“

⁣Fox News discussing the Pandemic of the Vaccinated.

⁣Globalists up to the same tricks as Jan 6 invented insurrection, this time in Brazil

SHADES OF J6

As anti Communist Patriots protest in Brasilia, reportedly in the Brazilian congressional complex, State Police wave protestors in, & can even be seen giving a thumbs up to the protestors as they move up the stairs further into the building.

#BrazilianProtests

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⁣Mel Gibson on how he navigates Hollywood without participating in the bad stuff.

Warning: Beware Of Scammers Pretending To Be Infowars And Alex Jones In Your Email Inbox
Trump/patriot-friendly free speech social media & video sites... - https://xephula.com/blogs/4062....13/Trump-patriot-fri

⁣Bill Gates has been giving UKAid tens of millions to genetically modify livestock

⁣“Experts” claim Climate Change is responsible for the rise in cancer. Not the shots. Not the poisons in our skies from their geo-engineering. The weather.

⁣Top 10 countries with the highest defence budgets from 1941 to 2021..

How sad to think of the amount of money dedicated to killing other human beings…😔

⁣Andrew Bridgen MP calling on the Government to suspend Covid jabs:

"This is the time to draw a line in the sand... Common sense tells you there's something not right about all of this."

⁣UK PM Rishi Sunak Blames Vladimir Putin for 2022 - hints he will blame him for anything else that goes wrong in Great Britain for 2023 too.

⁣One of the youngest Banderites. The song this baby is singing goes:

Our father is Bandera, Ukraine is our mother,
We will go to to war for Ukraine
Oh, in the forest under the green oak,
A seriously wounded insurgent is lying there

Oh, he lies suffering severe torment,
Without the left leg, without the right arm
His mother came to him,
Weeps and sobs, feels sorry for him

Oh, my son, my son, enough fighting
You are left without the right arm, without the leg
Our mothers, do not cry for us,
Do not cry bitter tears for us.

We did not live in harmony with the Muscovites,
We entered the battle against Peter himself
The Muscovites fled, losing their bast shoes,
And our bullets chased them

Oh, the mother buried her son
She wrote words on his grave
The words were written on his grave:
Glory to Ukraine. Glory to all the heroes

⁣Incredible! The fake Ukrainian nationalist "church", the head of which just happens to hang out with the U.S. officials, is celebrating the Birthday of Stepan Bandera!

Once again: they are celebrating the Nazi who massacred and brutally tortured thousands of people: men, women, children, for being the wrong ethnicity.

The text of what they are singing is here (https://t.me/thecoppermountain/1467).

⁣ Jair Bolsonaro is traveling by plane to the USA and will stay there for at least 1 month at the request of members of his legal team

The current president will not participate in the inauguration event of president-elect Lula and will be staying at the home of José Aldo, a former UFC fighter.

This event takes place as a prior warning of concern on the part of his lawyers, since Bolsonaro will be without parliamentary immunity for the first time in 30 years and has several processes and complaints open in various instances.

There is also the inquiry that is only accessible to the office of Alexandre de Moraes (STF), where Bolsonaro's name is also included.

This is a common strategy for delaying any possible request for fast-track arrest.

⁣Excellent summary of 2022 by JP! 😂
Watch the full clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgBcWu5WGg

⁣Andrew Tate on his alleged ‘arrest’ for sex trafficking.

THE PUERTO RICO STATUS ACT IS A DEMOCRATS' SPONSORED BILL THAT INTENDS TO BRING PUERTO RICO INTO FULL STATEHOOD, WITH 2 NEW SENATORS AND 5 CONGRESSPEOPLE, PROBABLY ALL DEMOCRATS. THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA SOUNDS LIKE A VOICE OF REASON TO ME BUT LOCAL POLITICIANS IN PUERTO RICO (MARXISTS AND DEMOCRATS) SOON JUMPED TO ACCUSE HIM OF BEING A "RACIST".

⁣Cyberattacks’ Risks Impossible To Be Covered, The Industry Warns

The world’s biggest #insurance companies has warned that #cyberattacks will become “uninsurable” as the disruption from hacks continues to grow.

Recent attacks that have disrupted hospitals, shut down pipelines and targeted government departments have all fed concern about this expanding risk among industry executives.

First off, there must be a perception that this is not just data - it is about our civilisation, Mr. Mario Greco, chief executive at insurer #Zurich told in an interview with Financial Times. These people can severely disrupt our lives, he added.

Spiralling cyber losses in recent years have prompted emergency measures by the sector’s underwriters to limit their exposure.

The global insurers said there was a limit to how much the private sector can absorb, in terms of underwriting all the losses coming from cyber attacks.

They called upon governments to “set up private-public schemes to handle systemic cyber risks that can not be quantified.

The firms warned that a model of diffused risk in case of massive, sustained cyberattacks might not suffice.

⁣KLAUS SCHWAB: “Our education initiative… we have Cisco… and practically all the big names… we will revolutionize education…we will retrain the teachers… we will put a new curriculum in place”

… so that we can indoctrinate the children with our ideology at an early age…