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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:08.5 | Today, as protests against Elon Musk spread, could the pressure force him to step away from Trump? |
0:29.8 | I think it was about around 2012 when the Tesla Roadster came into Switzerland and a friend of mine he bought one. |
0:32.1 | So we made a test drive and it was like from the beginning I knew that's the future. |
0:38.7 | Mike Svady is an entrepreneur based between Zurich and London. |
0:43.2 | 2016, I finally bought a Tesla Model S. |
0:48.2 | It was amazing. It felt so good to drive in this car. |
0:51.5 | People on the streets really liked it. |
0:57.5 | Got so many thumbs up. So it felt like you're driving in this future dream car. Now it just feels awful. I don't really like to get in my |
1:06.1 | car anymore. And in three weeks, we will drive to France. |
1:11.4 | I don't know what will happen. |
1:13.4 | Maybe we'll burn one night. |
1:17.0 | And at the same time, for me, it doesn't feel good anymore. |
1:22.2 | Mike is feeling some buyer's remorse. |
1:25.5 | You kind of like sit in a white wing car without having any power to influence this. |
1:35.1 | So I thought, okay, every kilometer I'm driving, I will donate 10 cents to US anti-racism and LGBTQ foundations to get some money to people |
1:50.4 | which actually Alan don't like. So that's my way of revenge. And he's not alone. |
2:01.3 | As Elon Musk slashes and burns |
2:04.1 | U.S. government departments, his electric car giant Tesla, |
2:08.4 | and lots of the well-to-do progressive people who own its cars are feeling the heat. |
2:14.6 | Tesla cars have been vandalized, plastered with anti-Musk stickers with eggs. |
2:20.7 | Showrooms have been burned down, and this weekend there were hundreds of protests outside |
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