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Tesla warned the U.S. government that it could face retaliatory tariffs due to Trump’s trade policies, and those concerns are becoming reality.

Canada has started targeting Tesla by excluding its products from EV charger rebate programs, with officials considering removing Tesla from a $4,000 EV purchase rebate as well.

Canadian politicians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, have proposed a 100% tariff on Tesla imports.

Tesla, reliant on Canadian and Mexican manufacturing, now faces backlash over CEO Elon Musk’s close ties to Trump and his trade war policies.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I heard that people are trying to return their new Teslas and Cybertrucks because they are apparently infested with bedbugs?! I guess they are in the factories and dealerships and have just been crawling into the cars at night?

It wouldn't surpise me if Elmo and the news are trying to keep a tight lid on it so people won't find out, and Conspiracy nuts are saying that Tesla is torching their own Cybertrucks in the dealership lots to contain the spread.

I didnt belive it at first but a friend of mine took a Lyft in a Tesla the other night and started to feel itchy but the back seat was dark and she was on her phone. While she was getting out, she noticed a bunch of tiny spots on her dress and they were bedbugs!

Naturally she freaked the fuck out and the driver apologized profusely begging her not to give him a bad review before speeding off.

She refused to go into her apartment afterwardband spent a few hours in the laundry room practically naked running her clothes in the dryer! Apparently high heat is the only Way to get rid of them?

She's still traumatized and insists she still feels them crawling on her even though an exterminator with a bedbug sniffing dog assured her the apartment was clear.

Has anyone else heard about this? It's so messed up, considering they're such expensive cars!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like a lie. Bedbugs live in your walls and they come out at night. An old trick for getting rid of bedbug, fleas, scabies, and other parasites it's to bag the affected material and leave it in your car for a few days. The high/low temps kills stuff pretty well.

If it was an Uber, the chances are that they picked up a person who had a bedbug or flea infestation, not that the car is permanently infested with the parasite. Also, you can bag and fume a car pretty cheaply. The idea that you would set fire to almost half a mil of inventory to get rid of a problem that can be solved with a single call to an exterminator seems ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I suspect the point is not wether it is true but that it could be a message along the lines of a headline like "Does Tesla have a bedbug problem?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Even if they don't torch them themselves because of bedbugs or whatever, they must be so happy for every car that burns down, because it's another car they can never fix that is gone, and they still get the money because i assume they are insured?