On the opening day of the Shanghai Auto Show, there was a dramatic scene in which a woman climbed on top of a Tesla and shouted “brake failure”, and was later detained by police. The Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece media and Hu Xijin also published articles on April 20 blasting Tesla. Some netizens said that the water behind the incident should be very deep.
On April 19, a woman climbed on top of a Tesla and shouted “brake failure” in a dramatic scene on the opening day of the Shanghai Auto Show (video screenshot)
According to a comprehensive mainland media report, on the opening day of the 2021 Shanghai International Auto Show on April 19, a woman wearing a T-shirt with the word “brake failure” and the Tesla logo stood on the roof of a Tesla show car and tore down the umbrella of the show while shouting “Tesla brake failure! “, the woman was then pulled down by the staff to take away, the scene was once chaotic, can also be heard shouting “Tesla hit people.”
A total of 2 women wearing the same outfit were allegedly present at the booth that day, and another woman was suspected to be pregnant, but was also quickly taken away by security. The Tesla booth was then surrounded by a large cordon and more than 10 security guards were on hand to maintain order, and the booth was only reopened at around 11:45pm.
In the afternoon, Tesla’s official microblogging site responded to the incident by saying that the owner had obtained documents to enter the exhibition hall in an unconventional way, and was live-streaming around the booth and shouting on the roof of the car. The staff at the site had repeatedly persuaded him with words to no avail, so they asked security and public security personnel to take him away.
Tesla said that the owner had previously been involved in a collision due to speeding violations, after which he insisted on the return of the car on the grounds of product quality, “We have been actively negotiating with the owner for the past two months and expressed our willingness to assist in completing testing, repairs or insurance claims, while proposing a variety of solutions, but as the owner did not accept any form of third-party testing and strongly rejected We proposed all options, so related matters can only continue to communicate.”
Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla China, said in an exclusive interview with Land Media Finance Automotive reporter, “I think she (the female owner) is also very professional, there should be (someone) behind it. This may be a problem that many companies will face in their development, today it is Tesla, tomorrow it will be other”. Tao Lin finally said “I think we have no way to compromise.”
On April 20, according to the Shanghai police, the incident involved two women, one of whom was sentenced to five days of administrative detention for disturbing public order, while the other was given an administrative warning.
The incident did not end with the police announcement, but on April 20, Chang’an Jian, a new media outlet under the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, Xinhua News Agency and Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, published a series of articles blasting Tesla.
For the series of practices of the official media, some netizens analyze that the water behind is very deep, and this is a signal for the authorities to make a move against Tesla, which is self-directed and self-acting, just to make way for domestic cars.
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