Guards walk near the Tesla booth at the 19th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Shanghai, April 19, 2021.
The public relations crisis triggered by Tesla’s female owner’s dispute at the Shanghai auto show to defend her rights has triggered a wave of anti-Tesla in the official media and the private sector for days. However, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, cooled down the incident at this time, calling on the public to calm down and stressing that companies like Tesla should not be driven out of the Chinese market.
Data released by Tesla China on Thursday showed that the Tesla electric car of the female owner surnamed Zhang in Anyang, Henan Province, was driving the last time the brake pedal was pressed at 6:14 p.m. on Feb. 21 this year, when the vehicle was traveling at 118.5 kilometers per hour, immediately after the forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking function activated and functioned to mitigate the magnitude of the collision; 1.8 seconds after the ABS functioned, the system recorded the collision . After the brake pedal was depressed, the speed continued to decrease to 48.5 km/h before the collision occurred. In addition, the owner stepped on the brakes more than forty times in 30 minutes.
A Tesla rights activist stands on a car at the Shanghai Auto Show on April 19, 2021, with “brake failure” printed on her white T-shirt. (Mengyu Dong/Twitter)
Mr. Li, the husband of Tesla’s owner Ms. Zhang, said that Tesla’s release of driving data was “a violation of personal privacy and consumer rights.” He couldn’t accept it.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia on Friday (23), Mr. Zhao, a driver from Hubei, said that with the data currently available, it is impossible to determine who is responsible for the Tesla traffic accident, pending the conclusion of an independent investigation.
“Is there any other reason behind this female driver, I dare not draw a conclusion now. Isn’t Everest producing Everest cars during this time? Could there be some factors in it? Tesla is not convinced to pay three for one.”
In addition to Evergrande, Huawei also announced last week the big plan of electric car car production to join the battle for the electric car market. In the past six months, Tesla has been holding steady in China’s electric car sales market first.
Mainland Pinky took the opportunity to attack US-owned Tesla
While the official media released reports criticizing Tesla cars, some netizens launched a boycott of Tesla. Netizens uploaded a video showing a parking lot attendant not allowing Tesla cars to drive in.
“Master, let me ask why my car can’t enter (the parking lot)? Answer: Have you seen the news in the past few days? Tesla brakes do not work, I have to be responsible for these cars in our car park, you know, do not, in case of an accident I can not afford ah.”
Mr. Wang, a private car owner in Yunnan, told the station that Tesla’s quality and sales methods have had an impact on the Chinese auto market, sparking dissatisfaction among stakeholders, who have taken advantage of the issue to attack Tesla. He said the matter was better described as an attack on Tesla as follows.
“It’s basically an attack on Tesla. First of all, it is a foreign brand, secondly, Tesla has a related Starlink program, and thirdly, although Tesla is trying to make good relations with the Chinese Communist Party in China, as an independent enterprise, it is not doing what it says, and it is a shock to the mainland auto industry.”
Many netizens left a “fuck off” message under Tesla’s latest statement, demanding that Tesla pull out of China, but many more posted messages in support of Tesla.
The netizen “Sun Xuyang” posted a question, the female owner of the car fed to the media material obviously have to take and even cut. A male family member of hers called the initial hotline complaint to a television station in Henan, and doubts have grown since then.
In accordance with the habit of eager traffic fines throughout Henan, the intersection where the incident occurred 80% of the cameras, the local traffic police in the investigation of the Tesla collision, have access to these surveillance footage, any media investigation? The police’s determination of the accident and the basis for the determination, as well as the negotiation process between the female owner and the police, have the media taken detailed evidence to understand? How did the female owner get into the Shanghai Auto Show media show, etc.?
Musk and Grace Tao, who heads Tesla China’s PR affairs, hosted the launch in 2020.
Car driver Wang Dawei told the station that the reason behind the high-profile coverage of the Tesla crash by the official media may be related to the rumored “non-cooperation” of Tesla with official requests.
“Tesla is constantly collecting data from our country and sending it to the United States. Now he is asked to put the server in our country, you collected data in our country, Tesla does not agree. The car’s driving recorder can drive everywhere with the car, it can also record, including the people in the car can also record, sent back to the United States domestic.”
Hu Xijin wrote an article for Tesla to relieve the siege
In response to the discriminatory treatment of Tesla by some people in mainland China, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, wrote that the community should stop “chasing” Tesla and that China is not trying to drive away these foreign companies that are willing to explore the market, but to guide them to comply with Chinese laws and respect consumers. He believes Tesla has learned its lesson this time.
On Feb. 8, Tesla was interviewed by officials from five departments, including China’s Internet Information Office, and asked to comply with Chinese regulations, and Tesla said it “sincerely accepts the guidance of government departments. A month later, the Chinese military issued a clear ban on Tesla owners parking their vehicles outside of military-owned areas.
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