“Some customers no longer dare or do not want to use their vehicle.” With this phrase summarizes Patrick Klugman, lawyer for a future demand against Tesla in France, the feeling of his represented. A group of Tesla owners accuse the company that its public image has directly affected its vehicles and, of course, themselves.
This is what they argue.
Enjoy. That is, exactly, what the 10 Tesla owners who plan to denounce the company for the possible damage caused by the damage to the public image … of the company itself can not do with their vehicles. They ensure that Elon Musk’s political approach to the extreme right prevents them from circulating with tranquility, as explained to The Parisian.
Among the future plaintiffs are stories of all kinds. There is the one who says that one day he reached his car and found that he had been vandalized with the graffiti of a swastika. In other cases, they point to moral damage because they are owners who feel “betrayed”, in the words of lawyer Patrick Klugman, who is behind the defense of these consumers.
“A Responsible Eco -Ciudadean approach”. Thus, they ensure this dozen owners, who received the company when they were made with one of their vehicles. “It was a 100% electric brand (…) buyers were willing to pay more money for their car to participate in the ecological transition … This vehicle (Tesla) became a sample of commitment,” explains the lawyer.
They claim that with Elon Musk’s approach to the extreme right and the brand’s image degradation they cannot have a “peaceful possession” of the vehicle. A detail that is key to the demand that they want to present that, they point out in the middle, it cannot be defined as “collective” for the moment. Despite this, the lawyer encourages every owner who wants to add to the cause to accompany them.
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What are they based on? As we said, that “peaceful possession” is key. This is included in article 1625 of the Civil Code in France. It specifies:
“The guarantee that the seller owes to the buyer has two objects: the first is the peaceful possession of the thing sold; the second, the hidden defects of this thing or the prohibitive vices”
To this “peaceful possession” is to which the owners of the Tesla grab ensuring that given the attacks against the vehicles that extended a few months ago and the reputational loss of the company, they do not dare to take the car out to the street or, to do so, they cannot enjoy it with the same conditions that were sold.
What do they claim? The ultimate intention of these owners is simply that they return the purchase money or that the loan they maintain with the company is canceled if they are paying the car in installments.
Bad image. What is clear is that Elon Musk’s passage through the United States government has seriously damaged the public image of the company. From the protests before his company’s dealerships to direct attacks against his vehicles.
But, above all, the company has seen how its sales have sunk into what we have been for the year. The problem is especially serious in Europe. In its two main markets (Germany and France) their sales are for the floors. Right where the issues related to the extreme right and Nazism are more sensitive among public opinion.
To this is added the increase in the second -hand market of Tesla cars. Beyond that some influencers have publicly shown how they got rid of their cars, in France the volume of advertisements selling second -hand Tesla cars shot in the first months of 2025, to the point that they increased 30% compared to the ads published in the first 2024 first half.
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