Upwards of 80 Tesla cars damaged at Ontario dealership
Posted Mar 20, 2025 9:38 am.
Last Updated Mar 20, 2025 1:48 pm.
Police in Hamilton, Ont. said upwards of 80 Tesla vehicles were damaged at a dealership on Wednesday.
Authorities were called to the Tesla dealership in the city 45 kilometres west of Toronto reports of damage to some of the vehicles in the store’s inventory.
Officers responded and found that more than 80 Tesla vehicles parked outdoors had been damaged, suffering deep scratches, punctured tires, and other forms of vandalism, police said.
Officers are reviewing CCTV footage and asking the public for assistance with the investigation.
In recent weeks, incidents of vandalism against Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations have surged across the United States and internationally. This appears to be primarily motivated by political opposition to Elon Musk’s recent governmental role with the Trump administration.
About two dozen protesters gathered outside a Tesla dealership in Surrey, B.C., last weekend, the day after a similar protest in Vancouver, holding signs with messages including “elbows up,” “Elon be-gone,” and “democracy dies in apathy.”
Prosecutors in Colorado charged a woman last month in connection with attacks on Tesla dealerships, including Molotov cocktails thrown at vehicles and the words “Nazi cars” spray-painted on a building.
Tesla stock doubled in value in the weeks after Trump’s election but has since shed all those gains.
With files from The Associated Press
