Tesla may not get to sell energy in UK because Brits hate Elon

[CatCage]

Tesla may not get to sell energy in UK because Brits hate Elon Musk so much

 

Thousands of Britons have voiced opposition to a request by Tesla to supply electricity to British homes.

And what’s the sole reason for this opposition? It’s because of Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

 

Last month, Tesla applied for a license to supply electricity to British homes. The application was sent to Ofgem, UK’s government energy regulator.

 

In addition to Tesla’s business selling EVs, and its CEO’s business making promises about autonomy and robots that never materialize, Tesla is also in the business of selling energy products.

 

The energy products include solar panels, after Tesla’s controversial acquisition of SolarCity, a company run by Musk’s cousin Lyndon Rive, in 2016. They also include Powerwalls, Tesla’s home battery backup system which can store energy from a home’s solar panels or from the grid, and then use it or sell it back to the grid later during peak hours when electricity is most expensive.

 

More:

https://electrek.co/2025/08/20/brits-oppose-teslas-plan-to-sell-energy-in-the-uk-because-elon-musk-sucks-so-bad/

[Will B Good]

From the article.......

 

Musk has received pushback in the UK and elsewhere for his support for extreme rightwing and racist political figures, both in the US where he gave hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to a treasonous felon who tried to overthrow the US government, and in the UK where he has given both rhetorical and monetary support for a violent racist fraudster who has been imprisoned multiple times.

 

His unambiguous Nazi salutes, agreeing with a defense of Hitler’s actions in the Holocaust, support for German neo-Nazis, and many other white supremacist statements didn’t help, either.

 

Beyond his association with racist politics, he has also directly spread misinformation about climate change himself, despite this being a contradiction of Tesla’s mission. Musk has even said that his own recent actions are “not good for America or the world.”

 

You have to wonder.....why the fuss?????

[BritManToo]

I'd prefer Trump as pm of the UK than Starmer.

[Hummin]

I was never going to buy a Chinese car, but nr 1 on my list now is a model from BYD! 

 

Sad but true