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One thousand submissions attract 95 per cent opposition to new Tesla factory in Australian city of Adelaide.
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One thousand submissions attract 95 per cent opposition to new Tesla factory in Australian city of Adelaide.
'I could not think of a worse developer to sell the land to. Tesla sales have been plummetting [sic] … this is likely to attract protests and negative attention that the neighbourhood does not need or want.'
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/27/australia-news-live-liberals-nationals-coalition-sussan-ley-david-littleproud-north-west-shelf-climate-change-gas-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-683509788f08990e36519186#block-683509788f08990e36519186
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Good on them. Musk can fuck all the way off. Plenty of other car companies whose CEOs don't seig heil.
I wish Kia in Australia were doing the cool EV stuff that they're doing in Northern Europe, instead of bringing an emotional support vehicle.
What do you mean? There's plenty of Hyundai EVs in australia. Spicy prices though
Kia, not Hyundai. Same chaebol, but it's still its own separate product and marketing teams.
Kia Norway was running some good antifascist pro-EV ad campaigns earlier in the year for their sensible mid-sized EVs. The contrast between that and Kia Australia's latest big marketing push which is for a huge gas guzzler with the dumb "pretend I'm a rugged manly man" TV spots just struck me.
@Zagorath @Geobloke as an aussie really really hope that's not based on good quality socio-psychological research. . .
Unfortunately I think it probably was. Australians are stupidly carbrained.
@Zagorath There is a risk. . .
Sorry, in my head the brands are interchangeable, still plenty of EVs with epithet marque. Plenty of people want Ute's and wouldn't surprise me if they made a hybrid or pure ev like the shark