Attacks against Tesla cars : at Saint-Chamond,
des bornes calcinées
Le Progrès, 30 March 2025
In the car park of the Leclerc centre in Saint-Chamond, situated on the ZAC of the Varizelle, claims are made by floor-marking: « Anti-Tesla campaign, Borne to Burn ». The dozen Superchargers of the factory of Elon Musk were vandalised during the night of Wednesday 26 March to Thursday 27 March at around 4am.
Placed somewhere away from the large surface, under a sun roof, they were subjected to willful damage by fire. Two Superchargers were totally destroyed and the ten others turned out to be unusable having been struck by the flames. This nocturnal destruction – « manifestly targeted action » – is object of a police investigation to establish the technical and scientific findings and relies on video surveillance in the attempt to identify the author(s).
A first in Europe which Saint-Chamond would happily have done without
Right next to some Superchargers of an American company are some transformers aimed at supplying electricity and six other electric charging points of the Ionity mark that had not been vandalised. « This reprehensible act cannot be justified by the crystalisation of the behaviour of the Tesla CEO. These arsons are considered crimes and their authors will have to answer for these misdeeds », adds a police source.
In 2022, the installation of a Tesla borne was valued at 35 000 euros. The arson carried out against the Saint-Chamond 
infrastructure is the first arson of Tesla Superchargers in Europe. On the contrary there have been similar acts in the United States notably against the Tesla Supercharger Location in Littleton in Massachusetts.
In France, a car dealership of the Tesla has been affected by an arson attack in Toulouse, but so far the terminals or Superchargers had been saved. The polarization of society has been exported from across the Atlantic with unsuspected violence/ This act of « retaliation » towards the richest man in the world is no less a crime of obstruction and damage to the property of others.
via: sansnom translated by Act for freedom now!