Tesla service centre in London pelted with eggs

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A Tesla service centre in London appears to have been pelted by eggs.

Both sides of the large red sign bearing the electric vehicle maker’s T logo outside the service centre at 3234 Wonderland Rd., south of Southdale Road, were covered in dried egg on Tuesday.

It’s unclear when the business was targeted – the service centre hasn’t opened yet – but the apparent incident comes amid a wave of protests and acts of vandalism targeting Tesla dealerships, service centres and charging stations across North America and Europe.

Most recently, more than 50 demonstrators lined the street outside the Wonderland Road service centre over the weekend. Many of the protesters carried signs denouncing Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close ally of United States President Donald Trump.

The protest and egging in London come just one month after a Tesla Model S parked outside the automaker’s showroom in Masonville mall was destroyed in a fire that investigators later ruled suspicious. No arrests have been made in the March 17 blaze that caused $140,000 damage, police said.

London police haven’t received any reports about the egging, a police spokespersons said Monday.

And it isn’t just Tesla’s infrastructure that’s being targeted. Tesla owners have reported having their vehicles keyed, pelted with eggs and even feces. In some cases, the vehicles’ cameras have captured the vandals in the act.

The Tesla attacks and protests are related to Musk’s role leading the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative to reduce government spending by slashing the federal workforce and cutting funding and grants, and his embrace of far-right political parties such as the AfD in Germany and the National Rally in France.

The Trump-appointed head of the FBI called the attacks against Tesla “domestic terrorism” and vowed to crackdown on the perpetrators.

“The FBI has been investigating the increase in violent activity toward Tesla, and over the last few days, we have taken additional steps to crack down and coordinate our response. This is domestic terrorism. Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice,” FBI director Kash Patel wrote last month on X, the Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

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