A Tesla dealership in a suburb of Toulouse, France, was set ablaze in what a group says is a protest against billionaire Elon Musk.

The backlash against the electric vehicle company has turned violent at times, as its billionaire chief executive parlays his support for President Trump into consequential influence over the federal government.

Vandalism has targeted Tesla locations across the US, and European cities such as Barcelona, London, and Lisbon

The anger against Musk this past week also crossed borders. In Berlin on Tuesday, several fires broke out at a construction site for the expansion of a Tesla factory. Police in Germany said they were investigating it as an arson.

Elon Musk has lost $151 billion—nearly half of his fortune—as Tesla’s stock price collapses while he focuses his entire attention on his friend, president Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (D.

That surge reversed four years of poor performance for Tesla's shares as investors soured on the EV maker's weakening fundamentals and CEO Elon Musk's serial promises of fully self-driving cars and an inexpensive mass-market model that proved an ever-receding horizon.

Billionaire Elon Musk is at the center of cutting federal spending for Donald Trump, but the president urged him to use a scalpel rather than hatchet.

Billionaire Elon Musk's impressive net worth has witnessed a decline of $102 billion in 2025 following a sharp tumble in Tesla stock.