European carmakers are urging Brussels to ease regulations to help them avoid buying carbon credits from rivals at increasingly high prices.

Motorists have been told to boycott Tesla by the Polish sports minister in response to CEO Elon Musk's comments at a far-right German political rally that Germans should move beyond their "past guilt" over Nazi atrocities.

"For Germany, somebody outside of Germany endorsing right-wing political parties is a big thing," Lohscheller said. A survey of Tesla owners in the Netherlands showed around one-third were considering selling their car, with Musk one of the main reasons.

The British campaign group Led By Donkeys has claimed responsibility for the stunt that authorities say may have breached German laws on the use of symbols linked to illegal organizations.

Tesla announced its new implementation of self-driving in a video on Twitter. Apparently cars leaving the assembly line drive around 1.2 miles from the exit out to loading dock lanes. The route follows private roads around the facility,

Tesla and Germany’s BMW are suing the European Commission, joining a growing band of Chinese automakers to oppose the European Union on its punitive tariffs on electric vehicles.

Tech mogul said Germans should not be ‘guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents’

Poland's sports minister has said that the recent statements made by Elon Musk, the founder of US car manufacturer Tesla, should face strong condemnation and even a boycott of his company by all Poles due to his recent call on Germans to leave behind their Nazi past.

An image of Elon Musk making the gesture during his speech at U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration was projected onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg.

There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas,” says minister Sławomir Nitras.

The Tesla factory in Germany, one of the biggest foreign investments in German manufacturing in years and the company’s only European plant, has frequently been the site of protests.