Before endorsing the far right, he faced escalating disputes over conditions at the carmaker’s Berlin factory.

The U.S. electric car company’s sales are sliding across Europe, amid what many see as interference in local affairs by Tesla ...

Tesla announced its new implementation of self-driving in a video on Twitter. Apparently cars leaving the assembly line drive ...

Afterwards, activists projected an image of the salute and the word “Heil” onto the outside of Tesla plant near Berlin. Last month total electric car sales in Germany rebounded by over 53 ...

Tesla, like other electric carmakers, has seen sales fall in Germany over the past year following the withdrawal of government subsidies, and amid a smaller appetite for electric vehicles in Europe.

In Germany, workers are entitled to full pay for up to six weeks of absence through illness a year. Elon Musk was taken aback last fall by reports of high absenteeism at Tesla’s factory near Berlin.

Musk also drew criticism in Germany over his gesture at an inauguration event for Trump that critics likened to a Nazi salute, an accusation that the Tesla boss has rejected. Afterwards, activists ...

Musk’s intervention in Germany’s upcoming federal election ... to the co-chair of a party that’s opposed Tesla’s construction of a plant outside Berlin and taken a dim view on renewable ...

after Germany — and dropped 12% in the UK. Tesla shares traded down as much as 3.1% as of 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in New York. AfD Support Musk, 53, hosted a live discussion with AfD leader Alice Weidel ...