Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk reacts throughout an in-conversation occasion with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
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Tesla filed a lawsuit towards the Swedish Transport Company on Monday after postal staff started to dam deliveries of license plates for the corporate’s vehicles.
Swedish postal staff blocked Tesla license plate deliveries as a present of solidarity with putting staff. Swedish unions have pressured Tesla with strikes and blockades over the corporate’s refusal to date to signal a collective bargaining settlement with staff in its service division, together with technicians and mechanics who restore and preserve clients’ vehicles.
Tesla claims the Swedish authorities has a “constitutional obligation to supply registration plates to car homeowners,” in keeping with the paperwork. The go well with was filed with the Norrköping district courtroom on Monday. It additionally sued the postal service, in keeping with Bloomberg.
The lawsuit submitting mentioned Tesla delivered 9,167 vehicles to Sweden in 2022 and that the Mannequin Y is the best-selling automobile within the nation to date in 2023. Tesla delivered 435,059 vehicles in Q3, in keeping with its car manufacturing and supply report on Oct. 2.
A Tesla spokesperson wasn’t instantly obtainable for remark.
“This seizure of license plates constitutes a discriminatory assault with none assist in regulation directed at Tesla. This measure can’t be described in every other approach than as a novel assault on an organization working in Sweden,” Tesla mentioned within the submitting, which CNBC translated to English.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned Thursday “That is insane,” in a submit on X, the location he owns previously generally known as Twitter, in reference to a narrative in regards to the blocked plates.
The lawsuit claims that Tesla ought to be capable of accumulate license plates straight “into Tesla’s possession” as an alternative of receiving them by mail, in keeping with the submitting.
Shares of Tesla had been down lower than 1% Monday.
Representatives for the Swedish authorities didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
–CNBC’s Lora Kolodny contributed to this report
