{"id":184165,"date":"2026-02-19T06:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:11:14","slug":"teslas-european-future-in-doubt-but-they-didnt-get-banned-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184165\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla’s European future in doubt, but they didn’t get banned in California!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today\u2019s labor-intensive episode of Quick Charge<\/a>, Germany\u2019s largest union IG Metall is squaring off with Tesla in a major dispute involving a toxic work culture, criminal charges, defamation, and more \u2013\u00a0but at least they can still sell cars in California (for now).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, gang \u2013\u00a0Tesla has managed to avoid a sales ban in California by pivoting away from the use of the word \u201cAutopilot\u201d in its marketing (which explains that $99 FSD Supervised deal too<\/a>, btw). Plus: Polestar is rolling out FOUR new production cars in then next THREE years and if you just can\u2019t wait for that, there\u2019s a whole lot of great deals on a new EV you can drive home today.<\/p>\n

That featured image up there, by the way, comes courtesy of IG Metall.<\/p>\n

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