Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk reacts during an in-discussion occasion with British Key Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
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Tesla filed a lawsuit versus the Swedish Transport Company on Monday following postal workers started to block deliveries of license plates for the firm’s cars.
Swedish postal personnel blocked Tesla license plate deliveries as a present of solidarity with hanging staff. Swedish unions have pressured Tesla with strikes and blockades above the firm’s refusal so far to signal a collective bargaining agreement with staff in its provider division, like technicians and mechanics who repair service and maintain customers’ cars.
Tesla promises the Swedish govt has a “constitutional obligation to present registration plates to motor vehicle house owners,” in accordance to the paperwork. The fit was submitted with the Norrköping district court on Monday. It also sued the postal support, in accordance to Bloomberg.
The lawsuit submitting stated Tesla sent 9,167 autos to Sweden in 2022 and that the Design Y is the greatest-selling automobile in the state so significantly in 2023. Tesla sent 435,059 vehicles in Q3, in accordance to its motor vehicle creation and supply report on Oct. 2.
A Tesla spokesperson was not instantly obtainable for comment.
“This seizure of license plates constitutes a discriminatory attack without any help in regulation directed at Tesla. This evaluate can’t be explained in any other way than as a distinctive attack on a company running in Sweden,” Tesla stated in the filing, which CNBC translated to English.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated Thursday “This is insane,” in a post on X, the web site he owns formerly acknowledged as Twitter, in reference to a story about the blocked plates.
The lawsuit claims that Tesla ought to be able to collect license plates right “into Tesla’s possession” instead of receiving them by mail, according to the filing.
Shares of Tesla were being down much less than 1% Monday.
Associates for the Swedish authorities did not straight away respond to CNBC’s request for remark.
–CNBC’s Lora Kolodny contributed to this report