Masses of environmental protesters broke through police and reached the outside of a Tesla Gigafactory, protesting its water usage and planned expansion.
All cars company deserve some push back, but producing EVs isn’t a good reason to single out Tesla.
In this case it seems there’s another factor, which are fear for water resources due to putting too much/large factories in one place, and Elon being an asshole.
Cars are resources intensive in general, although EVs clearly pollute less, even when taking batteries into account (lifecycle analysis), and even if electricity used to charge them isn’t renewable.
All cars company deserve some push back, but producing EVs isn’t a good reason to single out Tesla.
In this case it seems there’s another factor, which are fear for water resources due to putting too much/large factories in one place, and Elon being an asshole.