March 24, 2025
The FBI launched a task force Monday to try to nail the criminals setting fire to Tesla vehicles and charging stations — calling the acts “domestic terrorism” and eyeing an anarchy blog calling for more.
The bureau has received reports of 48 instances so far this month related to Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations and is investigating at least seven of them in conjunction with local law enforcement, The Post has learned.
The agency’s newly formed 10-person task force will deploy ATF personnel — special agents and intelligence analysts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Treasury Department — and personnel from the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, including its Domestic Terrorism Operations Section and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
ATF is also embedding personnel in FBI field offices starting with San Antonio, Texas, where some of the Molotov cocktail attacks have been carried out.
President Trump has vowed to be tough on the violent vandals behind the cross-country attacks targeting billionaire buddy and adviser Elon Musk’s company.
He recently suggested sending the criminals to serve 20-year jail sentences in El Salvador, where the US recently rented out a prison for deported illegal alleged gang members.
The FBI is treating the attacks as “domestic terrorism” and tracking people who threaten to carry out vandalism on the electric-vehicle company as part of a revenge plot on Musk’s government intervention as head of the controversial Department of Government Efficiency.
Three people have been arrested so far for some of the attacks, which involved lighting Tesla cars and charging stations on fire. US Attorney General Pam Bondi has also labeled the cases “domestic terrorism” and stressed that the individuals are facing up to 20 years in prison.
The FBI is looking over security camera footage and has gotten access to cell-phone locations for some of the unsolved cases.
The incidents so far include:
- A Tesla Cybertruck being lit on fire in a storage lot in Seattle, Washington.
- Seven Tesla charging stations set ablaze in Littleton, Massachusetts.
- Tesla vehicles set on fire with two Molotov cocktails in Austin, Texas.
- Tesla vehicles being shot at and lit on fire with Molotov cocktails in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- A Tesla dealership being shot at in Tigard, Oregon.
- Two Molotov cocktails targeting Cybertrucks in Kansas City, Missouri.
- A charging station being damaged with drilled holes in Seattle, Oregon.
- A Tesla dealership and vehicles being spray-painted with “F–k Nazi Scum” and “F–k Nazis” in San Diego, California.
- A battery station being set on fire and spray-painted with “BURN NAZI CAR KILL ELON” in Seattle, Oregon.
The bureau also is looking into an anarchist blog being run out of Salt Lake City, Utah, and tracking a mass protest called “Tesla Takedown” scheduled for March 29 calling for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms and charging stations.
In addition , the FBI identified the site Dogeque.st that has information doxxing Tesla employees and locations across the country and being run out of the African country of Sao Tome.
Bomb squad removes incendiary devices from Tesla dealer in Austin, Texas
Amid the federal government’s actions to contain these attacks, police in Austin, Texas, got a call Monday morning about possible hazardous materials found at a Tesla dealership.
Responding officers reported “suspicious devices” and called in a bomb squad, which determined the devices to be “incendiary” and took them away without incident, Austin police said.
Police declined to release further details about the type of incendiary devices they found, noting the FBI is now the lead agency investigating the incident.
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