Tesla kicks out Vancouver car show

The recent wave of attacks on Tesla cars and showrooms continues to negatively impact the automaker’s business. Organizers of this month’s Vancouver Auto Show announced yesterday that they will launch the EV brand from the lineup due to safety concerns.

The show seems to be growing worried that the existence of Tesla cars that begin today may attract angry protests and more vandalism attacks. After deciding to want Tesla, VIAC provided the brand with multiple opportunities to pull out on its own terms and refused.

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So, as Tesla Motors is ready to go at the Vancouver Convention Center and ready to have the expected 130,000 visitors to end, organizers chose the nuclear option just a day before the show door opened.

“The Vancouver International Auto Show has evacuated Tesla…after providing automakers with multiple opportunities for voluntary evacuation,” Eric Nicholl, executive director of the auto show, said in a statement from the Vancouver Sun. “The main focus of the Vancouver Auto Show is the safety of attendees, exhibitors and staff.”

Images taken by the Vancouver Sun show Cybertruck, Model 3 and the modified model Y in the showroom. Now, demonstrators will have to be happy with nearly 200 cars from other brands, including GM, Ford and Toyota, which will remain on the scene.

VIAC has allowed Tesla to display cars due to its close relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump. Like Trump, Musk also questioned Canada’s sovereignty.

Tesla and Tesla’s showrooms are targets for protesters who are angry at Musk’s work for Trump’s dojo, which has left thousands of federal employees unemployed. Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi tagged the perpetrators as domestic terrorists and promised “serious consequences” to anyone who committed crimes against Tesla.