Chinese woman who stormed Tesla display at car show detained for five days


Visitors walk past Chinese-made Tesla Inc electric vehicles at the company’s booth at the Auto Shanghai 2021 show in China. Police said Zhang and Li ‘caused chaos’ at the trade fair on April 19 when they arrived at the Tesla display ‘to express their dissatisfaction due to a consumer dispute’. — Bloomberg

SHANGHAI: An unhappy customer who invaded the Tesla booth at the Shanghai auto show by clambering atop a car in protest, creating a social media stir, will be detained for five days, Shanghai police said on April 20.

Police said the woman and a female accomplice – identified only by their surnames, Zhang and Li – “caused chaos” at the trade fair on April 19 when they arrived at the Tesla display “to express their dissatisfaction due to a consumer dispute”.

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