Tesla pilots in Sweden are trapped on waiting at Super-Charge stations. Tesla blames the movements of the union that prevent them from connecting their new stations to the network.
For more than a year now, Tesla service workers in Sweden have been on strike, demanding inclusion in a collective agreement.
Tesla has traditionally opposed unions and has controlled unionization at its production facilities. Initially, this strike in Sweden seemed manageable, involving only a few dozen workers. However, Tesla has underestimated the strength of solidarity among Swedish workers.
While the automobile manufacturer controlled to avoid the strike through service workers, he now feels that he has an effect of “sympathy attacks” of other unions in Sweden.
Several other unions in the country, adding port painters, electricians and cleaning facilities who paint with Tesla, have refused to cooperate with the company in the strike.
Now, one of those sympathy movements is beginning to cause the owners of housing of Tesla and other electric vehicles.
Union if Metall used its influence to prevent Tesla from driving overwhelming stations to exert tension to take them to the negotiating table, and the holidays, these effects on incredibly long lines on the supercharging stations in operation, since some were published in X (Nicklas Nilsso)
We have already noticed long waiting lines in Tesla Superchargers, but I think it can be the longest I have noticed.
Tesla’s own owner has released a local compressor card that showed that the vast majority of stations in the country recently require wait times for a charger:
Zegher Max, guilty of the Tesla rate, commented on the stage and blamed the union movements for having avoided that more than one hundred super new rates were under tension:
One of the “sympathy attacks” is becoming quite shocking, as expected, Swedish EV drivers are suffering and that EV infrastructure does not maintain itself unless overchangers are energized through profits that drip from being energized. For peak days like this. More than a hundred fucking in Sweden would have been under tension this winter, without the attacks of sympathy.
He added that there is no “transparent route” to fix the situation:
Although there is still no transparent path, we will also continue to invest and build sites for Swedish electric vehicle drivers, adding more capacity in Malung, Käppen, Vansbro, Idre, Särna and Sunne. We appreciate the public to help us. Dynamic supercharging in operation as soon as possible. Make on the line like this is super painful, the adoption of EV hurts and completely fixable!
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a hard line against unions and shown unwillingness to negotiate with them.
In Europe, both Tesla cars and superchargers use CCS2. Every car is supposed to be compatible with every charging station. So couldn’t those drivers simply charge at a different charging network, which would presumably be unaffected by the strikes? I guess Sweden doesn’t have enough capacity without Tesla? Seems like the government should consider some new infrastructure investment so their citizens are not so reliant on a badly-managed American company.
The automaker is also facing growing union pushbacks in Germany.
It’s a disappointment. As said by Zegher, waiting lines at chargers are not a correct look for electric vehicles. The clever news is that other top people know that the explanation for why for this challenge in this case is this union dispute that is a genuine challenge with electric vehicles.
Now, of course, Tesla blames the unions, and the unions blame Tesla to care about them.
Can’t we just all be friends?
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