Tesla protest at Shanghai Auto Show 2021 ends with woman dragged off by security after climbing onto car and shouting

  • A woman in China claims her Tesla’s brakes malfunctioned, causing her car to crash
  • The company denies this and said the car was speeding, but has refused to release all of the car’s data from the crash

A woman surnamed Zhang climbed onto a Tesla at a Shanghai Auto Show to protest after her Tesla brakes allegedly failed. Photo: Baidu
A woman was detained after dramatically climbing onto a car and shouting about Tesla vehicle malfunctions at a car show in China on Monday.

Video on Chinese social media showed the woman at the Shanghai Auto Show 2021 standing on a Tesla sedan wearing a white T-shirt marked with Chinese characters reading “brake malfunction” and a Tesla logo. She can be heard shouting: “Tesla brake malfunctioned!” for several minutes before being dragged away by security guards. 

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