A senior Tesla executive has canceled her attendance at a conference in Rome over fears of protests surrounding the carmaker. Tesla cars, infrastructure and offices have recently become targets of vandalism in several countries, including Italy, in response to CEO Elon Musk’s right-wing activism. “Given the recent protests and violence against Tesla, and now in Rome, I’ve been asked to hold my external presence and travel . . . I won’t be able to attend,” Samantha Harris, Tesla’s Global Sustainability Lead, explained in an email to the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability (EIIS). She had been due to speak at Regenerative Futures, a conference planned in Rome for May 16-17 by the EIIS.
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