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Recently, Tesla Musk revealed in an interview with the media: the latest development of Tesla litigation team, is hiring a lawyer for the team. Tesla is often attacked for no reason, so I think we have to have a strong litigation team to fight back, the recruitment of lawyers is under way, and the applicants even include a lot of people who responded to my tweets.

Earlier, in May this year, Musk revealed that Tesla was establishing a "hard nuclear litigation department" to initiate and enforce lawsuits. The team will report directly to him. Musk also stressed that they are looking for "hot-blooded hard-core fighters", not "white-shoe lawyers". Musk added that he would never surrender to unfair cases against us, even if we might lose.

It is understood that in May, according to a report on the US Business Insider website, in 2018, a stewardess of Musk's corporate jet fleet of SpaceX, a US space exploration technology company, accused Musk of sexually harassing her, but was later "silenced" by SpaceX with 250000 US dollars. Musk also responded to the accusation on Twitter, accusing it of being an attack and intended to interfere with his acquisition of Twitter.

In addition, since last year's Shanghai auto show, a female owner of a white T-shirt wearing the words "brake failure" climbed onto the roof of Tesla exhibition car and shouted "Tesla brake failure" to safeguard her rights, the topic of Tesla brake failure has not stopped. After that, many netizens also exposed Tesla failure in various places, which also made Tesla's share price suffer frequently after last year's Shanghai auto show. Up to now, it is still inconclusive whether it is the improper operation of the driver or the problem of Tesla's products.

Tesla, who frequently boarded the hot search due to brake failure, affected the sales performance to a certain extent. According to the latest data from the Federation of passengers, Tesla's retail sales in China in April last year were 25845, down 27.15% from 35478 in March, including 14174 new cars exported overseas. excluding this part, Tesla actually sold only 11671 vehicles in the domestic market in April.

Affected by a series of factors, Tesla's legal Department also came into being in June last year. Its Weibo profile is "think independently and distinguish right from wrong". The Weibo certification company is Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and the audit time is May 31, 2021. It is understood that after the establishment of Tesla's legal Department, many v media exposed and received private messages from the "Tesla legal Department." The content of the private message is: we have noticed that you are still publishing infringing content related to our company. Please be aware that our company has filed a lawsuit in Beijing court. If you want to communicate further, please contact us through the above contact information. It is worth noting that on May 28 last year, the official Weibo of "Tesla customer Service support" posted a number of apology letters from self-media.

In addition, two million fans, Da V, were sued by Tesla to claim 5 million yuan in court this year. One is "Boss Cai", a Douyin millionaire online celebrity. It is understood that in April 2021, Boss Cai exposed in a video that the personnel in charge of Tesla's inspection work had acts such as "eating, drinking and taking cards" in the name of inspection work. At that time, the video caused a heated discussion on the Internet as soon as it was released.

There is also a Douyin 10 million Internet celebrity Xiaogang senior, Tesla sued for the latter's use of the information network to carry out defamation acts. It is understood that the "Xiaogang senior" released two test videos on April 29 and 30, 2021, respectively, for Tesla Model 3 and Xiaopeng P7 for emergency braking test, which respectively installed paper cars and inflatable dummies on the driveway to test the emergency braking function of the vehicle. The final "test" results show that Tesla Model 3 failed to stop and hit the paper car and dummies, while Xiaopeng P7 stopped the perfect emergency brake. Subsequently, the video raised questions from another blogger, Xiao Li Flying car, who released a number of videos questioning the authenticity of the test content. "Xiao Li Flying car" said in the video that the "Xiaogang senior" test Tesla Model 3 secretly stepped on a foot switch, the detail is that Tesla's screen can show the status of stepping on the switch and kinetic energy recovery, while Tesla Model 3 crashed into the paper car, the machine's energy bar still shows that there is still power output. At present, no relevant information has been reported on the prosecution of the two cases.

As for the establishment of Tesla's legal Department, some industry insiders pointed out that Tesla hopes to use legal means to deter Chinese public opinion, so as to ensure the reputation of its brand, so as to save the decline in sales in the subsequent era of rights protection. However, from another perspective, whether it is the establishment of a legal department or a hard-core litigation department, to a certain extent, this can indeed reduce a lot of unnecessary reports, but fundamentally speaking, it still needs fewer cases related to Tesla to fundamentally reduce the attention of the media.

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