Billionaire and owner of Tesla, Ilon Musk, won compensation of $ 23,000, suing the Kitianka for slander, when she stated that Tesla Model 3 of her father was refused by brakes. Daily Mail writes about this.

Zhang Yazhou wrote about the brake refusal on the banner, attached it to a broken car and parked it at the Tesla dealership in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province.

Because of this trick, she was detained for five days. Tesla said that Zhang was lying and sued her.

Tesla is accused of using significant legal resources of the company, as well as warm relations with the Chinese state to intimidate Tesla dissatisfied customers who dare to complain about problems with their cars. It is reported that the success of the company is based on its connections with Lee Qian, the former party leader of Shanghai, who is now the Prime Minister of China, that is, he is inferior only to the rank of Xi Jinping.

Zhang Yazhou, who now will have to pay 23 thousand dollars of the company worth 1.1 trillion dollars and publicly apologize to her, said: “I refuse to accept this. As a consumer, even if I said something wrong, I have the right to comment and criticize... This has nothing to do with damage to their reputation "

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She also became a victim of the information war: one of the leaders of Tesla told the Chinese media that for Zhang “someone is worth” and she allegedly just wants to pull out money from Ilon Mask.

Tesla said that Zhang deliberately disseminated false information damaged by the brand, and demanded 5 million yuan (684,000 US dollars) as compensation.

Over the past four years, Tesla has filed a lawsuit with at least six car owners in China, which had sudden malfunctions of vehicles, complaints about quality or accident, which, according to their statements, were caused by mechanical malfunctions.

The company also sued at least six bloggers and two Chinese media that criticized the company.

Tesla won all eleven cases.

Two decisions, including the decision of Zhang, are on appeal. One thing was settled in an extrajudicial order.

Although Tesla has not yet sued any of its customers in the United States for utterances, Musk said last month on his social network X, which "

Recall that after Musk became a colleague of US President Donald Trump, his behavior causes outrage among Tesla owners. Almost a third of them thinks about selling their electric cars or already getting rid of them.