TEASER: Why Fighting Tesla Matters with Ed Niedermeyer
The War on Cars
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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This is an excerpt from our interview with Ed Niedermeyer, the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. Ed has been writing about Elon Musk for years, and he's been one of the billionaire's most astute critics since way back.
We talked with Ed for our recent episode "Inside the Tesla Takedown Movement," about his involvement with the protest movement that has sprung up around the country at Tesla showrooms, targeting the destructive alliance between Musk and Donald Trump. Ed believes the protests are quite possibly the most effective tool we have right now to diminish Musk’s influence and power, and to counter the Trump regime.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah Goodyear, and this is The War on Cars, which you're about to hear is an excerpt from our interview with Ed Niedermeyer, the author of Ludacris, The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. |
| 0:24.4 | We talked with Ed for episode 149, Inside the Tesla Takedown Movement, about his involvement |
| 0:30.7 | with the protest movement that has sprung up around the country at Tesla showrooms, targeting |
| 0:36.3 | the destructive alliance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. |
| 0:40.3 | Ed believes the protests are quite possibly the most effective tool we have right now, to diminish Musk's influence in power, and to counter the Trump regime. |
| 0:49.3 | He had so much to say about the Tesla take- down movement, how it's growing, and what effect |
| 0:54.7 | it might have on Musk's bottom line that we wanted to bring our Patreon supporters the full |
| 0:59.9 | discussion. |
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| 1:18.1 | Because of both the built environment and I think the information environment that we're in, |
| 1:23.1 | it's very easy to feel isolated, right? |
| 1:26.0 | You're isolated in your suburban home. |
| 1:28.2 | You're physically isolated. |
| 1:30.2 | You're reading this endless scroll of doom about these things that you can't control, that |
| 1:36.4 | things are happening to you. |
| 1:38.8 | You're not being given a way to do anything about it. |
| 1:41.8 | And that is intellectually and emotionally, spiritually isolating, |
| 1:45.5 | right, in a way that reflects our physical isolation. And one of the things I've been telling |
| 1:49.5 | people is like, look, like, get out of the house, man, like go down to the Tesla store and meet |
| 1:55.0 | people. Just hang out with people. Build some community in person. And I'm not, you know, it's amazing what we're |
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