{"id":621853,"date":"2023-12-11T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=621853"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T05:24:55","slug":"elon-musk-forces-eco-conscious-scandinavians-to-choose-between-evs-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/elon-musk-forces-eco-conscious-scandinavians-to-choose-between-evs-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk forces eco-conscious Scandinavians to choose between EVs, unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s abrasive way of doing business may be hurting Tesla Inc. in a region that has embraced electric cars more enthusiastically than anywhere else. <\/p>\n<p>A small walk-out at Tesla\u2019s seven repair shops in Sweden over unfair working conditions has in the past month spiralled into a storm of labor strikes and blockades among the manufacturers\u2019 service providers, and this week, the conflict spread to neighboring Denmark and Norway. <\/p>\n<p>While Musk has called the dispute \u201cinsane,\u201d his refusal to negotiate runs the risk of denting sales in the Nordic countries, where eco-conscious and well-to-do buyers have helped facilitate the consumer shift to cleaner cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s abrasive way of doing business may be hurting Tesla Inc. in a region that has embraced electric cars more enthusiastically than anywhere else. A small walk-out at Tesla\u2019s seven repair shops in Sweden over unfair working conditions has in the past month spiralled into a storm of labor strikes and blockades among the manufacturers\u2019 service providers, and this week, the conflict spread to neighboring Denmark and Norway. While Musk has called the dispute \u201cinsane,\u201d his refusal to negotiate runs the risk of denting sales in the Nordic countries, where eco-conscious and well-to-do buyers have helped facilitate the consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}