Tesla’s European future in doubt, but they didn’t get banned in California!

On today's labor-intensive episode of Quick Charge , Germany's largest union IG Metall is squaring off with Tesla in a major dispute involving a toxic work culture, criminal charges, defamation, and more – but at least they can still sell cars in California (for now). That's right, gang – Tesla has managed to avoid a sales ban in California by pivoting away from the use of the word "Autopilot" in its marketing ( which explains that $99 FSD Supervised deal too , btw). Plus: Polestar is rolling out FOUR new production cars in then next THREE years and if you just can't wait for that, there's a whole lot of great deals on a new EV you can drive home today. That featured image up there, by the way, comes courtesy of IG Metall. Source Links Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote German union accuses Tesla ‘toxic’ environment, files defamation against plant manager Tesla avoids 30-day California sales suspension after dropping misleading ‘Autopilot’ marketing Polestar goes on the offensive with FOUR new models in THREE years Hyundai cuts EV prices in response to BYD and Tesla Toyota is already offering a $5,000 discount and 0% financing on its new EVs With a $10,000 discount, the Chevy Equinox EV is hard to pass up Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , TuneIn , and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are (allegedly) recorded several times per week, most weeks. We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and

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Tesla’s European future in doubt, but they didn’t get banned in California! is an episode from Quick Charge by 9to5Mac.

This episode is 11:41 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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