Some buyers in Lithuania cancel Tesla orders in protest against Musk

VILNIUS - Some car buyers in Lithuania have cancelled their car orders in protest against the activities of electric carmaker Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in the US administration, Lithuania's national broadcaster LRT's news website reports on Tuesday.

"People who had ordered new Teslas, certainly part of them have recently cancelled their orders. They have openly said that they did so because of moral issues, because of Musk's statements, they simply do not want to buy them anymore. For others it was fine, they don't look beyond the political stuff and so on," Rokas Ablozevicius, head of Deals on Wheels, a company that helps customers buy Tesla cars, told BNS.

The company used to sell about 5-8 Teslas a month.

According to Gintenis Dauparas, a representative of the classifieds ad website Autoplius.lt, it is still difficult to assess the real impact of the "anti-Tesla" movement in Lithuania, as various protests started not so long ago and there is not a lot of new data on the Lithuanian car market.