To play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. A Tesla charges at a Tesla supercharging station in the Bay Area. February 18, 2025. Laura Fitzgerald/CapRadio On any given day in Berkeley you’re likely to see what looks like a motorcade of identical Teslas driving by. But lately, more and more Tesla drivers in this notoriously liberal city are putting anti-Elon Musk bumper stickers on their cars. Fred Liao has one of these stickers. It reads “I bought this before Elon went crazy.” He pulled up to the Berkeley Trader Joe’s in his Model 3. “I [feel] ashamed driving Tesla now,” Liao said. “I don’t think it’s right [for] very rich people to influence our decision making process in a so, kind of, direct way.” California is converting to electric vehicles faster than anywhere else in the country. And Tesla sells more of them than any other EV manufacturer. But as Tesla founder Elon Musk takes a central role in President Donald Trump’s administration, some Tesla drivers in the blue state are feeling conflicted. At a grocery store across town called Berkeley Bowl, Christine Will parked her Model X. She didn’t have a sticker, but is in the market for one. She already knew what she wanted it to say. “That I bought it before I knew he was nuts basically,” Will said. “ I've been thinking about it for a long time, but now I really, really want it ever since the inauguration actually.” Will was an early Tesla adopter. She got her car back in 2016, before those looking to buy an EV had as many options as they do now. “I was on board with the, you know, whole EV, climate change, all of that and was excited about the range,” Will said. “You want to do what you can, but I at the same time don't want to be supporting this. This is fascism in my eyes.” Not all Tesla drivers in this liberal stronghold feel the same about Musk’s recent political actions. Vipul Garg says he likes that his Tesla is good for the environment. “His opinions are his opinions, the product he makes is different from the person,” Garg said. Meanwhile, some Tesla drivers are taking their resistance a step further, like Berkeley resident Karla McKerley. “We're actually trying to sell our car,” McKerley said. She and her family were thinking about selling their car for the past few months, but she hit her Tesla tipping point in January. “Frankly when Elon Musk did his what's difficult to not interpret as a Heil Hitler salute, that was like ‘what,’” McKerley said. Musk