MORE than 100 unsold Teslas have been left abandoned at a parking lot of a former shopping mall.
The once site of a Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Bed Bath & Beyond and a plus-sized clothing store, has become a “cybertruck graveyard”.
In the city of Farmington Hills, the Hunter’s Square shopping center landlord has been getting into hot water with the accumulation of unsold cars in the parking lot.
Planning and community development director of the city, Charmaine Kettler-Schmult, said what he is doing isn’t exactly in the rules: “The enforcement process is being followed and takes time.”
Landlord and head of Symmetry Management, Frank Jarbou, has not responded to calls for comment by other outlets.
A major makeover is in the future plans for the shopping centre, to reconstruct it into a new Meijer grocery store and spot for other retailers.
The beloved arcade of the old Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum will subsequently move the West Bloomfield Township.
It is expected to open in a bigger space later this year.
Tesla also recently took over and repurposed an old Barnes & Noble up the road in West Bloomfield.
It has become a “glitzy” new vehicle showroom and service centre for the electric cars.
The emergence of this Tesla graveyard in Farmington Hills comes as support for CEO Elon Musk has been dwindling.
A #TeslaTakedown boycott has gained traction as Musk has become increasingly associated with far-right politics, with his car company’s sales and stock price sinking.
The company’s first quarter report stated a glaring disparity between sales numbers and production figures, with nearly 50,000 unsold vehicles.
It is not the only Tesla graveyard that has been established, without hundreds of abandoned EVs.
Another was discovered in Florida with Tesla Model 3s scattered around a grassy field.
Residents of Missouri also spotted hundreds of Teslas parked outside the Chesterfield Mall, with more than ten rows filled with Model S and Model Y vehicles.
