---
title: "Drive Wire: Tesla and Reno Gazette-Journal Face Off"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-15"
modified: "2015-10-15"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/507/drive-wire-tesla-and-reno-gazette-journal-face-off"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Tesla"
---

# Drive Wire: Tesla and Reno Gazette-Journal Face Off

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Transcript:

Things have taken a violent turn in the world of automakers versus journalists. Tesla is claiming two trespassing employees of the Reno Gazette-Journal struck a Gigafactory employee with their Jeep. The employee suffered some bruises and cuts, the Sheriff was called, the driver of the Jeep was arrested, and now Tesla wants justice. The Gazette-Journal is refusing comment at this time, saying it won’t discuss either the current ongoing investigation or tell us whether they’re a Gazette… or a Journal.

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