- DogeQuest claimed to have the names of both DOGE employees and Tesla owners.
- From what we can see, the Tesla owner and facilities list is very incomplete.
- Currently, the website is down.
Yesterday, the internet was shaken up by a website that looked straight out of Black Mirror. The site, called DogeQuest (which I won’t link to here) is supposedly an interactive map that reveals the identities of Tesla owners in various states. It also paints a target on the backs of Tesla service centers, not-so-subtly encouraging visitors to take action against them.
Owners listed on the site are told they can be removed if they send proof to the e-mail address with proof they’ve sold their cars. Moreover, it purports to list the personal information of employees from DOGE, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s unofficial government-gutting effort.
The thing is, that site isn’t passing my smell test. Let’s think about it for a second here.
The website says that Tesla only has six owners in all of Central Ohio. Come on, I live here. We’re not exactly EV-friendly, but things aren’t that damn bad. I know at least six Tesla owners and none of them are on this list. The Model 3 and Model Y are still fairly common out here. Even the Cybertruck, Model X and Model S are familiar sights around my city. The list also doesn’t have the three superchargers in town, one of which has been standing for at least five years.
I’m not going to say that all of the information listed is fake. Other outlets have verified some of the data and learned that these are real Tesla owners (at least at one point in time). But, none of this makes any damn sense. It’s not clear if the owners listed are associated with DOGE, or how the two are linked.
At best, the information is highly incomplete and incredibly suspect; any Tesla owner who fears for their safety after this should probably rest a little easy.
It’s not like Tesla’s cars are especially rare. Just walk five minutes in any direction in any given American city and you’ll run into a Tesla of some sort. Similarly, the location of Superchargers or Tesla stores is easily searchable information; nobody’s keeping EV charger locations a secret. If someone wanted to repeat what happened in Las Vegas, South Carolina or Belfast, they wouldn’t need a poorly-written database to figure out how to plan their next move. They’d just do it. They already are doing it.
This escalation in Tesla protesting feels precarious. As the Tesla Takedown gains steam, the Trump administration has claimed that vandalism on Tesla dealerships should be considered “domestic terrorism.” (It’s highly unclear how the vandalism of one specific company’s products, normally a state-level offense, could possibly now become a federal charge.)
InsideEVs was unable to see or verify the identity of the person who made DogeQuest. Perhaps it was a poorly-intentioned Tesla boycott and protestor wanting direct action. Or it could be something else entirely. Whatever the case, the website is stupid as hell.
As of right now, the website is down anyway.
Contact the author: Kevin.Williams@InsideEVs.com
