SchipholTaxi Does Not Agree With Lawsuit Against Tesla

Plaintiffs are no longer with the company.

All stories have many sides that deserve to be told. When NRC.nl – the biggest newspaper in the Netherlands – reported four SchipholTaxi drivers were suing Tesla for many defects in their cars, you probably heard about that with InsideEVs. We then got in touch with the law firm in charge of suing Tesla and with SchipholTaxi. According to the director of the latter, none of them works for the company anymore.

“We have no connection with these drivers whatsoever, and they are not doing this on behalf of SchipholTaxi. They used to work with us in the past, but got a bit resentful. We don’t agree with what these drivers are doing and do not plan to join.”

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Reliability: Dutch Taxi Drivers Sue Tesla For Model S Problems

Gamis el Bouakili does not agree that Tesla cars are troublesome, as the drivers claim in their lawsuit. The best argument the company has on that is that it increased the number of Tesla vehicles it had.

“We have 72 Tesla owned by ourselves, operated by 180 drivers. Besides that, we have over 100 Teslas owned by our self-employed drivers.”

The 167 Tesla Model S automobiles that the Schiphol Airport started using in 2014 did not belong exclusively to SchipholTaxi.

“That was the total amount of cars from us and BIOS – the other company at the airport. We started with 96, and BIOS started with 71. They are the ones with the Model X now. They traded in their Model S units.”