The Swedish Transport Agency is appealing the district court’s decision to let Tesla pick up license plates from the manufacturer.
The authority believes that “the security aspects have not been sufficiently highlighted”.
A week ago, Tesla sued the Swedish Transport Agency and Postnord, after the electric car manufacturer had not received license plates for new cars distributed. Later that day, the Norrköping district court made an interim decision:
Tesla would be allowed to pick up its license plates from the manufacturer.
The decision is now being appealed by the Swedish Transport Agency.
- We believe that the security aspects of a disclosure have not been sufficiently clarified and therefore want to be tested whether the district court’s examination has been correct. The decision is also unclear because it does not say anything about how the district court actually intended how Tesla should collect its license plates, says Anna Berggrund, department director at the Swedish Transport Agency.
They’re appealing it because it’s too vague to be off any use. The Post has a very specific procedure in place for delivering plates. The judge told them “let Tesla get their own” but nothing about how that’s supposed to work. Who from Tesla? Does the Tesla janitor qualify? Who at Post should be responsible for releasing the plates to them? Should this apply to all other recipients going forward?
Nobody at Post is going to do things half-assed and then risk taking the fall for it. This is going to get passed back to the government by requesting that a new official procedure be devised that implements the court’s decision, mark my words. Which will take however long it will take but it definitely won’t be fast.
It’s like ordering a transport company to deliver meat unrefrigerated. Never gonna happen. Even if a judge were to order that, the company would appeal because they have contracts and regulations to cover them.
Tesla sued the wrong entity because Post will just say they were contracted to deliver plates in a very exacting manner and they can do it like that or can’t do it at all. Ultimately they will take themselves out of the line of fire and it will be between Tesla and the government.
Tesla lucked out by getting a short-sighted judge on this initial ruling but it will be overturned on appeal and Post will be cleared. I look forward to them suing the Swedish state next because it’s genuinely going to be very interesting.
I think you’re mixing up cases and agencies?
Tesla sued the Swedish Transport Agency (STA) AND PostNord.
The ruling against the STA is to allow them to pick up the plates at the STA instead of the STA via their exclusivity contract giving them to PostNord. It has nothing to do with PostNord as it lets Tesla go to the STA directly. The STA is appealing this interim decision.
There is no ruling with PostNord yet, the judge gave them 3 days to give an initial argument to decide if he would even make an interim ruling prior to the full case being heard. I imagine Tesla is going to have a really hard time with the PostNord case.