Tesla sales plunged in Germany last month, official data showed Wednesday, after billionaire owner Elon Musk waded into the country's election campaign by vocally backing the far right. Last month total electric car sales in Germany rebounded by over 53 percent from a year earlier,

Tesla posted lower sales across five EU countries as competitors with newer models gained and polls show public opinion souring on CEO Musk.

Mr Tusk denounced the words as "all too familiar and ominous", and his tourism minister, Sławomir Nitras, has gone even further and called for Polish citizens - around 6 million of whom died in the Holocaust - to launch a boycott of Tesla vehicles in response.