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Yserbius123
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Electricity is such a difficult question to begin with. I do believe that most poskim quietly agree that there’s no general issur of using electricity since neither the act of boneh nor aish occurs in many modern uses. Sephardim, including the Ben Ish Chai, used electricity on Shabbos for decades until Chacham Ovadia Yosef ZT”L paskened to not turn on lights. But since aish and boneh do commonly occur it’s far simply to just assur all electricity.

What I mean is that it’s quite possible that driving a Tesla may only incur an issur of breaking a minhag or universal chumra.