The Volkswagen plant under the Nazis contained four concentration camps and eight forced-labor camps.

Sometimes I think someone is just trolling the celebrities, honestly.

In more recent times -

Many people also pointed out the VW emissions scandal, where they programmed their cars to pass inspection tests, but the same cars puts out more emissions in real-world driving.

It's not as dramatic as literally publicly supporting nazis, but the hypocrisy if buying a an electric car for environmental points, from a company who was recently deliberately cheating environmental tests..