The police said the man spray-painted the word “resist” on the doors of a Tesla repair center and then used a firearm and Molotov cocktails to damage five vehicles.
The backlash against the electric vehicle company has turned violent at times, as its billionaire chief executive parlays his support for President Trump into consequential influence over the federal government.
The fires, which the police said were intentionally set, are the latest in a series of attacks against Elon Musk’s company.
Police believe the blaze at a high-voltage power pylon had been deliberately set, amid turmoil over the automaker’s plans to expand its assembly plant near Berlin.