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Tesla's sales plummet across Europe

by mirzap on 2/6/25, 11:01 AM with 44 comments

  • by stevage on 2/6/25, 11:25 AM

    > Tesla’s drop came as the German EV market in January grew more than 50 per cent year on year, pushing its market share down from 14 to 4 per cent.

    Wow.

  • by baerrie on 2/6/25, 2:49 PM

    Thank you Europe for protesting by withholding money from this psycho.

  • by ndsipa_pomu on 2/6/25, 11:25 AM

    I suspect that Musk has access to a lot of government funds now so will be unconcerned about the lack of Tesla sales.

  • by mirzap on 2/6/25, 11:02 AM

  • by dasKrokodil on 2/6/25, 11:37 AM

    Here in Germany, the somewhat paradox situation is that the right-wing party AfD has been pro-diesel and anti-ev for a long time, while it's usually the more progressive and/or left-leaning people who have been buying EVs.

    But now that Musk has done something which looked very much like a Nazi salute on stage and also meddled in German politics by endorsing the AfD, nobody on the left wants to be seen in a Tesla anymore, while the right-wingers still prefer German diesel cars.

  • by ndsipa_pomu on 2/6/25, 11:21 AM

  • by cjrp on 2/6/25, 11:26 AM

    > [...] amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk’s political activism and meddling in regional politics.

    Hmm, not sure they can attribute the drop entirely to that. In the UK at least there's been a wave of Chinese brands launching (BYD, Omoda, GWM, etc.), fuel prices have fallen from the high in mid-2022[0], and EVs will soon start paying vehicle tax (£195/year, previously £0).

    [0] https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time

  • by amriksohata on 2/6/25, 6:30 PM

    ev sales are falling worldwide, this is bait journalism, germanys economy is also struggling

  • by roenxi on 2/6/25, 11:24 AM

    This is probably driven by the ongoing energy crisis and other economic factors. If we look at electricity use [0] in Germany we see the same old evidence can be seen accross the Western world. Germany is producing the lowest amount of electricity in 40 years. Last time I checked their $/kW was also awkwardly high.

    If the amount electricity available is dropping, are people really going to be adding large new energy-hungry appliances like electric vehicles? I'd suggest not. Shutting off all the nuclear plants still looks pretty dumb, even in hindsight.

    [0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...