Summary
Tesla’s registrations in France dropped 63% in January, their lowest since August 2022, far outpacing the broader total EV sales’ 0.5% decline.
Tesla registrations across EU countries fell 13% last year, with Germany accounting for much of the decline.
Sales in Germany, Tesla’s biggest European market, also fell 41% last year due to an aging lineup, competition, and subsidy cuts.
CEO Elon Musk’s political involvement, including support for Germany’s far-right party, may be affecting demand.
He’s not worth the wasted filament…
what if we created it from grinding up tesla bumpbers
I feel like no matter what animal people use to insult a human, the human is usually worse than the actual animal. Even with snakes. Muskrats are sweethearts, they just swim around ponds and tag along with beavers.
Snakes, rats, sharks, and pigs. These are all beautiful animals, but describe terrible humans. These animals don’t deserve the association. I agree with you, and maybe we should stick to double-crossers, snitches, shysters, and cops or find other catchy names that work.
I work in tech in Germany. My coworkers and I are the ideal Tesla customers. Nobody I know would consider buying a Nazi car.
Call it a swasticar, Elmo hates it.
Stfu
What? Swasticar and elmo are your triggers?
Sorry i had a moment. But theres no point to putting so much effort into expressing hatred for tesla and i just think its kind of obnoxious. I get it but just dont buy them.
Tesla deserves raw, spend your whole night raging online, never buy, avert your eyes hatred.
Because they aren’t just associates with, but are an extension of, a demonstrably dangerous to billions anti-democratic greedy Nazi wannabe (which is a Nazi in common parlance).
No respect, no apathy, no acceptance of Nazis when the corpses of the last ones to barely beat them at the cost of a generation are barely cold.
That’s actually really insightful. You see hatred as primarily having an effect on the target. I see hatred as primarily having an effect on the hater.
It really is two ways of thinking.
I see a fight-or-flight response to a threat and a decision made. Stressors are a two way street and the fight choice doesn’t always or even often leave both sides unharmed.
Yes okay but i we can hold that conviction without being constant with it. If it did something positive then I wouldnt critcize it. Seems pointless.
We’re not talking about disagreements over sports teams, Musk is using people’s money to scam a ton of people and influence elections by pushing extremists into government and openly break laws. He’s a malignant individual.
Just because its a serious topic doesnt mean circlejerking suddenly becomes a good use of time.
What do you think circlejerking is and why?
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Does T stand for tits?
Are you in need of help?
I waited until I could get my hands on a Hyundai EV because I couldn’t stomach Musk. A buddy is currently considering a used Tesla because prices have cratered - but is factoring in the cost of several large ‘Musk Sucks’ stickers to plaster all over it.
Looks like Elon Twittered Tesla.
Or he Xed it out.
He did not see that coming
He let that sink in.
Hop damn
Sadly, he’s already tapped the US Treasury like a Keg.
Can’t say I can blame them for not wanting to give their money to a Nazi.
The interesting part of the story is not so much that Tesla is losing – it’s who is winning. Electric vehicles are in MASSIVE demand throughout the world. The USA has responded more or less by putting an iron curtain in place against BETTER electric vehicles produced elsewhere. Sure, our governments use some scary words around Chinese imports, but look at their cars in isolation, especially BYD. By almost any metric you can imagine, BYD products are superior. The USA is temporarily putting their head in the sand about China. However, make no mistake, in other markets where there is FAIR competition, America’s lunch is getting eaten. This cannot go on forever. Hopefully our US auto producers get their heads out of their ass and start competing instead of relying on tariffs to level the playing field. Tarriffs can make Tesla competitive domestically, but if you want to dominate the world, this is almost certainly not the way forward.
You couldn’t get me to drive a Tesla even if you paid me for it
I might be tempted to as long as the destination was “into a lake”.
Edit: as soon as I wrote that, I realized: I don’t wanna pollute a lake so nevermind.
Any day now, Elon Musk’s failures will catch up with him and then we can dance on his grave of failure.
Stupid nerd who never accomplished anything!
Good keep it going!
Couldn’t happen to a “better” man
The French (rightly) hate Nazi stuff. 🤷♂️
What ? They vote for Le Pen in droves. They love that nazi biatch.
There’s another factor that jumps to mind when I think of cars in France: they buy A LOT of French cars! I don’t have any statistical data, but it feels like half of the cars on their roads are French… And now that their manufacturers’ offer of EVs is starting to flesh out, they probably prefer buying “local”.
As far as I know, Renault sales is ramping up.
I mean, have you seen the new R5? Sexy!
Was in France for 3 weeks on holiday and saw almost exclusively Citroën, Renault, and Peugeot. My rental car was a Renault E Tech and after driving it,I looked into importing one to the USA (sadly it’s not possible for regulatory reasons).
Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi share platforms. Mexico has Peugeot and Citroen. Who knows, maybe the Canadians will open up to the French automobile brands as Mango Mussolini continues to fuck GM, Ford and Stellantis (North American operations).
Mexico may have French brands, but here in Sonora (I live in on the USA side), I’ve never seen any. Actually learned something new haha.
I’ve see a single Renault up here in Canada every summer for the past few years and the one time I got close enough I saw it had Mexican plates on it.
Renault E Tech and after driving it,I looked into importing one to the USA (sadly it’s not possible for regulatory reasons).
That’s hilarious taking into account European standards are stricter than US. US industry clearly don’t like competition.
French cars are banned in the USA (also we use CCS1, moving to NACS, while y’all use CCS2 everywhere), but we have Volvo, Pollstar, and German brands everywhere. I wanted a Volvo for my new car, but they’re not rated for towing horses in the USA like they are in Europe (USA versions are rated half the towing capacity than in Europe).
Not a large drop enough, let’s make that 100% please
And they haven’t even slapped a bunch of tit-for-tat tariffs on them yet.
