Summary

Tesla’s sales in Europe collapsed in April, plunging over 50% in several countries despite an overall 23.9% rise in EU EV sales.

Sweden saw an 81% drop, the Netherlands 73.8%, and France 59%.

The refreshed Model Y failed to revive interest as buyers turned to alternatives, citing CEO Elon Musk’s controversies or superior competitors.

Tesla’s Q1 EU market share fell from 2.4% to 1.3%. Including the UK and EFTA, sales dropped 37.3%. Globally, 2024 was Tesla’s worst delivery year in two years, raising doubts about a near-term recovery.

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    4 days ago

    Fucking wonderful!!!

    More of this please!!

    “Drive” the value of the Swastikar into the fucking ground.

    🤡 😂 🖕 🖕

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    3 days ago

    Can’t pretend I’d be sad to see them crash out completely, although it does make me feel a little uneasy for repairability of existing Teslas.

    Nazi or no nazi, it isn’t gonna be good for the planet to have a whole bunch of cars deemed irrepairable, although my guess is a buy out would stop that happening.

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      When the inevitable revolution is complete, Tesla needs to be socialized! People should really start talking about this and aiming for it seriously as a an end goal.

      Tesla is manufactured locally and they’ve been heavily investing in building factories while all the other car makers went out. This is one of the things Tesla did right and why Elon was well loved by liberals, before he went all out as a Nazi.

      And look the last thing I want to do right now is defend Elon’s anything, and the Chinese EVs have really caught up, but Teslas are great EVs that are reliable but will be on the road and need service for decades to come.

      Socialize and nationalize Tesla, it was built by the most talented American engineers and hard workers all for the profit of one Nazi and his family, let’s fix that last bit.

      Socialize Tesla. Take it back from the Nazi enemy of the state, give it back to the people who built it.

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        When the inevitable revolution is complete, Tesla needs to be socialized

        Yeah I’m sure socialism will save tesla lmaooo.

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        Teslas are great EVs

        Are they though? I would never buy a Tesla, I would buy an Ioniq in a heartbeat though

        Edit: this is not a criticism, I agree with your comment. Just a discussion. I would argue that Tesla is way behind on tech

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            It’ll be nice when that fad passes, it’s absolutely shit from a human-factors engineering point of view and I’m sure a properly-conducted study would show that it costs lives.

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          They are quite good, at least those with a steering wheel. Roomy, very efficient, very little maintenance, great performance, fun to drive, good charging network, nice software. Aren’t perfect or maybe not even the best these days but it would be a shame to have a couple millions cars go to the landfill because of one Nazi.

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    4 days ago

    What baffles me is that conservatives usually don’t believe in global warming and don’t care about the environment so they are less likely to purchase an EV. So why is Musk courting them? Presumably he did a lot of damage to the brand. And it doesn’t help either that the Cyberpunk is one giant flop, similar to Fiat Multipla.

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      hes hoping to get into the AI space like thiel with palintir, ive said it he largely abandoned “TESLA” already

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      I’ve gotten Multiplas as rentals on a couple occasions. They’re ugly as sin, but are actually kind of practical, don’t have the same crap quality as a Tesla, and cost a lot less.

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        Fair point, I was mostly talking about the looks. What makes matters worse is that the Cyberpunk is also very dangerous on the road both for pedestrians and also other cars. I am so glad that this monstrosity isn’t allowed in Europe.

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      Musk was courting democrats until he fell out with them over labour rights. I think his “republican phase” started due to pushing for less workers rights in the US, so that he can make cheaper cars.

      That was obviously a long time ago, before X and DOGE, he’s clearly in a delusional hate bubble at this point and expecting rationally explainable actions is unfortunately too big an ask.

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    I do my part here in Denmark (which is chock full of Tesla), by giving the middle finger to every Swastikar that passes me by on my commute by bike.

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        At least we are not letting Tesla start a self-driving test on our streets as Norway is doing.

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        I am ashamed to say that, even after 15 years in cycling cities, I have never learnt to bike with hands on the handle.

        I think it’s part of my personality: 20 years ago when I still drove a car I was fixed with my hands at 10 to 10 on the wheel and I approach every keyboard with my left hand in the WASD shape.

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          I have never learnt to bike with hands on the handle

          my hands at 10 to 10

          I’m not sure if you are a terrible driver and bad typer or great driver and good typer…

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      Hypothetically another major recall could cause more cars to be returned than sold.

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    They should scour military stockpiles for any left over ww2 explosives and use them to demolish all tesla factories and dealerships. Give those old material their final hurrah in taking down fascism.

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    How amazing - it turns out capitalism works best when consumers have the ability to vote with their wallets. Meanwhile in the US, I’m going to start handing out swastika stencils to people can spray paint them onto Model S’s.