Tesla's sales plummet across Europe

[droporain@lemmynsfw.com]

"I mean did he have a choice? Think of the poor ceos" /s

[skaverat@discuss.tchncs.de]

you mean "police needs to buy more cybertrucks, so they always have a bunch of spares when they break down due to a puddle"

[yournamehere@lemm.ee]

next the number of not yet deceased tesla owners will shrink too.

[slopppyengineer@lemmy.world]

I can't go anywhere without seeing a few memorials of world war 2. They're everywhere so we wouldn't forget.

[betablake@lemmy.world]

Those cars are crap anyways people should have stopped buying them for that reason alone years ago

[frazorth@feddit.uk]

Ha, you think that the backups even arrive to replace/repair? They'll break down in transit!

[kokesh@lemmy.world]

Nice! Fuck miso and that orange asshole.

[lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com]

Great... US cars finance a Nazi supporter and Chinese cars are spy machines on wheels... Maybe, German cars are superior in the end...

[filister@lemmy.world]

That's uplifting news.

[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

It’s more likely to be political apathy with the Brits. Most of us don’t seem to get and/or bother about politics…also only around 25% of the country were dense enough to vote for Brexit.

[voroxpete@sh.itjust.works]

I'm torn on this one. On the one hand, fuck Musk. On the other hand, the US replacing huge fleets of gas vehicles with electric and building out all the attendant infrastructure would be a huge climate win.

[dirigibleprotein@aussie.zone]

[buffalox@lemmy.world]

Yeah you are probably right, as the saying goes: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
But them again Brexit was mostly about xenophobia, which is both.

[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

I’d say you’re a bit right also. People here love Trump and Musk also, but maybe not the same people.

As a final point, I fucking hate Brexit…”one giant small step for Europe, one giant leap backwards for Great Britain”.

[buffalox@lemmy.world]

VW group is leading in Denmark now on EV, and is now almost twice as big on EV sales as Tesla!!
But the laugh gets better if you read on.
Because Skoda and Audi are closing in too, only 10-15% behind Tesla, and those are also owned by VW, and then just to cement their dominance, they also have Cupra with about half the sales of Tesla, and just for shit and giggles, they also have Porsche, which is the only luxury brand on the EV list besides Mercedes.

For January Model Y has dropped from being #1 sold model to 6th place!!! With WV group having 4 models that are more popular than Model Y!!
Model 3 is way down the list, so it's not just people waiting for the new model Y. Tesla sales are plummeting for real.

[goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world]

Plus, it's a vehicle that's likely to be shit for its owner, so I'm cool with cops having them en mass

[buffalox@lemmy.world]

Absolutely, they've been praised for best range for the price, but the cars are crap, with 30% failing 4 year safety check in Denmark.
They also have a number of issues, on how functions are handled, both essential and non essential, that I personally suspect is the reason they have the worst accident record of all brands. Blinker on the steering wheel instead of on a stick, is OK in maybe 95% of the situations you need to use them, but the remaining 5% it's awkward and distracting, and maybe people completely fail to use them correctly.
So yes they are crap, in part because Tesla ignores safety or is even ignorant about why things are done like they are. And this is shown blatantly clear with the 4 years safety check here in Denmark.

[redredme@lemmy.world]

Correction: Android and apple carplay are just as worse, maybe even more so.

If you're not American it doesnt really matter. Your data in china or your data in the US. Both are bad, m'kay?

[buffalox@lemmy.world]

Yeah it's like when people from UK ask if there aren't any benefits? Oh yes there is, not as many as there are drawbacks, and unfortunately the benefits are all on the EU side.
Ah well, the Brits are still our friends, where would we be if it hadn't been for Monty Python? I suppose formal cooperation will be build up again over time, like we have with Norway. But it would have been better if Brexit had never happened, and that's on both sides IMO.
AfD in Germany also love Musk now that he has expressed support for them. There are idiots everywhere.

[clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Round about way to defund them, force them to spend funding on maintaining overpriced junk.