Tesla sales plunge 59% in Germany to lowest level in years

[microwave@lemmy.world]

Summary

Tesla's sales in Germany fell 59% in January, reaching their lowest level since July 2021, as CEO Elon Musk's political activities may be damaging the brand.

Musk's support for Germany’s far-right AfD and controversial remarks about the country’s history have drawn criticism. Tesla also saw declines in France and the UK, key European EV markets.

Other factors, such as production changes and inventory shortages, contributed to the slump.

Competitors like Volkswagen and BMW gained market share, and rival EV makers are actively courting disaffected Tesla customers.

[reddig33@lemmy.world]

When are the investors and employees going to wake up and kick Elon out of Tesla?

[blaster_m@lemmy.world]

Watch this be a 400 IQ move for Musk to cut away the one thing that his Red peers don't like: icky clean energy things

[wheelcharartist@lemmy.world]

fuck the musk rat

[jeena@piefed.jeena.net]

Nobody wants to be seen in a Nazi-Mobil, not even in Germany, I guess?

[naich@lemmings.world]

Sales plummet.

Musk: "helicopter hats in 2025"

Share price goes up.

[30p87@feddit.org]

Especially most germans

[alecsadler@sh.itjust.works]

Good.

As soon as my lease is up I'm out of this fucking swasticar.

Fuck Elon, fuck the Tesla board for enabling him, I hope they all get cancer.

[redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works]

To put this into perspective, there were 207640 new cars registered in January, of which 1277 were Teslas. That's a measly 0.62 percent of total new car registrations.

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

Well I'd say cancer's a bit much, I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Plus, they have money, and cancer can be mitigated with all the money.

Now, a persistently massive bed bug infestation, severe erectile dysfunction, head lice, singed up for a Jehovah's Witness mailing list, voodoo curses, there are much better ways to have them suffer.

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

helicopter hats in 2025

Hopefully it takes his ass to Mars

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Even if they're on Musk's side, Germans can recognize a shit build car when they see one.

[skvlp@lemm.ee]

Great. Now plunge further.

[then_three_more@lemmy.world]

Money didn't help Steve Jobs.

[john_lemmy@slrpnk.net]

True, but it could be 0%. Or better yet, -100% (count torched cars on there)

[bdonvr@thelemmy.club]

To be fair he was also a dumbass in that regard and repeatedly refused to get actually treated in favor of holistic bullshit.

Iirc he'd have lived quite a lot longer if he had.

[ricdeh@lemmy.world]

He didn't even try (in the beginning). Money and early treatment would absolutely have saved his life.

the Apple mastermind eventually came to regret the decision he had made years earlier to reject potentially life-saving surgery in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements and juices

Forbes

[ricdeh@lemmy.world]

Please don't call for the destruction of property of total strangers, that's very disrespectful.

[ramenshaman@lemmy.world]

Gosh I wonder why

[icytoes@sh.itjust.works]

When the drag on the share price is greater than the cult of personality pull.