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.
Burn that fucker into the ground
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.
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.
I’m kind of amazed how many unvandalised Teslas there are here in Copenhagen.
It’s a completely overvalued company. Other car companies have a much higher production rate, sell more cars, at a much better quality, and have more market share, yet don’t “enjoy” the same kind of market valuation. In Germany, Teslas are on par with Dacia in terms of production quality, yet Dacia sells cars at a fraction of the cost of Tesla. In other words, it’s a bubble. One way or another, it will burst, and if it takes the nazi boss in charge down with it, even better.
They need to calm down with that title. It’s only been a few months. Unfortunately people forget way too easily.
I suspect Americans may forget, but maybe not Europeans given that him and Trump insulted their national pride. Same with Canadians.
I do hope Americans never forgive and never forget on this one.
What baffles is how completely overbought the stock is and how it refuses to collapse. There must be some big whales propping him up.
Europeans will forget.
Let’s put it like this: Antifascists won’t forget.
Here in the EU we have more than one country that was in fact rebuilt from the ground up centered around an Antifascist identity.
My country, Italy is one of them, and yes, we have at the government a woman who represents a party which is direct descendant of the fascist party, but that’s why you get students and professors in the universities and common people rallying together for Palestine AND against the neo-fascist government’s decrees.
There is an end in sight for Musk, one I can promise: this all ends when every fascist is dead.
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.
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.
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
Ironically they lost two lawsuits against Top Gear/Clarkson when they sent 2 cars to review and both turned out to have problems.
Fitting, eh?
Yes, the fittings were one of the many problems.
Fucking wonderful!!!
More of this please!!
“Drive” the value of the Swastikar into the fucking ground.
🤡 😂 🖕 🖕
Tesla is the poster child of companies that feel the wrath of people who oppose fascism. But this needs to happen to all the companies that kowtow to Trump and his regime, and there’s a whole litany of them.
You can use this site to identify businesses that are 100% MAGA. It was made to help MAGA know where to shop, but it can tell rational people where not to shop.
Or simply for the rest of the world, boycott US products.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On other words, he’ll buy off whoever he thinks will give him what he wants.
