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Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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Re: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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Gee I wonder what could have caused this? I’m glad I was early to the party when we cancelled ours when Elon insinuated in a tweet there might be a valid reason for Nancy Pelosi’s husband to have been hit in the head with a hammer in his home. Every Tesla I see now all I see is a FascistMobile.

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Anyone remotely interested in buying the most popular Tesla model (Y) have been waiting for the 2025 update, code-named Juniper. It's been rumored for months and finally launched in Europe on January 24, 2025.

Just like everyone knew about the Highland revamp of the Model 3, same time last year.

The Model Y is the most popular car globally, all mainstream and social media covered the Juniper launch.

Re: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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post #9

FSD makes Tesla superior to any car out there. No other car comes even close. Although I heard that FSD was already crippled in eu so maybe they aren't missing out as much.

https://x.com/zfescht/status/1886375804839313717

This is the best Tesla offers in Europe for now

Re: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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post #8

Well, Model Y was best selling car in the world for 2 years running. Seems a likely candidate to be again. This is probably due to flipping over inventory for the new Model Y to launch

BYD is comin'.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/03/byd-sales-overseas-surge-new-...

Re: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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I think the AfD is going to find that tying themselves with Elon Musk might bring around the hardcore folk who would have gone with fringe political groups it's going to drive away the centre-right. Linking yourself with a guy who did what is considered within Germany to be a Hitler salute is probably not going to go too well for them.

Depends. Do they have the policies the voting public want?

Humans will routinely overlook bad window dressing like prejudice and authoritarianism if they get some policies they like out of the deal. This has shown itself to be true over and over.

If Dieter, 63, from some economically-disadvantaged part of Germany gets a promise to do something about "those people" coming and enjoying the German welfare state and to focus on issues faced by "real Germans", and he thinks he can get something out of it, he might very well forget that the guy the AfD invited to speak did a Nazi salute.

Same happened in the Midwest with Trump and north of England for Brexit.

Re: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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post #4

Chinese have far better and cheaper EV cars. Getting spare parts for Tesla in Europe is a nightmare!

Most European EV sales that aren't Tesla are European brands like Volkswagen Group (VW, Audi, Skoda), BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Stellantis (Pueguot, Fiat, Opel), Renault-Nissan (Renault, Dacia, Nissan), or Korea's Hyundai.

The only Chinese challenger brand that has some traction is Geely via Volvo.

You can see this in EU EV industry data as well from JATO (the EU's auto industry trade group) - https://www.jato.com/resources/media-and-press-releases/euro...

Re: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany

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post #10

It was an open secret for a while, that new model Y is coming. So why buy an old one when few months in the future you can get current model and not the outdated one. Everyone is just waiting to buy new model Y. I took the risk, got old one year ago and now I am very happy, that the new one is rather facelift with couple percent better range and not a revolutionary upgrade. This would be pity. I am just wondering abo…

Yea that's not the main reason, Musk is toxic for the brand. A recent poll in Sweden saw 68% has a negative view of Musk today, up 20% in the past weeks alone.
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