Tesla Sales Plunge 59% in Germany to Lowest Level in Years
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Tesla Inc.’s sales plummeted 59% last month in Germany, where Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk asserted himself in national politics like never before.

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.

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
    1216·
    15 hours ago

    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.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      Probably just a Swamp German it’s a theme with them, e.g. using “contract the bubonic plague” to mean “fuck you”.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Speaking of different cultures, there’s an insult here in Appalachia, maybe the South too, it’s “Yer ate up”

        I always thought it meant like you’re so full of disease (cancer) that it’s destroyed your internals. I haven’t heard someone say it in a long time, it was more of a boomer thing.

        I just looked it up and I guess it’s from the military? Who knows. Anyway, it can be a pretty bad insult.

      • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
        11·
        11 hours ago

        It would have if he had gotten real treatment instead of just eating fruit. He literally had the only type of pancreatic cancer that we could treat at the time.

      • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        13 hours ago

        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

        • then_three_more@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 hours ago

          Yes but it didn’t because he thought he could drink kale juice or something instead of spending on it. So you just need cancer and a belief in quack medicine.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        9·
        13 hours ago

        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.