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.

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    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.

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        At least we are not letting Tesla start a self-driving test on our streets as Norway is doing.

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        I am ashamed to say that, even after 15 years in cycling cities, I have never learnt to bike with hands on the handle.

        I think it’s part of my personality: 20 years ago when I still drove a car I was fixed with my hands at 10 to 10 on the wheel and I approach every keyboard with my left hand in the WASD shape.

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    I’m honestly just waiting for some really smart person to exploit some bug in a tesla, flash it with custom firmware and I’ll get a used one for a couple thousand bucks lmao.

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    They should scour military stockpiles for any left over ww2 explosives and use them to demolish all tesla factories and dealerships. Give those old material their final hurrah in taking down fascism.

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    13 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

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        When the inevitable revolution is complete, Tesla needs to be socialized

        Yeah I’m sure socialism will save tesla lmaooo.

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        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

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          They are quite good, at least those with a steering wheel. Roomy, very efficient, very little maintenance, great performance, fun to drive, good charging network, nice software. Aren’t perfect or maybe not even the best these days but it would be a shame to have a couple millions cars go to the landfill because of one Nazi.

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    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.

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    17 hours ago

    They need to calm down with that title. It’s only been a few months. Unfortunately people forget way too easily.

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      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.

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          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.

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          Even if they do, Tesla is being unseated as the “default” electric car in the consumer mind, which will persist even if they forget why.

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          The only reason they may never come back is just how good BYD alternative models are. Tesla doesn’t have the edge anymore, and it was coasting on brand loyalty and reputation.

          Well, that reputation is a Seig Heil now.

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      There’s a pretty decent chance of major government action to support the company can be bought. Shit, musk may help build a very expensive situation for himself.

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    I don’t understand why their stock is still 51% higher than it was one year ago.

    It went down significantly since the beginning of the year (~-25%) but less that it went high after November election (~+100%).

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      Eleven states require automakers sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. If they can’t, the automakers have to buy regulatory credits from another automaker that meets those requirements – such as Tesla, which exclusively sells electric cars…The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla’s net income of $721 million – meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020. - source = CNN

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      Because Tesla is a meme stock.

      It’s price has always been completely decoupled from the number cars they sell, and depends on musk constantly lying and promising fully working humanoid robots and self driving taxis by next year.

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      Because Tesla stock is essentially a meme stock and always has been. It’s not based on the actual boring making of cars, but rather the strength of musk’s bullshit powered reality distortion field.

      There’s always some vaporware next big thing that he pitches, but never actually delivers on which is used to justify their ridiculous valuation.

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      It’s going to fluctuate a lot on it’s way down.

      The people who bought it for a high price will also buy at lower prices to get a better average in total. These kinds purchases will increase the price for no other reason and self fulfill the option to sell the total at a slightly higher average than rock bottom. It’s a (risky) way to cut the losses. Many people are probably still holding on to the overpriced stocks. With these things combined, existing investors can maintain an artificial high price. However, unless new investors start buying, it’ll slowly but steadily lose value over time as existing investors manage to seep out.

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    Fucking wonderful!!!

    More of this please!!

    “Drive” the value of the Swastikar into the fucking ground.

    🤡 😂 🖕 🖕

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      hes hoping to get into the AI space like thiel with palintir, ive said it he largely abandoned “TESLA” already

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      The SuperCharger network needs to be spun off into its own company. It’s one of the few positive things to come out of the company, especially now that the Tesla NACS plug/socket has become the SAE J3400 open standard and most EV manufacturers have announced support for it. It’s the only international EV fast charging network that can be seen as comparable to similar gas/petrol chains.

      Their battery storage division that manufactures PowerWalls, MegaPacks, etc. should also be saved (perhaps spun off as well). Those are good quality home & grid-scale battery solutions.

      Their cars, vaporware solar products, robots, etc. all deserve to go the way of the dodo as quickly as possible.