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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Burn that fucker into the ground

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm kind of amazed how many unvandalised Teslas there are here in Copenhagen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Surely you could manage two middle fingers as long as you're not in a sharp turn!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have never learnt to bike with hands on the handle

my hands at 10 to 10

I'm not sure if you are a terrible driver and bad typer or great driver and good typer...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Ooops, it's "without" hands on the handle.

And 10 past 10.

I am a late typer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ironically they lost two lawsuits against Top Gear/Clarkson when they sent 2 cars to review and both turned out to have problems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, the fittings were one of the many problems.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Good. Destroy it!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Burn baby burn

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Their repairability shouldn't be reduced that much more than what they already are to be fair

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

Yeah I'm sure socialism will save tesla lmaooo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I dunno, I wound up with a Model S via uber once, and the back seats felt like rocks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hate how reliant on touch screens they are. Ain’t for me, but many new cars are like that these days. Not a fan really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It'll be nice when that fad passes, it's absolutely shit from a human-factors engineering point of view and I'm sure a properly-conducted study would show that it costs lives.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

If it lost 90% of its value, it'd still be overvalued

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

He got what he deserved.

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