Summary
Tesla’s European market share is declining sharply, with EU registrations dropping 40.9% in November 2024 compared to last year, and year-to-date registrations down 15.2%.
Including the UK and EFTA, Tesla’s registrations fell 13.7% this year.
The drop stems from reduced government EV incentives and growing dissatisfaction with CEO Elon Musk.
Despite Tesla’s decline, overall EV registrations in Europe have remained stable as competing automakers gain ground. Tesla remains the largest EV producer in Europe but faces growing pressure from rivals capitalizing on its waning dominance.
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As much as I’d like to, I don’t try starlink for the exact same reason. (Although Starlink has other reasons why I’m not going to give them any money)
Reminder that the Tesla strike in Sweden is still ongoing.
Tank god
Tank Girl.
No way I’m giving my money to that fascist, I don’t care how good or bad his cars are
Damn shame too, cause the second gen Roadster is the car I’ve been dreaming of: hard top convertible, sporty, electric, faster than rabbits fucking. But I will never, ever own a Nazimobile.
I hope it at least inspires other automakers to bring back sporty convertibles. Until then I’ll hang onto my 350Z Roadster forever. If that never happens, I guess I’ll have to eventually convert the car to electric. I’m so sick and tired of every battery car being a god damn crossover. They’re too big and corner like shit because of their size.
Nazimobile
so no Volkswagen, BMW, heck perhaps no big car company?
“His” cars are dogshit for the price. The only thing they have going for them is they are fast. Which makes them dangerous since people drive em fast and then cannot stop, since huge battery equals weight. The build quality is dog, the rear door will happily close on your fingers, and sometimes it’ll just brick itself because F you.
And it’ll watch, listen, and report on you the entire time!
I don’t see how people fall for these grocery-store smartphone appliances on wheels, but their predictable, dangerously entitled driving patterns tend to check out.
RIP Tesla. I will never buy one ever again and now champion against them amongst friends & family. Good riddance.
riddance
Thanks, updated.
I have a Model 3 at the moment. I’ve had it for almost 5 years and it’s generally been great - cheap to run, quiet and comfortable on longer trips but still fun to drive on back roads.
Recently it had its first major breakdown, and although Tesla service did manage to take care of it, it’s got me browsing for new EVs - but now, buying a Tesla is not the foregone conclusion it once might have been.
First, they have been making some truly stupid design choices in their latest facelifts (deleting the indicator stalks and gear selector).
Second, their CEO has now gone completely mask-off fascist.
Third - after a few years for the competition to catch up, we now have genuine alternatives from other marques which are just as good if not better EVs than Tesla’s offerings.
I think my next car will likely be a Polestar 2.
European view: I always thought I’d love a Tesla when I make the move to electric.
Would never, ever buy one now and it’s purely because of mister half a trillion election purchasing oligarch.
My parents got one somewhat recently (😒) and I have to say, features are also a negative point. Model Y door override is so inaccessible it might just as well not exist. No haptic control for most things except indicators as they are required by law.
Other than that it’s a car like any other, so no reason to support Tesla specifically.
I got myself an i3 2017 a few months back and while you can tell it’s a first gen EV and only basic non-BMW features (no Android Auto, only basic BT) I much prefer the i3. No random braking on the road, no crazy lane corrections. Not as powerful as the Tesla, but I drive in Eco, anyway.
I love Tesla for what they did for the EV market, but I’ll happily attribute that to the original founders and engineers. M*sk was only PR; if the car was half as tech geeky they’d still be where they are today.
Is there a point where Tesla’s board will oust him to save the brand?
I personally will never consider a product he’s attached to.
I’d support him being attached to one of his rockets at launch
that would be really funny and i hope it happens
Nope. They are tied to the hip. From what I see the Board are just cashing out as it sinks.
Who else is on the board besides him and his brother?
Even his brother tried to get him to back down on all this craziness, but he didn’t listen.
I’m guessing he then shut up and accepted his riches? Lol just wait, people show you who they really are…
Well, Elon blocked his own brother on Twitter after it, so something went down.
TBH I don’t know. I assumed it was a normal board of directors that has a check and balance to the CEO. I should have known it wasn’t.
Edit- Actually, there is a traditional board. My question still stands then. https://ir.tesla.com/corporate
The state of Delaware ruled in a lawsuit that the Tesla board is under control of Musk and not really an independent board as it should be
That’s…odd. Why even have one then?
How come those gods of capitalism aren’t even that good at running businesses? Seems like the whole thing is a sham.
And they always preach they wanna “run this country like a business.”
It’s so bleak.
Everyone who says that is actually a fascist. Countries are not businesses and they should not be run like them. They are not profit seeking enterprises.
The whole concept of maximising profits for the shareholders is toxic. Even for companies. It totally ignores the cost-benefit calculus of every other group connected to it. Employees, customers, environment, countries. There needs to be a change to this basic tenet in order for humanity to survive.
I used to be really keen on Teslas but a combination of Elon and stories of poor quality and after sales support have killed the brand for me.
They could be the best cars on Earth and Elon’s fuckery would be enough for me to do every tiny bit I could to keep their stock as low as possible.
Polestar sells something for a similar price and better quality, and without awkward associations with a billionaire nazi.
“but he’s an entrepreneur genius” -s
I like your sarcasm flag *nix style rather than DOS
I’m guessing Elon endorsing the “drive your car into a crowd of Christmas shoppers” party is not going to help.
His own cars have already been doing that more than enough. So maybe he feels a bond with AfD over this incident?
Get ready for the “full self-driving” defence.
What’s the link between the AfD and the terrorist?
EDIT: https://taz.de/Anschlag-auf-Magdeburger-Weihnachtsmarkt/!6058115/
He’s from Saudi Arabia but he hates islam and thinks the german government conspires to turn Germany into an Islamic country. He has ties to multiple AfD officials as evidenced by his Twitter account.
What a plot twist
Turns out the real terrorists were the fascists we made along the way…
You mean apart from parroting AfD talking points and retweeting Elon Musk?
The Elon Musk who endorsed the AfD before the man drove into the crowd?
I was just asking for context, which I’ve since found (see edit). Chill man ✌🏻
Be careful, he lives here.
Sorry, but it’s been a major part of this story so it felt like a loaded question.
Somehow investors will spin this as a positive thing and share price will go up still lol
I’m not sure they can spin their way out of this one. The number of new car manufacturers that are spinning up in the last ten years compared to the fifty before it is mind blowing.
I see Tesla getting swallowed whole in a very competitive market in the next twenty years. Their early mover advantage is all but erased.
Edit: and the European manufacturers are catching up fast. I heard the new Renault is a super little car. There will always be some bias to buying European in Europe (as I’m sure is the case with other places, but Tesla had genuine caché for a while). That God awful cyber tank thing will never sell well here.
I hope so!
It’s slowly becoming a point of abject loathing. Many of us openly laugh at Tesla drivers, not in the least because they’ve taken the crown of “deadbeat drivers” from BMW & Mercedes a long time ago. See an asshole on the road? 66% chance it’s a Tesla.
If you need to cut someone off, best to do it to a Tesla as the car is likely to prevent collision and you get to piss off a musk simp
How about not creating dangerous and potentially deadly situations in traffic, no matter how much we disdain the cars brand or think the other driver is an asshole?
You cut off the Tesla, the Tesla breaks, the car behind crashes and the whole thing might turn into a mass accident with dozens of injuries and some people killed…
The thing is that Tesla driver has already cut off several people that day
I’m not talking about anything at speed that you’re assuming anyway. But now I gotta ask if you’re embarrassed driving your Tesla?
I am from Germany. I am used to people pulling crazy reckless maneuvers in their BMW, Mercedes, Audi or now Teslas too. But they pull this shit at 220 kph, so any slight miscalculation and you get half a dozen people killed.
Handed back my model 3 leasing car in September. As long as they are the right wing nutcase is involved I will not buy anything from them again.
