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.

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    54·
    16 hours ago

    Good.

    As soon as my lease is up I’m out of this fucking swasticar.

    Fuck Elon, fuck the Tesla board for enabling him, I hope they all get cancer.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      1216·
      16 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·
        11 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·
          12 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·
          14 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·
            11 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·
          14 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.