New European car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA.
BYD recorded 13,503 new registrations in July, up 225% annually.
Elon Musk’s automaker faces a number of challenges in Europe, including intense ongoing competition and reputational damage to the brand.
It connects to your phone in the sense that you can:
Make phone calls
Receive and send texts (no Whatsapp/signal/telegram or any other kind of app based messaging)
Listen to audio, if you manually start the playback on the phone
Use your phone hotspot to stream from the built-in Spotify or other streaming services, if you don't want to pay a $120/year subscription
But it can't do basic mirroring like most cars on the market can do.
In this way, if you want to have traffic info or speed camera alerts, you're forced to pay for Tesla premium subscription, as there's no other way to show a third party navigation app on the big screen (except ugly hacks like using the web browser for navigation, which is a safety hazard)