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Early car sales data for January is starting to arrive from countries across the pond, and they paint an alarming picture for Tesla. Sales are crashing in France, Germany, and the UK—all affluent countries that are key markets for Tesla's electric vehicles. Coming on the heels of a large financial miss, it's just one more problem for the automaker.

Tesla sales dropped around 13 percent across Europe in 2024, but so far this year, the scale of the problem is far greater. In France, sales of new Teslas fell by 63 percent, while total car sales in the country fell by just 6 percent, with EV sales dropping just half a percent.

Germany was already looking like lost ground for Tesla—its 41 percent drop in 2024 accounted for most of Tesla's lost sales across Europe. That must make the 59 percent drop in German Tesla sales recorded during January even more painful on the profit and loss statements.

Across the Channel, the British auto industry just released its sales data for January. Here, Tesla sales fell less precipitously—just 12 percent. However, battery EV sales were 35 percent higher in the UK in January 2025 than in January 2024. The cake is growing, but Tesla is getting to eat less and less of it.

In fact, no Tesla cracked the UK's top 10 best-seller list last month, something that has regularly happened in the past, although that may be due to having just two models for >sale in most markets.

Large declines have also been recorded in Sweden (44 percent), Norway (38 percent), and the Netherlands (42 percent).

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Europeans don't want to drive a Swasticar? Why? Did something happen to make them dislike Nazis for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Looks at my VW

*Erika intensifies*

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At least the current vw CEO isn't openly a Nazi and they make good cars; unlike muskrat and his swasticars.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

No one wants to drive a swasticar.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Its investment in the Cybertruck is of no help in the region, as the steel-clad pickup truck is too large and heavy for use with a normal driver's license and does not conform to road legality regulations.

I was not aware of this. Further reasons to laugh at Musk are always welcome!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Anyone driving anything close to a pickup here is a knob. Ford Rangers or Raptors are for men whos wives dress them.

Hilux was acceptable but they are in the same boat now, you all look ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (13 children)

I'm a sole trader, Stone Mason, I make enough to buy a used vehicle, but not new. Know what I would love? A light duty truck, no crew cab road princess bullshit, two seats in front, maybe a single half door passenger side for putting stuff behind the seats, and a properly sized bed. There's no such thing on the used market. There's absolutely uses for small trucks for trades folk. Back in Canada I had an older Ford Ranger, from when they were a rebadged Mitsubishi B3200. I would step over my dying gran for something like that here in the UK. The new Rangers are a fucking joke, FWD, crew cab standard, and they're the size of the old F-150s, completely unusable in the UK. I'm thinking about maybe importing a Japanese Kei Truck. There's some larger ones that are smaller than an old Ranger, but big enough for what I need....and they look cool AF.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

This metal blob goes against so many safety regulations in Europe, it is basically unfixable. And even then you would need a truckers licence to drive it, like the ones for big commercial trucks.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Well for obvious reasons. But also bcs their product is crap quality. My neighbour keeps on pouring grand after grand for stupid repairs into his model S

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

That can't be, teslas never break and don't need maintenance. Many people said it, smart people

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I'm not going to sell a perfectly useable Model Y after a year just because the CEO is a cunt. But I'm going to tell everyone that he's a cunt with 30 stickers plastered all over the useless rear window

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Sell it to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?

Good choice, no point throwing it away if it was too late for you to realize, but it's more powerful as a platform to disavow Musk and Tesla.

The US is collapsing and all I got was this lousy car

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Fair point. I won’t judge Tesla drivers. I’ll judge Tesla drivers that don’t have a load of stickers on their car.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I remember headlines of people burning their Nikes when they learned the company was woke or something. Burn your car mate, that'll show them for sure!

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Turns out that siding against voters interested in human sustainability, and pro oil extortionist conservatives bent on climate and human destruction is not a good EV marketing strategy. I have an MBA... AMA

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Also doing a nazi salute in front of thousands of people with full blown media coverage.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

Elon Musk should have his wealth forcefully redistributed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Quick Elon, sue every EU citizen for not buying your car!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

Well, I did Nazi that coming

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

I thought the Powerball and may even some solar stuff they were doing would suit our needs. The last few years quickly removed any such notion from my mind; not touching anything tied to that nazi manbaby

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe Musk should sue them...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Elon gonna start sueing the EU for not buying his cars

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The TSLA crash going to be glorious, can't wait.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Tesla doesn't deserve to tarnish the great inventor's name. Elon more specifically. But who knows, possibly the company's management team are all mini Elons. The workers they are not at fault.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Workers are desperate for a union if anything they're the good guys too

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

As usual, in the end the workers will pay and the owner(s) will walk away slightly less incredibly wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sure am glad all the car companies decided to use the Tesla charger as the standard. /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's an open standard now, it doesn't really matter that Tesla was the first. So it's a good thing, kind of like iPhones switching to "Android charging cables".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

May every business that brings this man profit tank until he learns some empathy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Rich people don't have human emotions.

Being rich literally turns you into a sociopath or psycopath.

Hoarding that much excess wealth induces mental disorders.

The only solution is to redistribute their wealth

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Doing a from-heart-to-sun salute tends to hurt sales in UK and Germany, who woulda thought. The stereotype about French is that they don't care and might even like it, but maybe this is also about build and design quality.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

You may want to read the text before commenting nonsense, the French are not pleased either.

| Sales are crashing in France, Germany, and the UK [...] In France, sales of new Teslas fell by 63 percent

I don't see what justify your attack, it seems unnecessary to attack people based on their nationality. Yes, we do have a far-right issue in France, but it's pretty much the same as everywhere else in Europe and there is still a resisting left here, not all hope is lost. Also, regarding your comment below, the white flag stereotype for France comes from 2003, when the US and allies invaded and destroyed Irak, but for once France stood against the US imperialism.___

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Their news cars are more expensive and more weird than the old ones, while the competition has been catching up, so it might be that, too...

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