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[–] Frostbeard 7 points 4 hours ago

Not to trow sand in the gears, but let's wait until the numbers after the launch of the new model Y comes in. Some buyers might waiting for that one.

[–] UltraMagnus0001 7 points 5 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Cyber trucks were banned for sale in the UK, so maybe they have less far to fall? Also good on them for banning those mobile dumpsters in the first place!

[–] DicJacobus 27 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I dont think people grasp that he doesnt really care about tesla anymore, his shareholders are having a stroke, but he personally, has other sources of wealth that are more important to his megalomania now, namely starlink and spacex, and all the government subsidies that come from them.

at the end of the day, tesla is just a car company, and when you're a megalomaniac trying to design the entire world to your liking, thats small fry stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Yes, the new version of "nobility" that doesn't want to pay taxes. They make a company and then get government handouts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

That's why we need to elect someone who will get the ball rolling on jailing Musk.

[–] ArchmageAzor 1 points 8 hours ago

Eutelsat is providing a Nazi-free alternative to Starlink, and NASA is being shut down and I doubt the ESA or CNSA will want to cooperate with SpaceX.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

Your post has been removed for promoting violence /s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

These guys want to be like Russia and other 'strong men' led countries so bad, let them have a Russian economy, and the same worldwide product 'dominance' as Russia too.

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

Damn, dude! The Lada was shit, but it wasn't a Tesla!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Sorry, who are “these guys” you’re referring to?

I hope it’s not the 380 million Americans who absolutely did not elect the white foreign colonizer to gut our economy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago

The EV market is crashing. If you exclude Tesla from the figures, the EV market is up 13%.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Let's go!!! Spain first, love it 😂

[–] manualoverride 53 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Hey UK!

Can we just try not to be last for once, please?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

But how else would us red, white, and blue headed step-children know how to make you somehow look better in comparison?

[–] Elkot 9 points 14 hours ago

Being last is what we do best

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

One of the issues with these percentage stats is that we were not as big of purchasers of Tesla as the rest of Europe so it's going to be harder for us to have as large of drops.

If you look, France has dropped that much just to catch up with us.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Even before the others dropped you were 3rd most out of 8.

Now you're 1st most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tesla-sales-by-country

Germany still has higher sales than us, and we aren't much higher than France, but I'm not trying to make excuses just pointing out that percent comparisons aren't great. I think we could all do better in getting Tesla sales down to zero.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The graph is missing headers so not sure, but UK’s numbers are highest here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yep, the screenshot of a clipped screenshot is pretty bad. I agree.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tesla-sales-by-country

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If you look, France has dropped that much just to catch up with us.

Swer n me mum. You brits cant get through a day without a dig at a frenchie, do ya?

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

Why the Jamacian accent?

[–] IndiBrony 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part. I can't afford a Swasticar anyway.

I can afford a bunch of Nazi stickers, though!

[–] manualoverride 2 points 10 hours ago

I’m thinking about putting a kit together to leave under windscreen wipers…

Option 1: dental floss to remove the Tesla badge. Option 2: a swastika sticker to put next to the Tesla badge.

That way we will know for certain if they are Nazis or not.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I find it funny how Europeans have organised a more cohesive anti trump movement than Americans have. Truly no county has more of a boot lickjng culture than the "land of the free"

[–] Allonzee 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I say this as an American.

You're all better than us, a lot of people here voted for the Trump, and most of us are so successfully deluded by oligarch propaganda that many blame our powerless, homeless neighbors that we abandoned and betrayed for what the owners inflict on us.

We are gaslit beyond all hope. We can't even agree as a society that our children should be fed, and this madness of greed and demented levels of toxic individualism didn't start with Trump. It boggles my mind that people have actually wanted to immigrate here in my 40 years living inside this cesspool, only good at being an exporter of death and state mandated avarice.

Unless you're wealthy, or are sociopathic enough to become so because sociopathy is what we reward, this is a garbage place of largely garbage people. Most here would rather burn ourselves and the world than disempower our capitalists, as that would be "socialism," a word our captured government rebranded as a boogieman and that, by design, most Americans couldn't actually define with access to one of our underfunded libraries and a gun to their head.

[–] thermal_shock 3 points 13 hours ago

Agree. It's the basic shit that defines the GOP as inhumane, like fighting tooth and nail to take what little low income families get from the government because you once saw a guy try to use his EBT card to get something non essential.

And fighting to take food away from children, literally, who have no say in what happens anyway. Fuck the GOP.

[–] Huschke 1 points 13 hours ago

The biggest difference is that European countries have parliamentary democracies. This means that everyone has a party that, at least to some degree, fits their needs and wants. I’m sure that if Americans realistically had more than two choices, things would be different.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Excellent. Fuck Musk and all his companies. Biggest leech on the planet. He didn’t make his money, he stole it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

His entire life, since the day he was born, has been built entirely on exploitation.

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[–] ieatpwns 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Keep going guys I love jerking off to Elons tears

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anna needs to learn the difference between a total and an average

[–] Krelis_ 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I know what you saying but the average would be adding those percentages together and dividing by the number of countries listed, which is -44.7% and is not getting the total sales for each year across all countries and get that -47.7% shown as total and is a more meaningful number because those markets are different sizes

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the best way to strike back against Musk.

Hit his pocketbook. Tank his net worth.

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