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[–] Frostbeard 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Lots of other car manufacturers also have new models on the market in 2025.

Some buyers might want to get those.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Quick, somebody tell him that changing models from X to Y makes the cars trans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why? Are they eager to have their car set on fire?

Nobody should be buying a Tesla in 2025. It literally funds Nazis.

[–] brucethemoose 4 points 21 hours ago

OP is right, not everyone pays much attention to what’s going on, or doesn’t think much of it from their information sphere.

That being said, I wouldn’t expect good sales either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

what do these percentages mean? is that stock value?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

For most countries that are the percentages the numbers of new car registrations by brand went down compared to same month last year.

As these are published monthly by the respective countries we can get a glimpse at the new car sales for each brand. In Germany for example in February 25 there were 76% less new car registrations Tesla compared to February 24. Meaning there were 76% less new Tesla sold than a year before.

[–] brucethemoose 3 points 21 hours ago

Probably sales from the looks of the numbers, which is way more important.

It’s a bit dramatic though, as much of the drop is from competition.

[–] DicJacobus 28 points 1 day ago (4 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] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

well, sort of. see, the way money works at that scale, everything is about leveraging stuff.

and a lot of his stuff is leveraged off tesla stock. so it won't kill him, but it will at least make an example of him, and be a substantial hit to his assets. like, change the way he lives hit to his income.

edit: assuming the banks don't just slobber all over his dick giving him a pass and free money. which they may.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

uh, dude, there's no time for that. the next elections are YEARS away, for the process to START?

Whether you think elections matter or not, whether you think we're still getting real ones or not, we're so far past that point. they're fucking disappearing people, dude.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Your post has been removed for promoting violence /s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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] 4 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] UltraMagnus0001 5 points 1 day ago

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days 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 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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[–] manualoverride 57 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hey UK!

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

Now you're 1st most.

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

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

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[–] Elkot 9 points 1 day ago

Being last is what we do best

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] IndiBrony 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

I can afford a bunch of Nazi stickers, though!

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We never got rid of lead water service pipes to existing houses and have a fetish for old properties. A cautionary tale really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

also, isn't the drinking water all poop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

our regional monopoly water companies are world leaders in turning actual sewage (that they put there) into something that the average brit thinks of as potable water

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

im sure the americans will pay for that expertise soon enough.

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

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

that would explain it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is the best way to strike back against Musk.

Hit his pocketbook. Tank his net worth.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good. I hope he's angry about it. It would make me very happy.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

He is. And sad. But he says he doesn't understand where this hate comes from. Real genius, that guy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I still find it hilarious that he supposedly has a 165 IQ when everytime he opens his mouth he sounds so unintelligent and stumbles over words and uses meme language. I have never heard that man say a single intelligent thing in all the time I have known of his existence.

I wonder what Chinese bloke he hired to take his IQ test for him.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Krelis_ 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 3 points 1 day ago

Let's go!!! Spain first, love it 😂

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