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.
To put this into perspective, there were 207640 new cars registered in January, of which 1277 were Teslas. That’s a measly 0.62 percent of total new car registrations.
True, but it could be 0%. Or better yet, -100% (count torched cars on there)
Please don’t call for the destruction of property of total strangers, that’s very disrespectful.
You don’t have to light a swasticar on fire, they do that themselves.
This place is just fucked, they’re all for damaging teslas and hurting people because they can’t reach Elon. Elon personally built those cars and gave them away for free, didn’t you know??
I bet same people here foamed at their mouths over stop oil protestors. This place is just more extremists version of reddit
Can you point to where they called for the destruction of property?
“Torched cars”
Or are we pretending this now means something else?
Yes. They catch fire themselves and we say they torched themselves.
Fun thing about English is that the rest of the sentence can change meanings of words.