Posted on 03/07/2025 4:23:13 AM PST by Cronos
...According to a new report on Wednesday, sales in Europe continue to decline. For example, Tesla has seen a sales decline of 76 percent in Germany. In February 2025, Tesla only delivered 1,429 new vehicles in Germany, compared to more than 6,000 in February 2024. This data is especially concerning for Tesla, as Germany is Europe's largest EV market. Musk recently backed Germany's far-right AfD party in the country's recent elections.
According to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA), Tesla vehicle registrations across the EU, including the UK, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, fell by 45 percent from January 2024 to January 2025. It's not just Europe, either.
Tesla sales in Australia fell by nearly 72 percent in February. The company only sold 1,592 vehicles last month compared to the 5,665 it sold the previous year.
It appears that Tesla sales are slumping in the U.S., too. According to the California New Car Dealers Association, Tesla registered fewer cars in the state in all four quarters of 2024. California is the largest EV market in the U.S. Tesla sales fell by 8 percent in the fourth quarter and 12 percent for the whole year.
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EV sales have fallen flat over the last couple of years. EV sales account for about 10% of all new car sales nation wide. Auto makers were/are hoping for exponential growth. It is just not happening..
BEFORE YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A HYUNDAI PRODUCT:
THEIR EV BATTERY FACILITY WAS RAIDED===100 VENEZUALANS WERE CARTED OUT BY ICE-—ALL ILLEGALS==80% of the employees at that facility.
YOU WANT THAT KIND OF SKILL????
If he had introduced a very nice and efficient hybrid to start off with at a reasonable price some of us could have given Musk a hand!
Hoppy too hep!!!
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Reminds me of the Twitter drama when Musk purchased it.
My $$ is on Musk.
I’ll wait a while.
Then buy.”
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Twitter was worth $44 billion when Musk bought it. It’s worth $20 billion today.
I’ll be waiting a while longer.
Monorail sales eventually go down....
The Simpsons - Monorail Disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G8WoE17hC4
The design is generally dictated by aerodynamics which accounts of the "bar of soap" look that car makers - thanks to EPA mileage dictates - have almost uniformly adopted.
They should turn the job of designing over to AI:
The SUV on the right gives off a Power Wagon vibe.
People like to believe that, but take a look at some pictures of parking lots from virtually every era, and you will see the same degree of uniformity of design as you see today. For example...
Part of his business is selling carbon credits to non EV automakers or automakers that don't produce enough EVs, etc. The plugin hybrids(PHEV) are less popular than the all electrics(BEV)
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