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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] 6 points 40 minutes ago

Well, I did Nazi that coming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 28 minutes ago

Maybe Musk should sue them...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

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] 12 points 2 hours ago (3 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] 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour 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] 10 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 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] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

White-flag secretly-fascist Vichy one

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] humanspiral 40 points 10 hours 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] 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

WWII might be a distant memory for Americans, but most of Europeans have been to historical sites of Jewish genocide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm still friends with my ex, who's American (as I am), but it's far from a distant memory for her. 90% of her extended family on her mother's side died in Auschwitz. Nearly as many on her father's side were murdered too,

[–] [email protected] 58 points 13 hours ago (7 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] 23 points 12 hours ago (6 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] 1 points 22 minutes ago

Mate my wife dresses me but categorising me with them POS trucks is just too far.

[–] Sturgist 4 points 2 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 55 minutes ago

A family member's a brickie. He ran an LDV Pilot for few years, until it died, and it was useful (piece of shit, but pretty reliable, and cheap to fix when it did break) while it lasted. But newer trucks and small vans aren't nearly as suitable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Let's see how big of a mouth you run when i pull up in my ranger plastered with punisher skulls you beta 😎😎 ~jkdon'tbullymepls~

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

Anyone still driving a Tesla needs a bit of verbal abuse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Tesla ownership is its own punishment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Sure, I'd judge someone if they bought a new one recently as well, but I think you're being a bit unreasonable. Not everyone can afford to switch cars.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe they just like the car. Not everything has to be political. Especially if they get it 2nd hand, the depreciation is huge. So someone could get a nice Tesla for great money. Doesn't mean they like Elon or support him.

Buying 2nd hand is greener and doesn't support him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

When the owner is that political, it becomes political though. “If 9 people sit at a table with one Nazi…” etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

It does though, their most profitable (as in profit margin) businesses areas are the subscription based services and charging.

https://www.energyandcapital.com/tesla-fsd/#%3A%7E%3Atext=This+would+result+in+approximately%2Ca+year+from+charging+services.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know about abuse but I do judge people with Teslas purchased in the last 5 years. Before that the completion was lacking and it was less evident to most people that the CEO is a cunt, but now even if you ignore Elon, it’s just a crazy purchase when all the other manufacturers have caught up in electric and arguably produce better vehicles with less issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'd be interested to see some market analysis that looks into the reasons for the sales declines. In particular, how much is driven by poor product quality versus how much is due to Musk being a knobhead.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 14 hours ago

This sparks joy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

Is the manbaby gonna sue every European for not buying his shitass cars now?

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