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.

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    11 hours ago

    Please don’t call for the destruction of property of total strangers, that’s very disrespectful.

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      4 hours ago

      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

      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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        4 hours ago

        Can you point to where they called for the destruction of property?

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          4 hours ago

          “Torched cars”

          Or are we pretending this now means something else?

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            3 hours ago

            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.