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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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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 32 minutes ago

No one wants to drive a swasticar.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 minutes ago

Quick Elon, sue every EU citizen for not buying your car!

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

Elon gonna start sueing the EU for not buying his cars

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sure am glad all the car companies decided to use the Tesla charger as the standard. /s

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's an open standard now, it doesn't really matter that Tesla was the first. So it's a good thing, kind of like iPhones switching to "Android charging cables".

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Tesla doesn't deserve to tarnish the great inventor's name. Elon more specifically. But who knows, possibly the company's management team are all mini Elons. The workers they are not at fault.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago

Workers are desperate for a union if anything they're the good guys too

[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 hours ago

At this point, they became homonyms. Nothing more.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago

Elon Musk should have his wealth forcefully redistributed

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jayve@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Europeans don't want to drive a Swasticar? Why? Did something happen to make them dislike Nazis for some reason?

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks at my VW

*Erika intensifies*

[–] Bdtrngl@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

At least the current vw CEO isn't openly a Nazi and they make good cars; unlike muskrat and his swasticars.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I wouldn't fuck with VW after their "eco-diesel" bullshit from a decade or two ago. But I would probably still prefer them to Tesla if they were the only two car companies.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 20 hours ago

Their news cars are more expensive and more weird than the old ones, while the competition has been catching up, so it might be that, too...

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago
[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

Nearest repair center is 2 hours away

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 16 points 1 day ago

That can't be, teslas never break and don't need maintenance. Many people said it, smart people

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago

I thought the Powerball and may even some solar stuff they were doing would suit our needs. The last few years quickly removed any such notion from my mind; not touching anything tied to that nazi manbaby

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 27 points 1 day ago

Well, I did Nazi that coming

[–] Venetas@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 day ago (7 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

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day 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

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[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe Musk should sue them...

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[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Read that Tesla pushes December in Norway for padding end of year numbers, resulting in a stagnant January. I think that concutive stagnant months is what would indicate how sick we are with Musk

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