The sales of vehicles made by Musk's Tesla fell sharply in the European Union in the first months of 2025.

Summary

Tesla’s EU vehicle sales dropped 49% in January and February 2025, with registrations falling to 19,046.

Analysts link the decline to Elon Musk’s political alignment with Trump and nationalist European parties, sparking backlash, including arson and vandalism at Tesla facilities.

Compounding issues, newer Chinese-made EVs are surpassing Tesla sales in Europe, with Tesla’s market share falling from 18.4% to 7.7% year-to-date.

  • jballsEnglish
    20·
    13 hours ago

    I keep seeing these numbers from Europe, but have yet to see North America numbers. I’m curious to see if sales are tanking in the US even harder.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        They haven’t released earnings yet. Elon will likely use accounting fuckery to make it look better than it is, but I guarantee its not good.

      • jballsEnglish
        18·
        13 hours ago

        I was referring to Tesla sales in the US, not just the stock price. I keep seeing how sales are down X% in Germany or Y% in the UK, but even during their last quarterly meeting, I don’t recall hearing anything about their US numbers.

          • tomatolung@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            5 hours ago

            Your caredge article gives context for actual numbers rather then percent. Tesla sells between 110-170k per quarter in the US. It’s down 11% in January in the US according to Business Insider. While still selling 35,000 more vehicles then Ford in that month.

            Where as Germany sold 1,429 Tesla vehicles in February, Australia sold 1,592, and France 2,395.

            So the scale of sales is vastly different. This is not to say it’s not having an impact, but to dig into a percentage or statistics. (Mind you I wouldn’t use percentage in this post, except I can’t find the month on month numbers without paying for it, so I’ll wait for it to come out in future reports.)

          • jballsEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            Thanks! Q4 numbers are a little down. I guess it’ll be the Q1 numbers that should be the most interesting.