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Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe

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152 points doener | 9 comments | 29 Jun 25 21:50 UTC | HN request time: 1.1s | source | bottom
1. dumbledoren ◴[29 Jun 25 22:41 UTC] No.44417265[source]▶
Europe is economically strained right now. Inflation has hit hard, with housing costs skyrocketing even in less expensive countries, and people are being gentrified out of their own cities. Its no time to be buying expensive vanity cars. People cant even buy normal cars right now.
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2. nemo44x ◴[29 Jun 25 23:07 UTC] No.44417453[source]▶
It’s odd to read the comments here, somehow getting into a long thread about nazi camps when the buried lede is that Europe is under tremendous financial stress and it’s not getting better. Losing ground for 20 years to USA and ascendant Asia where Tesla sells a ton of cars is a concern. Talk about boiled frogs.
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3. 123yawaworht456 ◴[29 Jun 25 23:50 UTC] No.44417713[source]▶
no matter how many events prove them to be laughably wrong, they keep deluding themselves into thinking that the values held in their extremely isolated bubbles are commonplace.

like yeah, sure bro, people see a $50K car and purse their lips because musk is le bad. just like they do about BMWs and Porsches, right?

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4. surgical_fire ◴[30 Jun 25 01:01 UTC] No.44418115[source]▶
That may be true, but fact is that car sales in Europe are up in the same period. EV sales in particular are also up. Only Tesla sales went down.
5. drivingmenuts ◴[30 Jun 25 04:29 UTC] No.44419387{3}[source]▶
Are BMW and Porsche actively encouraging neo-Nazi groups?
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6. rsynnott ◴[30 Jun 25 11:56 UTC] No.44422188[source]▶
I realise it is most improper to read the article on this here orange website, but:

> Overall, battery electric vehicle sales rose 25% in Europe compared to a year earlier

Come on, now.

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7. 123yawaworht456 ◴[30 Jun 25 13:47 UTC] No.44423225{4}[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Origin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#History

now, how many people give a fuck about any of that?

8. nemo44x ◴[01 Jul 25 01:05 UTC] No.44429563{3}[source]▶
Absolutely no context behind that. It’s meaningless in isolation.
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9. rsynnott ◴[01 Jul 25 08:19 UTC] No.44431757{4}[source]▶
I mean unless you think there’s something super-magical about Teslas that makes them extra-hard to buy relative to other cars…

VW ev sales are well up; they’re in broadly the same price category as Teslas, for now (their 20k car is delayed til next year).