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Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe

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152 points doener | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 21:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.575s | source
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saubeidl[dead post] ◴[29 Jun 25 22:09 UTC] No.44416966[source]▶
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LeoPanthera ◴[29 Jun 25 22:13 UTC] No.44416999[source]▶
It would be interesting to see if the brand could be recovered if Elon left. I have to imagine a significant fraction of anyone still working there is still there because they're politically aligned with Elon, so, it might be difficult.
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saubeidl ◴[29 Jun 25 22:15 UTC] No.44417025[source]▶
I think now that VW and Renault have their own very attractive options and the US is acting more and more hostile, even if Tesla was purged from Elon loyalists, why would anyone buy American if they can buy European?
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influx ◴[29 Jun 25 22:22 UTC] No.44417085[source]▶
Remind me who created VW again? Seems like that brand is rehabilitated...
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1. whyenot ◴[29 Jun 25 22:49 UTC] No.44417335[source]▶
Ferdinand Prosche. Oh you mean the association with the Nazis, like Henry Ford?
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2. FredPret ◴[30 Jun 25 15:01 UTC] No.44424195[source]▶
You must be joking.

Yes, Henry Ford had Nazi sympathies. But VW was literally founded by the Nazis:

> "Volkswagen was established in 1937 by the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront) as part of the Strength Through Joy (German: Kraft durch Freude) program in Berlin" [0]

> "The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, pronounced [ˌdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaʁbaɪtsfʁɔnt]; DAF) was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung or Nazification." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#:~:text=1932–1944:%...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front

Besides, both Mercedes (as Daimler-Benz) and BMW made Nazi tanks during that time.

All those brands are now squeaky-clean.