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Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces decline

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65 points doener | 1 comments | 23 Sep 25 10:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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rmu09 ◴[23 Sep 25 11:57 UTC] No.45345721[source]▶
US made cars had the reputation of being low quality, too big, too heavy and too inefficient for european cities.

Tesla was somewhat different. People bought Teslas not for their promised "self driving" capabilities (I know no Tesla driver that took those promises at face value or got the FSD option FWIW), but one motivation was to "stick it" to snobbish arrogant european manufacturers wanting to develop "clean" ICEs with "green fuels" or other non-sensical crimes against thermodynamics like H2-cars.

Now, Tesla (and the US in general) has a brand toxicity problem, and it is worsening. People I know that would consider a Tesla some years ago now drive electric VWs or BWMs or KIAs, often times much more expensive cars than the comparable Tesla 3 / Y model.

This trend will probably continue the next years, and I don't see a way for Tesla to repair the brand image.

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estearum ◴[23 Sep 25 12:02 UTC] No.45345771[source]▶
For what it's worth, Tesla is by a gigantic margin the lowest quality-for-dollar American vehicle you can buy. The EV thing was unique until it wasn't.
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potato3732842 ◴[23 Sep 25 12:08 UTC] No.45345837[source]▶
All the manufacturers are closer together in pretty much every attribute than car-illiterate internet fanboys and haters make it out to be.
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1. estearum ◴[23 Sep 25 12:16 UTC] No.45345930[source]▶
You don't need to be car literate to know that a $90,000 Tesla interior feels on par with a bottom of the line Nissan Sentra. I'm not sure you can even buy another American-made car that feels so cheap? Curious if people have an idea of what American make/model feels worse to sit in.