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

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65 points doener | 2 comments | 23 Sep 25 10:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.487s | source
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m101 ◴[23 Sep 25 12:00 UTC] No.45345745[source]▶
Electric car sales were 20% of all sales, so 26% increase is hardly a "surge". Going from a low base this is supposed to be higher.

I think what we are seeing is that electric car interest isn't as strong as governments hoped for. I used to own an electric car now I'm back to a hybrid.

Q4 sales in the US will be interesting because of the removal of the tax credits and the increasing electricity prices that AI is causing. Low prices of fuel in the US means that it's not exactly cheaper to run an electric car in the US.

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maelito ◴[23 Sep 25 12:08 UTC] No.45345832[source]▶
> I think what we are seeing is that electric car interest isn't as strong as governments hoped for. I used to own an electric car now I'm back to a hybrid.

In France, there is a wide anti-electric campaign. From the "leftist-green" media such as Reporterre, to the right wing ones.

Same for political parties, from the left PCF to the right RN.

It's a battle.

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1. orwin ◴[23 Sep 25 12:26 UTC] No.45346053[source]▶
The PCF is arguing for development and of a subsidized Kei-like electric car (basically a 10k€ EV), and a retraining of car manufacturing workers before any punitive incentive (ZFE, carbon tax on car fuel). This is hardly anti-electric.

I don't know about reporterre though, I've heard of them but I don't think they really have any influence on anyone other than Greenpeace afficionados.

Also? The R5 is great, and I bet the backlog is really long.

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2. maelito ◴[23 Sep 25 15:49 UTC] No.45348722[source]▶
The PCF was strongly against the interdiction of new thermal car sales in 2035. This is the kind of struggle that will kill small electric cars business opportunities.

Even the "punitive" vocabulary is political and mostly comes from right-wind politicians.

Yes the R5 is great and way cheaper than the mean car price.