Tesla has faced a similar slide in sales elsewhere in Europe as people protest against CEO Musk.
Autos trade group Mobility Sweden said new vehicle registrations of Tesla models were down 80.7% in April amid a backlash against the political activity of CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla registrations were 203 in April, down from 1,052 a year before.
It was one of the worst-performing automakers for the month in the Nordic country, and sat in contrast to an overall 11% rise in new passenger vehicle registrations to 24,292.
Polestar Automotive, a Swedish electric automaker and one of Tesla's competitors, saw its sales hit 535 in April, an 11.5% increase.
At this point, my grudge is with the entire board and any investors who didn’t sell their shares when they were over $400 and the CEO was tweeting hate speech and throwing Nazi salutes. Elon can walk away or stay, I don’t care. If you hold Tesla stock, you are either a Nazi or ok with Nazis. I will never pass a Tesla without spitting on it.
It's still the most overvalued stock on the US ticker and it's not even close.
Even in the most charitable reading of the future, Tesla chooses a responsible leader, successfully course-corrects, and becomes "just a car company." The techbro futurist hype goes away, and the value tanks back to reality.
hey if they leaked it to see the reaction and it was good, perhaps that’ll seal the deal that they dump musk
… then we continue not to support tesla for all the same reasons because simply kicking him to the curb doesn’t solve any of those issues but now he’s also been fired
the entire stock market is a made up imaginary scam that all of our companies have forced us to care about by eliminating pension funds as a retirement avenue. i mean. the entire monetary system, but the stock market especially
The story of Elon will be a phenomenal one. Icarus af. He could have ended world hunger and much more, but decided to become a nazi cunt and ruin everything. Money can't buy intelligence.
Yeah, I think the union thing and the latest nazi salute form exactly the kind of combination Sweden won’t forgive easily. Tesla’s reputation is completely gone.
I have literally since they were released wanted a Tesla…right up until he decided to start this right wing bullshit.
I have for a few years now said if in 2015 he decided to become a recluse and just revel in his companies grandeur he might be the next Edison or maybe more accurately Ford. Possibly Hughes.
Now we are aware of how much of a petulant, unfunny child this dickhead is. He and his reputation is ruined.
I was going to buy a Tesla in 2021, the only reason I didn't was I needed a car immediately and they had a several month waiting list. If it had been available, I would've taken it. Even test drove one. Now, I will never buy a Tesla. I would rather have a Rivian anyway.
I even bought LOL-GAS personalized plates, in anticipation of buying a Tesla, but that aint happening now. I still have the plates, though, so maybe one day they'll adorn a Chinese EV...
I can't believe it will last. Bubble has to pop. International sales in the toilet, Cybertruck failing, domestic sales down, supply chains in shock from tariff chaos, and on top of it all, it's PE ratio makes no sense compared to all other manufacturers.
The entire stock price is based on nothing but Elon Musk and the world is starting to look at him as an idiot.
I don't know what makes it the best to you, I personally hate it here and the people/society is pretty selfish and apathetic, so generally not healthy.
Apathetic in the large scale, but very warm and friendly at the smaller one.
I lived in the American South, I find this to be much more to my liking as the smiling faces seem less likely to be covering deep, hateful racism looking for an excuse to resort to violence.
Tesla has and is doing exactly what Musk said the goal was for Tesla, long ago. To spur EV sales for other competitors, since Tesla could never meet a full market demand. Congrats Elon, you not only did that, you've backed away to give everyone a bigger share of the market. You genius.
Oh, what? You didn't mean to do this? Are those tears? Be a big boy and suck it up.
My biggest issue with BYD would be maintenance in my location. I got dealers for American, Japanese, but nothing for anything Chinese. My normal independent shop I use doesn't want to touch our hybrid either.
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You do know that Scandinavia has a very high PHEV quota, right? Sure, would have liked to see this news coming from Norway, but this is still very much relevant.