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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

Difference in registration between January 2024 and January 2025.

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[โ€“] danc4498@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Iโ€™m gonna need England and Italy to pump them numbers up.

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Italy the percentage is low because not many Teslas are sold anyway

That's not how percentages work, doofus.

[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I believe it is to do with the difference in the starting number of registrations but would need to see the data broken down.

[โ€“] Damage@feddit.it 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We weren't buying them from the start.

Italy poor.

[โ€“] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm poor.
That's my reason for not buying a Tesla, though.

[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Did you a word, or would you buy one of you had money?

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[โ€“] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 months ago

Related:

The Growing Tesla Takedown Protest This Weekend & Next Weekend

In Europe:

Globally:

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

[โ€“] kreskin@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

UK and Italy are evidently full of bastards.

[โ€“] Perish@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Or weren't buying many to begin with ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Elkot@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No they're right, we're bastards

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Bloody bastards even.

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[โ€“] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thatโ€™s not how percentages work.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

It's not, but there's probably another proportion of the overall community that are "I like Musk and I have money, so I'm going to buy a car". That number isn't related to the previous number of sales, so if sales are already low that "arsehole" number would become more significant.

It's a made up example, but just saying there may be ways in which the sales won't drop below an absolute number.

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[โ€“] Litebit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

why is Felon Musk not getting fired for poor performance.

[โ€“] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve heard from Germany but are there any articles about Spain? Spain seems to hate musk in particular, me gusta

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[โ€“] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is interesting! Spain and Portugal had in fact a slight rise where others had drops, just a few weeks ago in similar illustrations, but are now among the biggest drops. How can that be?

[โ€“] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

I make a point of never trusting internet information until I personally verify it. Particularly these maps, which are nearly always incorrect or misleading. The internet is full of worthless information. Mining for diamonds is the only means of finding anything even bordering on worthwhile in this garbage pit filled with AI, spam, and propagandists.

[โ€“] j4yt33@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Different time frames. I think the illustrations where registrations/sales were up was for a time span of two months or so, but overall they're still down if you look at the time shown on this map

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[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Interestingly, I do not see quite a bit of European countries, including Poland, Czechia, etc

Feels like either an attempt of manipulation, or lack of research

[โ€“] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you do speak Czech, Polish etcetera then maybe you can find those numbers. It's not easy for someone who doesn't.

[โ€“] IMALlama@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

This is the second result for me when I used this duck duck go query

In January 2025, according to PZPM data, 1,121 new electric vehicles were registered in Poland, which is 0.4% more than a year earlier. In January, against the background of a calm in the market, Tesla showed an impressive decrease in car shipments to customers - by 48.8% to just 103 units. For comparison, in 2024, about 4,500 new Teslas were registered, which gave the American brand almost a 27% share in the Polish market of new electric passenger cars. In January 2025, this share decreased to 9.2%.

[โ€“] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I doubt those are huge markets for premium cars, but also I imagine the car market in Czechia is just overwhelmingly dominated by Skoda.

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[โ€“] Inucune@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Elon, but I am starting to feel bad for the guys who just wanted to make an electric car. They didn't deserve to get wrapped up in this monkey's paw. I hope they got out while they could.

[โ€“] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Ive heard literally 0 shit being flung at the people who work at Tesla. This is the first time I even considered whether this was bad for them.

They likely are losing money though since I think part of their pay is in stock. The stock is overvalued though still.

I dont know, if I worked for Tesla I'd probably consider this a wash.

[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

If you're having doubts about how much this movement is working, remember this chart. Keep the boycott going!

[โ€“] sinnsykfinbart@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

These numbers are outdated, Tesla are back at the top of sales for March in Norway. Such a shame

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[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

You gonna have to pump those numbers down, those are rookie numbers.

[โ€“] projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm ashamed of the UK and Italy.

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France and Spain FTW

[โ€“] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Italy and the uk need to step it up

[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I won't cry for Musk, quite the contrary... But I also don't know how important the EU as a market is for Tesla?

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[โ€“] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

You love to see it

Dataisbeautiful

Thatโ€™s just January, just when fElon was just getting started.

[โ€“] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Why are only some countries included? Did it go up in the other ones?

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