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[โ€“] alehel@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

And the numbers in Norway shot back up with the arrival of the new model Y. Turns out people were just waiting for the new model.

Model Y is now the most sold car in Norway so far this year and the model 3 is up 300% compared to the same time frame last year (Jan->March).

Curious if something similar happened in other European countries.

Source: https://www.finansavisen.no/industri/2025/03/24/8252052/tesla-tilbake-pa-salgstoppen-i-norge

[โ€“] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Italy and the uk need to step it up

[โ€“] Inucune@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day 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 1 day 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€“] projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm ashamed of the UK and Italy.

Not so long ago it was up in the U.K., so this is a start.

[โ€“] nednobbins@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

No shame.

I view it as a friendly competition between Europeans. Right now, Spain is in the lead. UK and Italy are trailing but they're still racing in the right direction. I'm cheering for them to catch up.

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

UK and Italy are evidently full of bastards.

[โ€“] Perish@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] Elkot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No they're right, we're bastards

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

Bloody bastards even.

[โ€“] Perish@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

Don't worry, I wasn't disputing that.

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

Thatโ€™s not how percentages work.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day 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.

Not sure about figures but thereโ€™s plenty on UK roads.

Average .ee user

Why are the rich so stupid? Just pretend you care about human rights and your sales go up. It's so simple. Why can't they even put up the facade of being a normal person?

[โ€“] witten@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was the last era. Now we're in a masks-off gilded age where the ultrarich think they can do it all out in the open.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So far the American Ultra-rich have been doing well when they didn't get Luigi'd.

[โ€“] witten@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, the word "think" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in my statement there...

[โ€“] sinnsykfinbart@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] letzlo@feddit.nl 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] argai@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago
[โ€“] danc4498@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (4 children)

In gonna need England and Italy to pump them numbers up.

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

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

That's not how percentages work, doofus.

[โ€“] Damage@feddit.it 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We weren't buying them from the start.

Italy poor.

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that supposed to be a lot?

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For the first two months 19,046 Teslas were sold in the EU. So per capita sales are a bit below average in EU terms.

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

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

[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

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

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

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[โ€“] Litebit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why is Felon Musk not getting fired for poor performance.

From the government? Because he bought it.

From Tesla? Because he is the largest individual stockholder.

[โ€“] witten@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

And the board is made up of his toadies.

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

Related:

The Growing Tesla Takedown Protest This Weekend & Next Weekend

In Europe:

Globally:

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

[โ€“] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Consistent declines for all 3 months of 2025, yoy.

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

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

[โ€“] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

You love to see it

[โ€“] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I was boycotting tesla before it was cool. Stinky stinky cars.

[โ€“] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days 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?

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[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 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

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