In case you needed cheering up: Tesla sales kept sliding across Europe’s biggest electric-car markets in April, despite the company rolling out an updated version of its most popular vehicle. - Bloomberg - ThreadSky

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nickhedley.bsky.social • 42 days ago

In case you needed cheering up:

Tesla sales kept sliding across Europe’s biggest electric-car markets in April, despite the company rolling out an updated version of its most popular vehicle. - Bloomberg

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douglasurner.bsky.social•42 days ago

Heh, way to go UK! Glad to see the numbers heading in the right direction.

Apparently in the UK vehicles are registered as soon as the dealer gets them, so for a while it was hard to tell what was happening in the UK.

douglasurner.bsky.social•42 days ago

The Model Y refresh may be part of the problem. It takes staying cues from the CyberTruck (which is bad enough) making it clearly a "post-DOGE" model. So there is no change of plausible deniability now - you can't just slap a bumper sticker on it & claim you bought it when Teslas were virtuous.

douglasurner.bsky.social•42 days ago

Ack: s/styling/staying/

expansive.bsky.social•42 days ago

In the mean time, VW just produced its 1 millionth EV. Tesla went from darling EV pioneer to the electric third rail that no one wants to touch in an Elon minute. I say this as a long time Tesla owner - I’ll never buy another Tesla so long as Elon has any association with the company.