Tesla’s Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low
Tesla’s Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low
(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. got off to a sluggish start to the second quarter in Europe, where Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was expecting a much better showing than the first few months of the year.Most Read from BloombergThese Flight Routes Suffer the World’s Worst TurbulenceOne Dead After Singa...
High interest rate,
Competition starts to offer decent electric car
People who can afford a fancy car already got one
Musk behaves like a fascists
Not a surprise
Also antagonizing the local populace by making backroom doors to bypass restrictions for their factory in germany.
Given how high fascist parties like AfD, RN and the Brothers Of Italy are riding in the polls, you’d expect some of the glow to rub off on Tesla and boost their sales, but Musk doesn’t even have the soft skills to pull that off.
The real fascists don't want to drive electric, and their voters usually can't afford them.
The people that agree with Musk, think climate change is fake and that if it were real electric cars would polute more than ice cars.
I think it's Musk's behaviour that is the most off-putting to potential buyers. That idiot really needs to be replaced, otherwise the company will fail.
Yeah agreed but the board are sycophants, so he’s not going anywhere. Tesla will fail, by recent events much quicker than people may have expected.
It’s a shame, but their management went bad. It happens. A lot, really.
Teslas are badly made, with good specs. The issue is that you can buy a well made EV with similar specs for less nowadays. Musk doing what he does, does not help. The smart move for businessmen is to stay out of politics as long as it does not effect them.
The only edge Tesla has is the software stack. All the rest is meh. But it is kind of amazing that traditional carmakers are still struggling to catch up on the software front. To be honest, the whole auto industry is heading in a very bad direction, where they think of the car as a way to harvest data of their customers and to introduce their SaaS offerings
We've got an Tesla and an Volkswagen ID3. Tesla's charging planning is pretty good. Volkswagen's driving assistants are vastly superior to Tesla's (despite not being oversold as "autonomous driving").
IIRC, the first robotaxis are operated by companies owned by Google and General Motors, and the only car that has a licence for fully autonomous driving in Germany (up to 60 km/h, only on Autobahn) is a Mercedes.
No, Tesla's autonomous driving is not cutting edge.
Honestly I'm pretty happy with the software stack in my Volvo. But then again it's basically stock Android.