Summary

  • Volkswagen beat Tesla in European EV sales across the first three months of 2025, data shows.
  • Registrations for VW EVs are up more than 150%, while Tesla lost huge ground.
  • However, the Model Y and Model 3 remain Europe’s top two most-registered EVs.
  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    “They’re much cheaper than comparable cars!”

    People never think about where the savings come from, as long as they can buy stuff.

    Seeing people who call themselves left wing defending globalism will always be funny to people like me who are left wing and were protesting against it back in the day.

    • Don_alForno@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      On the other hand, the right in America is in the process of destroying globalism and is rightly mocked for it because they themselves are suffering the worst.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        The issue is the way they’re trying to put an end to it. A plan like the government giving priority to local manufacturers and forcing international bidders to build factories in the country is one thing. Imposing tariffs without any plans to compensate locally is just plain dumb.

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          23 hours ago

          And yet they’re not just going about it the most boneheaded way they can think of, but have been actively killing off Biden era incentives to do what they claim they want.

          If they actually cared about manufacturing locally, they would support those incentives, and support the infrastructure bill