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Europeans still aren’t buying Teslas with figures out Wednesday showing sales plunged for a fifth month in a row in May, a blow to investors who had hoped anger toward Elon Musk would have faded by now.
Tesla sales fell 28% last month in 30 European countries even as the overall market for electric vehicles expanded sharply, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. The poor showing comes after Tesla’s billionaire CEO had promised a “major rebound” was coming last month, adding to a recent buying frenzy among investors.
They were selling on Wednesday, pushing the prices down more than 4% in early afternoon trading.
Even fucking goldfish remember what he’s done. He has irreversibly associated Nazism with Tesla at the same time that cheaper and better electric vehicles are coming out of China. The only way is down and that’s not going to change until he is no longer part of Tesla and a lot of time has passed.
And that’s saying something.
There is precedent for a car brand started by a Nazi successfully shaking that image eventually
Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?
Dunno, wasn’t born yet 🤷
From the wiki, and I’m simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month. In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.
So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.
The German government sold 60% of the company in 1960. So another 12 years.
And at these times, they could claim “Nazism is dead”. The issue with Musk and Tesla is nazis are not going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe they should hire VW’s CEO, actually. He managed to get the brand past the diesel-gate.
So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that’s what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.
I doubt Elon will go to jail for being an asshole. Tesla may get in troubles for the promises of unsupervised FSD, but that’s not the issue here.
I was more thinking about the brand’s reputation recovery.
Yeah, that actually might work
Of course, Elon would have to be rid of his Tesla shares also
Eve if he suddenly no longer had influence over Tesla, he’s ruined their reputation enough that others have had time to catch up and make better vehicles.
Cheaper and better EVs are here from lots of European, Korean, and (to a lesser degree) American brands.
It’s been a long time since was “the only choice”.