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The U. S. electric car company’s sales are on the rise. UU. Se are slipping through Europe, amid what many see as interference in affairs through Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk.
By Melissa Eddy
Reports from Berlin
Tesla’s sales in Germany fell 59% in January, the month Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive and a close adviser to President Trump, chastised Germans for focusing too much on “past guilt” for Nazi-era crimes and suggested electorate to a nationalist party in the country’s general election.
As Musk intends to reduce the U. S. budget, he has been trying to reduce the U. S. budget. U. S. Through a move it calls the Government Efficiency Department, the EV company it runs has lost its share of the market across Europe.
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In Germany, Tesla’s only factory in Europe in Europe, only 1,277 new Tesla cars were registered for the month, the German Federal Motor Transport Authority reported on Wednesday. on a call for January.
Tesla fell 63% in France in January from a year earlier and to 12% in Britain, where Mr. Musk has provoked Prime Minister Keir Starmer with inflammatory social media posts.
Sweden, where the strike by a mechanic opposed to Tesla is now in full swing, saw a call for its 44% car slide last month, while sales in Norway fell 38%.
German buyers “may well be reacting to Musk’s comments” made at a right-wing election conference for German days ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as a gesture he made after Mr. Musk’s inauguration. Trump’s Trump, widely interpreted as a Nazi salute, Schmidt Automotive Research wrote in a report.
Other non-political points may be at play, adding consumers as they wait for the updated model Y. it to be released at the end of March.
The slope can also be used in the United States, but as steep. In California, the largest U. S. market for electric cars, Tesla’s sales have declined over the months. Electric cars and trucks rose 1. 2%, according to the California New Car Dealers Association.
Vikas Bajaj contributed to the New York reports.
Melissa Eddy is in Berlin and reports on German politics, business and its economy. Learn More About Melissa Eddy
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