While Elon Musk attacks European politics, Tesla sells the continent falls.
The sales of the electric car manufacturer in Germany and France landed in January, reducing 59% and 63% according to the data.
Tesla sales in the European Union fell 13% in 2024, while the car manufacturer expanded in its third market in its competition by launching a wave of less expensive electric models.
Argus Media Worth Council research suggests that the maximum decrease is serious in the main markets such as Germany, France and Italy.
In Germany, the center of the European automotive industry and the space of Berlin Gigafactory in Tesla, the sales of Tesla fell by 41% last year, exceeding the fall of sales of 27% in the general market of Batteries EV.
Tesla’s misfortunes came here while electric cars sales fell in Europe in 2024, fired until the end of key subsidies in several markets.
“The big picture is a shrinking EV market across Europe. But Tesla is shrinking faster than that, and in specific markets, it is outpacing that decline,” Dylan Khoo, an analyst at Argus, told BI.
While Tesla’s sales in markets such as Belgium, Netherlands, and Sweden rose last year, the overall picture in Europe is less than rosy for the automaker — especially with many of its rivals rolling out their own mass-market electric vehicles.
Swedish brand Volvo, owned by Chinese conglomerate Geely, saw its sales rise nearly 30% in the EU last year, driven by the popularity of its 36,000 euro ($40,000) EX30 electric crossover.
The rivals like Renault and BMW also saw that their sales accumulate in Europe and the United Kingdom last year, the French company Renault launched less expensive models, adding the r5 of the wand.
The experts told BI that an expired diversity of products had reached the European activities of Tesla.
The automobile manufacturer has not introduced a new vehicle in Europe since the model and in 2021. its maximum Recent EV, the cybertruck, should not be had in the United Kingdom or Europe.
“It’s a little bit like the same thing,” said Philip Nothard, chief strategy officer at Cox Automotive.
Nothard added that Tesla was facing a more crowded EV market in Europe and coming under pressure from domestic rivals and insurgent Chinese carmakers, who have ambitious growth plans for Europe.
Khoo and Nothard said the style will recently be the key to converting Tesla’s fortune into Europe.
SUV delivery updates begin later this year, and Tesla expects the new style to bounce back corporate after posting its first annual sales in 2024.
Tesla’s difficulties in Europe occur, while CEO Elon Musk continues to shake European politics.
The billionaire has caused indignation among many in Germany with its back of the right -wing AFD. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz scored Musk’s for the “right end” as “completely unacceptable. “
Several German corporations have announced that they would process Tesla cars in Musk’s comments in recent months. Last month, the activists screened a symbol of a debatable gesture made through the Chief of Tesla, an occasion at the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Berlin factory.
Musk has also been entangled in British politics, looking in Prime Minister Keir Starmer and, according to reports, a donation to reform the right -wing party.
The controversy surrounding Musk has noted that one of Tesla’s rivals is accentuating efforts to woo disgruntled owners.
The Logo CEO, EV Polestar, recently said that he had told sales staff to go to Tesla owners driven by Musk’s impulse in politics and Scholz echoed when calling the AFD billionaire ” totally unacceptable. “
“We have many other people who write that they don’t like everything,” said Michael Lohscheller to Bloomberg. “It is paying attention to what they say. And I can tell you that many other people have a very, very negative feeling. “
Matthias Schmidt, a German auto analyst, told BI that he expected Musk’s political implications in all likelihood to have an effect on Tesla’s European sales, and said competition like Polestar would likely take advantage of the advantages of dissatisfied Tesla owners abandoning their vehicles.
“I hope that Tesla’s rivals rub their hands because this is the precise point in which they want a wonderful absorption of electric cars for their own products,” Schmidt said.
“The more Elon Musk continues to shoot himself in the foot, if you like, the more Germans and European manufacturers can only benefit. For them, it’s like Christmas and all their birthdays coming all at once,” he added.
However, Nothard said consumers would be more involved with points such as value and performance, than Musk’s policy.
“I don’t think the consumer really connects it. Ultimately it’s a car —do they like it, is it affordable to them? Does it fulfill the requirements of what they want? That’s really what the consumer is looking at,” he said.
Tesla responded to a request for comment from BI.
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