Tesla faces a number of challenges in Europe including continued intense competition and brand damage from Elon Musk's political involvement.

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New European car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA.

BYD recorded 13,503 new registrations in July, up 225% annually.

Elon Musk’s automaker faces a number of challenges in Europe, including intense ongoing competition and reputational damage to the brand.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    17 days ago

    I tried to drive a model 3 and it was infuriating to have everything on touch including turn indicators, windshield wipers and especially the gear selector.

    Then a huge screen that can’t be used with your phone so you’re still forced to use a phone holder like a decade ago.

    For me a car without carplay/android auto loses $5000 in value, and “touchscreen everything” removes another $5000 in value. I could only accept those compromises in a $20k car if new, $10k if used

    • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      17 days ago

      Wait what?? I knew they overused terrible touch screen controls… But you can’t even connect your phone properly?

      • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        31·
        16 days ago

        What does “properly” mean in this context? In my experience, every android auto -supporting car is way worse than Tesla.

        • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          Well the way he framed it. As in you still need your phone in an holder. I figured you can’t properly control your music from Tesla. Can’t easily make calls, Bad support for other apps. I’ve never really experienced a Tesla properly, and I would way too ashamed to do so nowadays. So I don’t really know the experience very well.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            I mean, infotainment is the one thing where they’re not TOO bad. I think you can just get native apps for Spotify and Apple Music. No Waze though.

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            You don’t need your phone anywhere, it’s just not Android auto. You can make phone calls through your phone via voice, it can play music from your phone, but there’s limited controls there to control the phone, or you can just use any of their built in music apps with full voice and touch screen controls. I think you can even do voice to text messages or have text messages read to you, but I’m not 100% sure on that one. There’s something about text messages though. You can share a map location from your phone directly to the car.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        The phone connects over Bluetooth. The car itself runs apps for some services, so you log in on the car for those apps to run them natively. If you personally don’t use any of the services/apps it supports though, you’re stuck with Bluetooth only. Full forward/back/skip/ etc supported but it’s not android auto. I think all the models come with the built in phone charging cradle spot under the touch screen.