From 1 to 4?
Anyone but Tesla.
One aspect is that Tesla has a surplus of cars. Normally, it takes a few months from ordering to getting and registering a car. Which means that the effects of the war with Iran are not yet registering here.
The main driver for the rise of regristrations in March was apparently a change in EV subsidies which had been canceled the year before.
The Tesla Model Y is also the first time a BEV is the most sold SUV in Germany.
Are the absolute numbers of Teslas not quite small in relation? I mean if they sell 1 in 2025 and 4 in 2026, it’s a 400% rise - but still not much.
I would not be surprised if Tesla is currently selling off the overproduction of the last couple months on a loss.
Last year it was “Look at those Chinese EV manufacturers increasing their sales by X-hundred %”, when in reality it was on the lower end compared to European EV’s increases and also from “no market share to still no market share worth mentioning”.
Now it’s “Tesla registrations up by x-hundred %”… and the moment we get actual numbers and details it’s probably less than other cars and purely based on company registrations that got those shelf warmers really cheap.
On one hand this constant media bullshit is annoying, but on the other hand it’s probably a very good sign how much work and money gets spend so the media constantly tells us those stories about what a failure European EVs (and sovereign European tech… and renewables in general… and… and…) are. You can basically smell the panic.
But to not just rant about yet another idiotic story, here are some recent German EV marktshares:
- Volkswagen 18.8%
- BMW 9.5%
- Skoda 9.3%
- Audi 7.4%
- Mercedes 6.4%
- Seat 6.0%
- Hyundai 4.6%
- Ford 3.8%
- Tesla 3.6%
- Opel 3.4%
- Mini 2.8%
- Kia 2.8%
- Renault 2.3%
- Fiat 2.3%
- BYD 2.0%
Edit: formating…
It’s the only legal way to openly tell everyone you’re a Nazi in Germany nowadays.
Nah, you are allowed to wear AfD merch too.
It’s wild that people still buy those Fascistmobiles.
I mean there are a whole lot of fascists in Germany…
I might go as far as to say German culture is the least capable of resisting fascism in Europe
Coming from a European, the absolute masters of the “look there,
a three-heade monkeyGermany!!!”-diversion, usually with topics that are pure projection of their own fuck-ups, too, this must be satire.Most of them are poor tho. Like the people voting for AfD will mostly not buy Teslas.
Those are the tools.
Fascism is enabled and engaged via the petite bourgeoisie.
Also, sidenote, not all Teslas are expensive?
Most people who are intelligent know that buying pretty much any other brand of EV is a better choice so I am sure you can get Teslas cheap right now.
A plantation on Mars would be almost as good as one in Brazil.
With the way they keep killing people, I wasn’t all that comfortable getting a Model Y uber in the snow last winter.
Wow what a surprise it failed?!???
Don’t these obsessive rightwing projects of micromanagement expanded into a violent and pervasive state of control by overconfident vastly powerful men usually work out perfectly?
I am shocked!
They probably weren’t worshipping strength and productivity over everything else in their lives hard enough.
My personal armchair opinion is they should try it again but this time have less empathy for the weak and downtrodden who don’t fit into the plan. Then it will surely work! I know this because I am a rich and powerful businessman and that makes me less naive than everybody else.
I might go as far as to say German culture is the least capable of resisting fascism in Europe based on the last ~150 years of history.
Looks at Russia…
I prefer the term “Swasticar”, as coined by this amazing British campaign:
