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.
One aspect is that Tesla has a surplus of cars, and low prices. 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.
Oh, and in Germany, car dealers and car companies can and do make certain regristrations,so “x cars registered” is not at all the same thing as “x cars sold to people that use them”. There are also many cars that are sold with heave rebates and sold again after one year, because few people want to pay new car prices.
It’s wild that people still buy those Fascistmobiles.
I prefer the term “Swasticar”, as coined by this amazing British campaign:
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 based on the last ~150 years of history. Which doesn’t mean all Germans are like that but Germany has a serious weakness towards becoming broadly enamored with fascism. (I live in the US, to be clear I see the US very similarly).
Of course Elon Musk is going to be popular with fascists in Germany. This is the same old shit over and over again.
I will say the idea of Germans buying shitty, badly made US cars because they are made by a company owned by an inept fascist is pretty funny in a dark way.
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 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.
buying shitty, badly made US cars because they are made by a company owned by an inept fascist is pretty funny in a dark way.
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.
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.
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…
Anyone but Tesla.
From 1 to 4?