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[โ€“] danc4498@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

In gonna need England and Italy to pump them numbers up.

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In Italy the percentage is low because not many Teslas are sold anyway

That's not how percentages work, doofus.

[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I believe it is to do with the difference in the starting number of registrations but would need to see the data broken down.

[โ€“] Damage@feddit.it 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We weren't buying them from the start.

Italy poor.

[โ€“] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm poor.
That's my reason for not buying a Tesla, though.

[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Did you a word, or would you buy one of you had money?

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[โ€“] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 weeks ago

Related:

The Growing Tesla Takedown Protest This Weekend & Next Weekend

In Europe:

Globally:

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

[โ€“] kreskin@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

UK and Italy are evidently full of bastards.

[โ€“] Perish@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Or weren't buying many to begin with ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Elkot@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No they're right, we're bastards

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Bloody bastards even.

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[โ€“] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thatโ€™s not how percentages work.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's not, but there's probably another proportion of the overall community that are "I like Musk and I have money, so I'm going to buy a car". That number isn't related to the previous number of sales, so if sales are already low that "arsehole" number would become more significant.

It's a made up example, but just saying there may be ways in which the sales won't drop below an absolute number.

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[โ€“] Litebit@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

why is Felon Musk not getting fired for poor performance.

[โ€“] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve heard from Germany but are there any articles about Spain? Spain seems to hate musk in particular, me gusta

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[โ€“] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is interesting! Spain and Portugal had in fact a slight rise where others had drops, just a few weeks ago in similar illustrations, but are now among the biggest drops. How can that be?

[โ€“] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

I make a point of never trusting internet information until I personally verify it. Particularly these maps, which are nearly always incorrect or misleading. The internet is full of worthless information. Mining for diamonds is the only means of finding anything even bordering on worthwhile in this garbage pit filled with AI, spam, and propagandists.

[โ€“] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My completely anedoctal reasoning is that at this moment Portugal and Spain have more pressing local fish to fry and the whole American issues are taking a backseat on the public discourse. Most people you talk to will be out of the loop over the DOGE, MAGA, nazi salute plot. Moreover the smaller volume of luxury car sales are also contributing to a lagged response. People who were going to buy Teslas made that decision a while back.

[โ€“] j4yt33@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Different time frames. I think the illustrations where registrations/sales were up was for a time span of two months or so, but overall they're still down if you look at the time shown on this map

[โ€“] Inucune@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck Elon, but I am starting to feel bad for the guys who just wanted to make an electric car. They didn't deserve to get wrapped up in this monkey's paw. I hope they got out while they could.

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[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Interestingly, I do not see quite a bit of European countries, including Poland, Czechia, etc

Feels like either an attempt of manipulation, or lack of research

[โ€“] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you do speak Czech, Polish etcetera then maybe you can find those numbers. It's not easy for someone who doesn't.

[โ€“] IMALlama@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

This is the second result for me when I used this duck duck go query

In January 2025, according to PZPM data, 1,121 new electric vehicles were registered in Poland, which is 0.4% more than a year earlier. In January, against the background of a calm in the market, Tesla showed an impressive decrease in car shipments to customers - by 48.8% to just 103 units. For comparison, in 2024, about 4,500 new Teslas were registered, which gave the American brand almost a 27% share in the Polish market of new electric passenger cars. In January 2025, this share decreased to 9.2%.

[โ€“] sinnsykfinbart@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These numbers are outdated, Tesla are back at the top of sales for March in Norway. Such a shame

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[โ€“] projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm ashamed of the UK and Italy.

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[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

If you're having doubts about how much this movement is working, remember this chart. Keep the boycott going!

[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

You gonna have to pump those numbers down, those are rookie numbers.

France and Spain FTW

[โ€“] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Italy and the uk need to step it up

[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I won't cry for Musk, quite the contrary... But I also don't know how important the EU as a market is for Tesla?

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[โ€“] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

You love to see it

Thatโ€™s just January, just when fElon was just getting started.

Dataisbeautiful

[โ€“] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Is turkey considered part of Europe?

Asking as an American so I understand this.

Edit: thank you everybody that replied and my question is asked incorrectly. I meant if it was part of the EU.

geographically some of it is.

"Europe" doesnt always mean "European Union"

[โ€“] valek879@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, the European part of the country is part of Europe and the rest of the country is in Asia. Source: I listened in middle school.

[โ€“] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I see.

Can you provide a link to your middle school source?

/s

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[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Turkey has asked to join the EU already. It was denied last time but something tells me next time they may be very welcome instead.
(hint: Turkey has the second biggest army in NATO right after the USA and has the most active/quickly growing weapon/armament industry in Europe too)

[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think a change of government would be required as Erdogan is only getting more authoritarian. I suspect this is partly because he knows the backlash is coming, but that may lead to even harsher crack downs on decent and he could go full Putin. The EU wouldn't want that hot mess inside their borders.

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[โ€“] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Basically the part west of the link between the Mediterranean sea and the Black sea is considered is considered European and the rest is not.

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