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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

No way I will ever buy a car that is software first, can't even fix or maintain them yourself.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Dude's practically shitting on himself and everything around him like some kind of horrifying lawn sprinkler of shit and his company only goes down 13%?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

The decline came despite deep discounts, zero financing and other incentives

And we’re only two years past “50% growth every year”, so that’s a huge difference from their forecast and despite them trying to fix it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Why would anyone think any stats they get from these traitors are real? They lie about literally EVERYTHING. Even if the numbers were amazing, they'd sweeten them. Lying/ Cheating/ Stealing/ Corruption is their brand.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

Well, considering they have been caught buying their own cars to steal subsidies in Canada, who knows what those numbers even mean anymore? As long as it's going down it's on the right path.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

I know it's disappointing. I guess European sales declines were off-set by increases in sales elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In Canada they were clearly trying to fake sales to steal tax credits from the government. Canada froze their funds and told them to fuck off. The U.S. won't stop Musk from faking sales to make it look better than it is. Guaranteed Musk is up to some fuckery.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I assume that's in the US only. The sames drop in Europe is far worse (40 to 80% depending on country) because they are less receptive to fascists than the US.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tesla reported deliveries of 336,681 globally in the January to March quarter. The figure was down from sales of 387,000 in the same period a year ago.

Emphasis: globally

Edit: also note, "Tesla reported". I wouldn't trust them to be giving accurate numbers, so it's actually probably a lot worse.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

There's no way those numbers are real: https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-recall-trump-byd-b6f5da15be491d16e3020598e3ddf861

Canadian sales are fabricated and they are down in China too as BYD eat their lunch. Where else would the shortfall come from?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought I remember reading that UK numbers went up. But I wonder if that's a situation like the Canadian "sales" they had recently...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

https://fortune.com/europe/2025/03/06/tesla-uk-sales-rise-growing-ev-adoption-european-backlash-elon-musk/

They've gone up, but it looks like it might be to get ahead of the April tax on cars over £40k. We might see a reduction in sales April onwards, and as the article points out the sales increase is below that of other brands.

Still not ideal though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The Canadian "sales" where three Tesla dealerships each averaged one car sold for every single minute during a three-day weekend? No, that was totally legit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That would make more sense

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Never underestimate political apathy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Chinas BYD will weakens teslas reach more than anything, and nobody is buying it at home, except ignorant douches for the truck.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

TSLA at this moment is up nearly 5% for the day, and 13.37% in last 6months.

Musk Stans are stupid AF.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

The market is betting on corruption

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

It really is a meme stock. The next headline can move it wildly into either direction, totally independent of the underlying business. Owning TSLA is basically gambling, and people love gambling.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think he believes that in his mind considering the people he associates with himself with. He wins...somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

He absolutely wins. In 5 years his role will be forgotten or whitewashed and Tesla is just a car company again, and he’s worth a trillion at that point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Lelon Musk? Elon Mulsk? I'm gonna stick to my usual name for him: Mecha-Karen

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If only they used the time and resources that they wasted on developing the Cybertruck on an actually viable and affordable model

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't imagine they spent a lot of time or money designing the cybertruck...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And it's still the best selling pickup truck... People who buy pickup EV don't give a fuck about it being a poor truck. Truly wild times, I thought Ford would demolish them but they are so far behind its laughable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And it’s still the best selling pickup truck…

What?

They've sold like 47k total, and there was 10x that in Silverado sales in 2024 just in America...

And they're not even the best selling pickup truck in America.

What metric are you using?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The metric called EV pickup truck?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, leaving out EV was probably a bad choice then

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Either your contextual reading skills are non existent or you didn't read past the 1st sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it's your writing skill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Could be, language barriers and all... Surely justifies the hostility, doesn't it? I'm convinced people understood what I meant and took it upon themselves to just be a jackass. I'm not even defending the CT, but I'm not going to twist reality and pretend like other (ev) pickup trucks are somehow outselling it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

There really was no hostility imo, but whatever. You keep thinking everyone is mean to you.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 12 hours ago

It would appear no one is siding with you, and only one person disagreed with me...

Likely you ..

So I understand you think what you meant was clear, but it would seem no one else agrees...

So maybe, just maybe, it's your fault

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Really? Only 13%?

Maybe it’s a lagging indicator? Maybe sales in China picked up? Maybe the numbers have been finessed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

sells are still to high,

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you sure it's not because the cybertruck is awful? Because I think it might be partly because the cybertruck is awful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They report model 3 and Y together and then "other" carrying legacy S, X and CT.