Elon Musk’s brand sold 12,130 new cars across the EU last month, down from 18,430 in November 2024
Tesla continued a run of weak sales in the EU in November, with new car registrations of Elon Musk’s brand down a third, while Chinese carmakers’ sales soared.
Tesla sold 12,130 new cars across the EU last month, down from 18,430 in November 2024, shrinking its market share from 2.1% to 1.4%, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (Acea), a lobby group.
The Chinese carmaker BYD recorded by far the fastest sales growth, with registrations across Europe almost tripling year on year up to November, to 42,500. Chinese state-owned SAIC, the owner of the MG brand, recorded sales increases of 26% to push sales to 217,000.
Gonna have to agree there.
Years ago, I thought Toyota would pivot and become a forerunner in the EV revolution. They already put electric motors in their cars, they had hybrid versions of nearly everything they made a decade ago already!
Now it’s been over a decade since Tesla made EVs an actual thing you could drive in the public’s eyes… and the only electric Toyota that’s not a van, that I can buy right now, is still the bZ4X which was kinda uninspiring when it came out… let alone now.
At least earlier European electric cars (Volvo, BMW, Audi mostly) have started depreciating enough that they’re in my ballpark now. I don’t want to pay 30k EUR for a car that costs 30k EUR new, but I’ll pay 30k EUR for a car that was 80k just 2-3 years ago. It’s just one of my quirks, I want to get as much car as possible for as little money as possible, and to make up for it, I’ll do my own repairs on formerly expensive, complex European automobiles.