Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car
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A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the...

A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market.

In 2024, Tesla saw a 41% reduction in sales in Germany compared to 2023 despite EV sales surging 27% during the year.

This has already raised red flags about Tesla’s future in Germany, but it is nothing compared to Tesla’s performance so far in 2025.

Tesla’s sales were down 70% in the first two months of 2025, and again, that’s compared to its already poor performance in 2024.

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Done for now, Musk only owns 12.8% of Tesla - it’s only a matter of time until the institutional shareholders kick him to the kerb.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    475·
    6 hours ago

    A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle.

    Ehhh…

    So, normally, you want a random sample in polls, which is very unlikely to not be representative of the population as a whole. If they have 100k people, it very probably isn’t a random sample, because you only normally take something like 1k to 2k people for randomly-sampled polls; there’s a rapidly-declining value above that. If the sample set is self-selected rather than randomly-selected, you can get results that are pretty different from the population as a whole.

    fires up Google Translate

    While I can’t seem to get the survey page to load, the domain it’s on is apparently t-online.de; it sounds like it’s a reader survey, which won’t be random.

    • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah. The important and encouraging part is that 70% drop of a 41% drop, while other electric cars are gaining.

  • Owl@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    6 hours ago

    doesnt mean much, i guarantee you this number would have already been at 60+ before elon did any of his dumb stunts, solely because most people simply cant afford a tesla or are interested in other cars.

    wont buy and wouldn’t buy carry very different meanings.

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    6 hours ago

    The remaining 6 % of Germans are still 5 million. This number does not means what you think it does.