Summary

A survey of 100,000 Germans found that 94% refuse to buy a Tesla, signaling a major crisis for the company.

Tesla’s German sales dropped 70% in early 2025 after a 41% decline in 2024, despite overall EV sales rising.

Analysts attribute the slump to CEO Elon Musk’s far-right political endorsements, including promoting the AfD party and making Nazi-related gestures. Musk is under European investigation for political meddling.

With Tesla’s reputation plummeting, industry experts predict further losses in Germany’s competitive EV market.

  • Underwire@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    18 minutes ago

    It is already dumb for a German to buy an American car. It is like a French buying an American wine.

  • Denixen@feddit.nu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    56 minutes ago

    Neintyfour percent say no. Doesn’t this mean like most of AfD voters also say nein?

    • joostjakob@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      47 minutes ago

      As I said in the other place this article was posted: the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That’s already enough to skew results. Add to that that there’s a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don’t care or haven’t heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There’s a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

    • silver13@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      48 minutes ago

      Because they have been fed massive propaganda against EVs for years, they would never buy one anyway.