Tesla faces a number of challenges in Europe including continued intense competition and brand damage from Elon Musk's political involvement.

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New European car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA.

BYD recorded 13,503 new registrations in July, up 225% annually.

Elon Musk’s automaker faces a number of challenges in Europe, including intense ongoing competition and reputational damage to the brand.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The Kia EV3 and Picanto are pretty popular in the Netherlands nowadays, which are basically just a Hyundai in disguise.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The KIA EV3 was very well received by the press here, and won car of the year first price with Skoda Elroq as #2.
      But in sales the Skoda Elroq beat the KIA EV3 with the Elroq as #1 and the EV3 as #3.
      KIA Picanto is a model that has been reasonably popular here, is that available as BEV now?
      Here BEV clearly dominate the market. I think all of top 10 cars sold are BEV.

      https://mobility.dk/nyheder/juli-boed-paa-markant-fremgang-i-bilsalget-elbiler-fortsat-i-front-men-usikkerhed-om-bilpriser-venter/

      I think I wrote 7 of top 10 were VW group, turns out it was actually 8 out of 10.
      With KIA EV3 and Renault R5 being the only 2 that are not from VW group. And the VW T-Roc and Cupra Leon as the only non BEV.

      Also note that despite BEV is absolutely dominant, Tesla is completely out of top 10 now.

      If you don’t have a translator in your browser, I can copy paste a translation of the article for you.
      Just for fun, you might try to “decode” the Danish text, and be surprised how much you can understand. I sometimes do that with Dutch, and knowing English and German and having Danish as a native language, I can understand about 80% 😋 , but it’s slow as hell.