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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.
Good.
I don’t care who wins as long as the US loses.
I do care. I wish Europe would win. At least the US might have sane people in power half of the time. China is a full on dictatorship. They are more rational than dorito mussolini, but not really who I want to depend on.
Europe will not win because European elites are unimaginative idiots who can not see a future that does not involve sucking up to Americans.
von der Leyen basically caved to Trump in a trade deal despite having a very good hand.
Or maybe she agreed to impossibles just to placate the idiot, because TACO. It’s not over, we’ll see how it ends.
As an American, I think the only path forward for a stable world is a stable Europe, if only because the EU is the biggest non malfunctional, non antagonistic multi country body right now.