34 percent depreciation after one year and 6,000 miles

Multiple signs from the last two quarters indicate that sales of Tesla vehicles are declining more sharply than ever. The company is struggling to sell the Cybertruck in particular, as its perceived value has started to plunge.

In the first quarter of 2025, Tesla saw the biggest sales decline in its history. A January report showed that its year-over-year sales fell by half in Europe overall and by 70% in Germany despite rising sales of other EV brands. In February, sales dropped by 49% in China as the company reported its lowest numbers since 2022. Last month, Chinese EV automaker BYD outsold Tesla in Europe for the first time.

  • Fair Fairy
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    Musk’s political activities have soured public opinion on the company and contributed to declining global sales.

    That’s not a political opinion. He did a Nazi salute on live tv

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    This story combines like 3 headlines worth of bad news into one shit sandwich, and man the whole deal tastes like Schadenfreude feels XD

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    351 month ago

    The media is no longer interested in putting a positive spin on Tesla, or any other Skum business. Every earnings call is going to be worse than the last one, which will just accelerate the decline. The damage to the brand image is irreparable, and directly attributable to Skum’s irresponsible ego bender, and a brutal shareholder lawsuit is inevitable.

    Tesla will be bankrupt in less than 2 years.

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      161 month ago

      I see the same but cannot for the life of me understand how the stock isn’t shitting the bed. The whole US market is irrational at this stage but Tesla is just ridiculous

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        A lot of people still believe Musk is some sort of tech genius, and he will revolutionize AI and robotics with Tesla.
        But Tesla isn’t even among the leaders in anything anymore, either Electric cars, or self driving, or AI/robotics.
        Tesla boasted the most profitable car production a few years back, and people think he is also some sort of production of scale genius. But today Tesla is selling every car at a deficit!
        Their profits comes mostly from selling CO2 tax credits and then some from financial gains. The main business is losing money already, and that will probably get worse as the competition out-competes Tesla heavily in China and EU, and only USA remains as a niche market for Tesla behind a protective wall of import tariffs.

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          61 month ago

          lol no.

          It’s a meme stock.

          He can keep Tesla stock high by doing something extreme. He just needs to keep being more extreme than the last time. Buckle up buckeroo.

          • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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            Maybe I’m naive, but I generally like to think that at some point people wise up. But Trump has proven me wrong way more clearly than I’d like to admit.
            So maybe you are right?

        • @Daggity@lemm.ee
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          I really think people are banking on him buying a public contract to make the government use teslas.

      • Lightor
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        I think his wild promise around the self driving taxi is protecting the value some. It’ll never get off the ground though, and I think once that reality hits the stock will tumble again.

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        It’s already down 45% from its high, and it’s never going back. That high was all a delusion, based on nothing but faith in Skum, and now that we know him, people don’t have that same faith.

        The stock is being supported at this level by institutional investors. Every big fund holds a large chunk of Tesla stock, but that will start to change. With each successive disastrous earnings call, the stock will shed more and more investors, and at some point, the big institutional investors will start to dump it, too, and then it will properly crash.

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        21 month ago

        maybe they think that agent orange will bail it out and they’ll get free money?

  • @Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    271 month ago

    This won’t change even when he leaves the company. He and his companies are inextricably linked. He is the companies.

    Liquidate Musk

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      Maybe they can make their money back from YouTube videos tipping CyberTruck over cliffs etc

  • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    Just passed a Tesla lot today and it was packed full of these trucks, and cars. All were covered in dust.

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      That’s just how they look clean. That metal doesn’t last. It also gets wobbly. Warpy? Like… it’s not that super flat metal anymore.

      They look awful. Good.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        Someone in my town owns a cybertruck. The metal started getting badly discolored so they painted it black. It doesn’t look any better in black.

        • @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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          I saw one that had been painted a matte black, and I gotta admit, it actually looked pretty cool. Still a wildly impractical, deathtrap of a car, but it did look like a cool vehicle you’d see in a sci-fi movie.

  • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    Hilarious and deserved. They should have built something useful instead of overhyping a truck that can’t do truck things and gets bricked by rain or broken latches.

    • Fair Fairy
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      What sucks - I fund this abomination because as a US citizen I cannot buy cheap byd because they keep them out to prop up Tesla shit

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        Wdym?

        I know they’re not cheap but there are way better options now: Hyundai, Volvo, Rivian, etc are making EVs. Hybrids (especially plugin) are available from some of the most reliable companies, ie Toyota.

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    I don’t really want one, but I’m tempted to go down and haggle.

    “Really, given how unpopular they are and the unsold inventory, you should pay me to take one. It’s costing you money every day it sits here… Stop the bleeding…”

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    Did u Americans even know there are BYD dealerships all over EU?

    Tesla can’t compete on price and that’s the only metric that matters in capitalism.

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      101 month ago

      We aren’t under capitalism anymore. We are transitioning.

      At one point the merchants made more money than kings and that’s why we are under capitalism.

      Now tech has made all of the money, and holds most of it, and so we transition again.

      They don’t care about the old rules, that’s why they are breaking them.

      Musk doesn’t need Tesla. He already has everything he needs to be a borderless king. So he is.

      It’s you and I that need to care about money, but the oligarchs have transitioned from it already and no longer need to care.

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    Last month, Chinese EV automaker BYD outsold Tesla in Europe for the first time.

    Because they’re actually good cars and they come in varieties other than sports. Tesla has always had this problem that as soon as real car companies come along their own vehicles start to look less appealing in comparison. Just look at the explosion of electric pickups. And then Tesla answer that with the cybertruck, seriously that was the best they could do?

    They had it all their own way at first because there were virtually no other EV car manufacturers. That is now starting to change and they haven’t responded to that threat in any real way.

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        That’s also Tesla’s fault. They massively overprice their cars so that even when they’re competing against a tariff their cars are still more expensive than the competitions.

        Oh and BYD cars have actually decent self-driving capabilities. Not that it’s 100%, but it’s a lot better than Tesla’s offering, and unlike Tesla you don’t have to pay extra for it, it’s just standard.