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.
And that’s Germany that just elected a right wing government and almost elected a FAR right government. Imagine the rest of Europe. On top of that, china’s evs are top tier in quality from what I hear. Would much rather do business with them since they aren’t trying to annex me.
That happens when a brand is about one person. Musk made Tesla all about himSelf. In a way he was the product - you could buy his cool car. Be a part of the company with that cool weird funny CEO. He posts memes just like you!!! Loom at his funny flamethrower! How random! Hahaha! He would also lie about so many features that nobody could actually believe it was a lie (full self driving next year™, battery range etc). So they still went ahead and bought it - and had a lot of sunken cost associated to his cool image.
But oh no! It turns out the guy is actually an asshole, a racist, likes nazis, is an delusional and unpredictable drug addict, not that smart, born with money from aparthheit-enabled-exploitation - who could’ve known!?!?
now people don’t like him, so they stop buying his product.
Reminds me of subway. They somehow survived that whole PR nightmare, but still… They’re not nearly what they used to be.
Subway was down in quality before Jarod was discovered to be a pedophile.
They do have some other similarities with Tesla though, like rapid expansion, market saturation and short term profits over quality.
Tesla also has the crazy market over valuation that needs a correction (more valuable than Toyota? LMAO).
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.
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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.
Yeah. The important and encouraging part is that 70% drop of a 41% drop, while other electric cars are gaining.
Very important point, just one technical remark, because I see this a lot: You don’t necessarily want or need random samples in surveys. What you want is a probability sample, which means that you know the probability with which a person enters the sample. A random sample is a special type of probability sample, where each person has the same probability to enter the sample.
The large sample used for this “survey” in the OP is a convenience sample, which is a non-probability sample, where the persons’ probabilities to enter the sample are simply unknown. And this is often not a useful basis for a survey, because it’s affected by all sorts of response biases that are difficult to adjust for in non-probability samples.
🫱🦋 Is this domestic terrorism? /s
No! This is systematic extortion! This is suppression of free speech! This is against the free market!
