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The sale of Tesla in Germany and Great Britain fell at their lowest point in more than two years in April, causing a wider trend of Europeans to shy away from the American car maker, despite the growing demand for batteries in Europe.
Registrations of new Tesla vehicles fell nearly 46 percent in Germany and 62 percent in Great Britain of a year earlier, although both countries reported an increase in the number of electric vehicles in the same period, according to the statistics released on Tuesday.
Other European countries reported comparable decrease in demand for Tesla products, with new registrations in Sweden that fell more than 80 percent, while demand in France fell by more than 59 percent.
Some experts have pointed out that deliveries of the latest version of Tesla’s popular model Y did not fully start rolling out in Europe, which could contribute to the decline.
But others say that the latest figures are proof that the recoil against the rates of President Trump, who is one European push to avoid American productsAnd anger at Tesla’s Chief Executive, Elon Musk, to support extreme right -wing parties, take their toll.
“European data from April are strongly stated that this is more than switching a model switch, and the European issues of Tesla are deeper rooted and arise from Mr. Musk,” said Matthias Schmidt, an analyst who treats the European car market at Schmidt Automotive Research.
Great -Britain has mainly been A hotspot for anti-mus satire And art, which helps to feed the pushback against the American brand, which once dominated the sale of electric cars in much of Europe.
Norway, where Tesla played an essential role By helping the country achieve his goal to have all new vehicles be sold, the end of this year was emission -free, it was a biter. The registrations there of the model Y increased in April.
But more than half of it was for used cars, not the newest updated Juniper version, according to the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council. It noted that Tesla saw its share in the market, which for a long time dominated, slips to 11 percent, at 18 percent at the same time last year.
“Tesla is not nearly near the level that we are used to, you can’t pretend,” said Oyvind Solberg Thorsen, director of the Council.
Popularity continued to grow in Europe by Chinese. For example, BYD registered an increase of 755 percent for April in Germany, despite the import tariffs of 27 percent of the European Union. In Great -Britain, where the EU rate does not apply, the turnover of the Chinese company increased by 311 percent.
The German Volkswagen has also seen a recovery in Europe, with an increased demand for its vehicles on batteries and more than doubled in the first quarter of the year.
“The tide seems to have become in Tesla, and at least Europe seems to go further, or back to old manufacturers who have been overtaken,” said Mr. Schmidt.
Last month, after Tesla Reported a profit drop of 71 percent in the first three months of the year, Mr. Musk, said that he would spend less time in Washington and concentrate more on managing his companies.
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