VW has overtaken Tesla as Europe's top EV seller
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Volkswagen EV registrations rose more than 150% year-over-year while Tesla saw the biggest decline among the top 30 brands.

Summary

  • Volkswagen beat Tesla in European EV sales across the first three months of 2025, data shows.
  • Registrations for VW EVs are up more than 150%, while Tesla lost huge ground.
  • However, the Model Y and Model 3 remain Europe’s top two most-registered EVs.
    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Don’t want to protect elon musk’s swastikar LLC with tariffs? Must be a tankie! Want to buy a cheap electric vehicle? tankie!

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        “Anyone who supports Tesla is now a Tankie. Anyone who is anti-Tarrifs is now a Tankie. Anyone who wants anything anti-Trump is a Tankie.”

        For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      16 hours ago

      Fuck the Tankies fuck communism entirely, I just got back from Cambodia, got an economics degree and like capitalism, China’s a bunch of dickheads.

      BYD is going to change the world.

      It’s the classic incumbents move slow into new tech. Added with government investment, low labour costs, access to raw materials/adjacent industries, hungry growth focused companies, semi crazy workforce.

      I haven’t drove a BYD or even a electric car for that matter but reading the stats things are going to move fast and the rate they move is going to increase. I can see all the west companies largely losing their overseas market, other than luxury, inside cities. The world’s moved on and people don’t realise.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 hours ago

        Nice try but true capitalists with economics degrees hate capitalism. There simply is no other system ever attempted.

        China’s capitalist move is to operate these electric car companies at or near a loss to push competitors out of the markets which would be unsustainable if they had to worry about human rights in the process.

        • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          5 hours ago

          Plenty of things have been tried.

          Like communism has been tried multiple times. Every time was an unmitigated fucking disaster.