Autos trade group Mobility Sweden said new vehicle registrations of Tesla models were down 80.7% in April amid a backlash against the political activity of CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla registrations were 203 in April, down from 1,052 a year before.

It was one of the worst-performing automakers for the month in the Nordic country, and sat in contrast to an overall 11% rise in new passenger vehicle registrations to 24,292.

Polestar Automotive, a Swedish electric automaker and one of Tesla’s competitors, saw its sales hit 535 in April, an 11.5% increase.

    • @[email protected]
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      2915 days ago

      As a Scandinavian I too am proud of my brother Sweden. 👍😀
      But you have to take it back about being “best”, when you obviously are only 2nd best! 🇩🇰

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          1715 days ago

          Ok, thanks, we all needed a laugh :)

          But seriously, don’t ever change a thing about yourself, you’re too valuable as Russia’s speedbump.

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          I don’t think racism is worse here than most places. Most people here who are against emigrants, have no problem with their emigrant neighbor or emigrant green grocer, it’s this weird phenomenon where the ones they know are OK, it’s all the others that are the problem.

          Mostly standard fear of the unknown, which is a universal human trait.

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                315 days ago

                Ok I was just trying to help you understand the correct use of those words, as you are a Dane and English not being your native tongue.

                You are talking about them from your POV as a Dane. That makes them imigrants. If a Dane moved to the USA, he would, from your POV, be an emigrant.

                In other words; a foreigner is always an imigrant, a fellow native leaving is always an emigrant.

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                  115 days ago

                  OK, so what if I as a Dane are talking about people the leave their country that isn’t Denmark to settle in a country that also isn’t Denmark?

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                    415 days ago

                    In that case it would depend how you said it. Fred emigrated from UK to France. Or Fred imigrated to Italy from Spain. In normal everyday speak, ‘emigrated to’ would be the more normal way to say it.

                    But I can’t be worried about my emigrant grocer, because he would no longer be there. The imigrant grocer on the other hand…

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          115 days ago

          And that different to Sweden how? I think the difference is that the Danes are more likely to be more open about it. More than half of Sweden backed the racist right wing party in the last elections.

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      315 days ago

      I don’t know what makes it the best to you, I personally hate it here and the people/society is pretty selfish and apathetic, so generally not healthy.

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        215 days ago

        Apathetic in the large scale, but very warm and friendly at the smaller one.

        I lived in the American South, I find this to be much more to my liking as the smiling faces seem less likely to be covering deep, hateful racism looking for an excuse to resort to violence.