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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    112 months ago

    He isn’t even being better than anyone, all he does is publicity stunts while not fixing anything. Everything he has donated was for tax writeoffs.

    • JohnEdwa
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      182 months ago

      Uh huh. The man who has donated roughly 100 billion in total - apparently as “tax writeoffs” - including funding the Gates foundation which spent countless billions treating malaria, aids, tuberculosis, polio, hiv and a myriad of other things, hasn’t fixed anything because billionaire = bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        202 months ago

        As he lobbies for stronger pharmaceutical IP (that he’s invested in) in African countries; when mosquito nets would have been more effective. If you follow the money all of gates philanthropy ultimately benefits gates. He’s a trash human like all billionaires, he’s just really good at PR.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          At least he isn’t sacking thousands of government workers, and probably isn’t defrauding the government…