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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    15315 days ago

    Yet tesla stock goes up. LOL.

    How the fuck is the stock rising?

    Oh. Wall Street is a joke. I forgot.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      4715 days ago

      the entire stock market is a made up imaginary scam that all of our companies have forced us to care about by eliminating pension funds as a retirement avenue. i mean. the entire monetary system, but the stock market especially

    • BombOmOm
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      Yet tesla stock goes up. LOL.

      How the fuck is the stock rising?

      It’s down quite a bit this year:

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s down quite a bit this year:

        Yes and that seems to be mostly from the inauguration, Nazi salute and DOGE, january through March.
        But if you look from when the tariffs were announced in the start of April, and most of American stock is down in that period. Then Tesla has done pretty well in April compared to most, despite being a company that will be hit hard by the tariffs.

    • Lexi Sneptaur
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      8315 days ago

      Tesla stock is up because the board has quietly indicated that they are searching for someone to replace Musk

      • @[email protected]
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        “Quietly indicated.” They intentionally leaked that story to bring up the stock price.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s still the most overvalued stock on the US ticker and it’s not even close.

        Even in the most charitable reading of the future, Tesla chooses a responsible leader, successfully course-corrects, and becomes “just a car company.” The techbro futurist hype goes away, and the value tanks back to reality.

      • @[email protected]
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        7915 days ago

        Will removing him as CEO really matter? As long as he’s as heavily invested in the company as he is, its gains are his gains.

        • Lexi Sneptaur
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          715 days ago

          It matters in the court of public opinion. Most consumers don’t understand anything about corporate politics. CEOs are often just fall guys for evil companies.

      • @[email protected]
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        5115 days ago

        At this point, my grudge is with the entire board and any investors who didn’t sell their shares when they were over $400 and the CEO was tweeting hate speech and throwing Nazi salutes. Elon can walk away or stay, I don’t care. If you hold Tesla stock, you are either a Nazi or ok with Nazis. I will never pass a Tesla without spitting on it.

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          I went so far as to trade my S&P500-flavored index funds for large cap value-flavored ones so I could avoid holding TSLA even by association. It’s so stupid how that moist waste of carbon-based material turned something as silly as an electric car brand into a political totem of autocracy.

        • Lexi Sneptaur
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          1115 days ago

          Yeah I would never ever buy one, especially when there are better options anyway like Polestar and Rivian

          • @[email protected]
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            Traded my Tesla for a Polestar 3. While it does have some weird software quirks and issues, it’s overall been great. Tesla has had a long time to polish their software compared to just about everyone else.

            I expected software issues from a company still early into their ecosystem, but it’s base is Android Automotive so it’s not entirely the terrible in car systems like most legacy automakers.

            • Lexi Sneptaur
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              112 days ago

              I hope the Polestar puts a smile on your face! I’ve always thought they were cool since they started showing up around my area.

      • @[email protected]
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        215 days ago

        Quietly? I literally read about it yesterday right here. Do you mean like they’re calling newspapers, but whispering?

        • Lexi Sneptaur
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          It wasn’t a statement to the press. It was leaked. That means that the whole board likely was not ready to announce it or that they’re trying to keep it on the down low, where mostly just investors will see it and act accordingly.

          Why does everything have to be an argument?

      • Pup Biru
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        hey if they leaked it to see the reaction and it was good, perhaps that’ll seal the deal that they dump musk

        … then we continue not to support tesla for all the same reasons because simply kicking him to the curb doesn’t solve any of those issues but now he’s also been fired

    • @[email protected]
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      215 days ago

      Gamblers. Shorting the stock is still a show of support. If you don’t like Musk, stop betting for or against the stock. Don’t be greedy.

      • Pup Biru
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        what? shorting the stock is literally the same as selling shares

        when you short, you sell someone else’s shares that you don’t own with a promise to buy them back at whatever it costs when you exit your position

        (if the price goes up you’re forced to buy for higher and you lose money; if the price goes down you buy for a lower price and you make money)

        • @[email protected]
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          114 days ago

          Is the value you’re setting your short to still higher than comparable stocks like, say, Toyota’s? You’re still ‘selling’ at irrational prices. Algorithms still sees these as market movement and you just serve as insurance policy for Tesla.

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    5415 days ago

    The story of Elon will be a phenomenal one. Icarus af. He could have ended world hunger and much more, but decided to become a nazi cunt and ruin everything. Money can’t buy intelligence.

    • @[email protected]
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      4115 days ago

      To become a billionaire you have to be a piece of shit human being. No billionaire is ever going to solve world anything, because again… They are trash human beings.

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        There are two reasonably good ones, as far as I know - Gabe Newell and Bill Gates.

        The rest though… yeah.
        The world would be a very different place if every billionaire was anything like those two.

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          3115 days ago

          Gates became a billionare by being a trash human being, then probably decided he didn’t want that to be his legacy so he started being somewhat less of one. He’s doing significantly better than most, but still probably a net negative.

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            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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              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.

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

        • Twig
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          I’d recommend listening to the Behind the Bastards episode on Bill Gates if you think he’s a good person.

  • Dr. Moose
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    Yet the stock has jumped like 50% while every single indicator is red.

    • @[email protected]
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      I can’t believe it will last. Bubble has to pop. International sales in the toilet, Cybertruck failing, domestic sales down, supply chains in shock from tariff chaos, and on top of it all, it’s PE ratio makes no sense compared to all other manufacturers.

      The entire stock price is based on nothing but Elon Musk and the world is starting to look at him as an idiot.

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    Tesla has and is doing exactly what Musk said the goal was for Tesla, long ago. To spur EV sales for other competitors, since Tesla could never meet a full market demand. Congrats Elon, you not only did that, you’ve backed away to give everyone a bigger share of the market. You genius.

    Oh, what? You didn’t mean to do this? Are those tears? Be a big boy and suck it up.

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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! 🇩🇰

        • @[email protected]
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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.

              • @[email protected]
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                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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                  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?

        • @[email protected]
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          114 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

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    I have literally since they were released wanted a Tesla…right up until he decided to start this right wing bullshit.

    I have for a few years now said if in 2015 he decided to become a recluse and just revel in his companies grandeur he might be the next Edison or maybe more accurately Ford. Possibly Hughes.

    Now we are aware of how much of a petulant, unfunny child this dickhead is. He and his reputation is ruined.

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        while he was alive this was less known, pretty much his point. 🤡

    • @[email protected]
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      I was going to buy a Tesla in 2021, the only reason I didn’t was I needed a car immediately and they had a several month waiting list. If it had been available, I would’ve taken it. Even test drove one. Now, I will never buy a Tesla. I would rather have a Rivian anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 days ago

      I even bought LOL-GAS personalized plates, in anticipation of buying a Tesla, but that aint happening now. I still have the plates, though, so maybe one day they’ll adorn a Chinese EV…

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    I hope this evil apartheid Nazi welfare queen gets a lube free dildo of karma everyday for the rest of his life

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    Fucking about with the workers union also adds to the lack of trust and desire for the brand.

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      Yeah, I think the union thing and the latest nazi salute form exactly the kind of combination Sweden won’t forgive easily. Tesla’s reputation is completely gone.

        • Victor
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          Just the same two he started with, but we don’t forget in Sweden.

          • @[email protected]
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            Most people in Sweden appears to have forgotten what party Jimmie Åkesson joined, so I don’t know about that.

            • Victor
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              Most people in Sweden

              According to whom? None in my circle of people anyway.