It’s wild that people still buy those Fascistmobiles.

Last year it was “Look at those Chinese EV manufacturers increasing their sales by X-hundred %”, when in reality it was on the lower end compared to European EV’s increases and also from “no market share to still no market share worth mentioning”.

Now it’s “Tesla registrations up by x-hundred %”… and the moment we get actual numbers and details it’s probably less than other cars and purely based on company registrations that got those shelf warmers really cheap.

On one hand this constant media bullshit is annoying, but on the other hand it’s probably a very good sign how much work and money gets spend so the media constantly tells us those stories about what a failure European EVs (and sovereign European tech… and renewables in general… and… and…) are. You can basically smell the panic.

But to not just rant about yet another idiotic story, here are some recent German EV marktshares:

• Volkswagen 18.8%
• BMW 9.5%
• Skoda 9.3%
• Audi 7.4%
• Mercedes 6.4%
• Seat 6.0%
• Hyundai 4.6%
• Ford 3.8%
• Tesla 3.6%
• Opel 3.4%
• Mini 2.8%
• Kia 2.8%
• Renault 2.3%
• Fiat 2.3%
• BYD 2.0%

Edit: formating…

Anyone but Tesla.

From 1 to 4?

One aspect is that Tesla has a surplus of cars, and low prices. Normally, it takes a few months from ordering to getting and registering a car. Which means that the effects of the war with Iran are not yet registering here.

The main driver for the rise of regristrations in March was apparently a change in EV subsidies which had been canceled the year before.

Oh, and in Germany, car dealers and car companies can and do make certain regristrations,so “x cars registered” is not at all the same thing as “x cars sold to people that use them”. There are also many cars that are sold with heave rebates and sold again after one year, because few people want to pay new car prices.

The Tesla Model Y is also the first time a BEV is the most sold SUV in Germany.