--- title: "Tesla Just Got Horrible New Sales Data From Europe" description: "Across the pond, Tesla sales have been nearly halved amid Elon Musk's far-right politicking and popular opinion turning against him." date: "2025-03-26" modified: "2025-03-26" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-sales-data-europe" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "elon musk" - "sales" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Tesla Just Got Horrible New Sales Data From Europe ![Across the pond, Tesla sales have been nearly halved amid Elon Musk's far-right politicking and popular opinion turning against him.]() *\Image: Win McNamee / Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism\* ## Crash Dummies Across the pond, Tesla sales have been nearly halved amid [Elon Musk's far-right politicking](). In a [new report](), the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association — abbreviated ACEA, per its French name — found that in the European Union, Tesla sales were down a brutal 49 percent in January and February 2025 as compared to 2024. During the first two months of this year, per the ACEA's tracking, only about 19,000 units of the Musk-owned electric vehicles were registered in the EU. That's a massive drop from January and February 2024, when 37,000 Teslas were registered. Though that report doesn't provide any reasons why Tesla's numbers are so dismal, it did note that hybrid vehicles' registrations rose 19 percent during the same time period, while electric cars dropped roughly 1.4 percent. The only other company whose sales dipped anywhere near as low was Mitsubishi, which saw a 34 percent year-over-year loss. ## Road to Ruin Reading between the lines, it's not hard to gather why Tesla has become such a toxic brand in Europe, where [Musk's Nazi salute]() and [alleged election-meddling]() on behalf of the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party seem [particularly salient](). In a recent online poll conducted by the German-language [news site *T-Online*](), for instance, found that out of 100,000 survey respondents, more than 94 percent said they would no longer even consider buying a Tesla. In that poll, as with the ACEA figures, no conclusions were drawn about *why* people felt that way — but in Germany in particular, the [writing is on the wall](). Speaking [to *The Guardian*]() about the sales slump, Felipe Muñoz of the business intelligence firm JATO Dynamics suggested that there were other factors at play with Tesla's drop in registrations — which JATO put at around 44 percent — including the [delayed Model Y reboot]() and [increased EV competition](). Still, Musk's "increasingly active role in politics" isn't doing his company any favors, the global analyst contended. And while Musk messes around in politics on both sides of the Atlantic, folks in the EU are seemingly voting against him with their Euros. **More on Tesla hate:** [*Crowd Cheers as TV Shows Cybertrucks Burning After Being Hit by Molotov Cocktails*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()