“All that said, those sales number are very strong in a difficult EV climate, I don’t think this is a doom and gloom scenario.”

Seriously! threeof the top five countries are in very northern cold regions!

So either they appropriately tax their oil-producing companies instead of giving them tax breaks like the US does with it’s profitable oil producing companies, or they have nationalized their natural resources and seem to be able to continue to successfully sell their oil produced for a profit.

All of your first paragraph is simply saying they are a country of people that seem to get along and have a consistent well-running government instead of a bunch of extremists with a deeply distrusted government that likes to completely change the rules every time another side regains power.

FYI: the USA is the #1 oil producer in the world. Most of the “drill baby drill” and “we need to stop depending on foreign oil” people don’t seem to know that. I’d bet that’s one of the few things the US is #1 in that Fox News will never say. 

Well this is good news, isn’t it, because Tesla isn’t a car company!

You forgot Bibi, sorry but he’s definitely in the top five now after using one attack to jump start an effort toward mass genocide and killing countless innocent people that have jack squat to do with the initial attack.

It would be helpful to just see YOY sales of pure EVs by manufacturer. I’m pretty sure most are still showing YOY growth... just not the kind of growth they had hoped for. The main reason the headline has been that EV sales have dropped is because TESLA EV sales have dropped, and their market share is big enough to…

The vast majority of those $85k cars that were not 3's and Y’s were likely CTs. If you remove them from the sales that makes their YOY even worse, and we know the CT sales are going to tank after satisfying the “millions” *LOL* of pre-sales they were filling all year.

Yep, and when it falls flat he’ll just say that’s a good thing because they’re not a car company anyway.

Exactly. Put every model year of their cars side by side and 95% of people won’t be able to tell which is the oldest or newest.

Tesla stans will argue against that by pointing out minor change like headlights looking different that most consumers won’t notice or even care about. You put every model year of the Model 3 side by side and 95% of people won’t know which one is newest or oldest.

“Tesla still is king of long-distance travel.”

Doubt it. He’s starting to piss off the MAGA crowd too after supporting certain work visas. His problem is that he can’t just keep his mouth shut about it. Even Trump knows not to talk about all of the immigrant labor he has working at is company properties while out shouting to his racist base against immigrants. 

What, the leopards are eating each other’s faces??

If you didn’t see him for what he was before then I don’t think you were looking very hard.

Will there be a similar story about Tesla in a year? They’re keeping production at full capacity despite decreased demand and they’re filling every empty parking lot they find. 

So, China/US?

Musk just has to make another ridiculous promise and it’ll bounce right back.

True. We would need to determine which is better: temporary role as one of the most powerful people in the world, or long-term status as multi-hundred billionaire.