Tesla has a nightmare in Europe – and now it has been overwhelmed by two Chinese rivals in the United Kingdom.
The giant EV sold only 512 cars in Great Britain last month, against more than 1,300 in April 2024 while the counterpoup against Elon Musk continues to strike sales in Europe.
Tela’s count is well behind Arch Rival byd, which sold 2,511 cars in the United Kingdom in April, an increase of 650%.
Disastrous performance also meant that it was also left in the dust by the less known Chinese brands Jaecoo and Omoda.
They both belong to the Chinese conglomerate Chery and sold 1,053 and 910 vehicles respectively in April, according to data from the SMMT trade organization, despite the launch only in the United Kingdom last year.
Jaecoo and Omoda offer a mixture of electric vehicles, hybrids and gas cars in the United Kingdom, unlike Tesla, which only sells electric vehicles.
Omoda belongs to Chery in China. Omoda
However, being lapped by two practically unknown Chinese rivals is a sign of the quantity of problems that Tesla is confronted in Europe, its third largest market.
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The car manufacturer faces the collapse of sales across the continent, customers abandoning Tesla in the middle of a reaction on the policy of the CEO Musk.
The approval by the billionaire of the German Far Right Party and the position in the Trump administration has sparked demonstrations in several European cities, Tesla vehicles and exhibition halls being also affected by vandalism and the incendiary fire fire.
Tesla is also faced with renewed competition from electric vehicles of inherited brands such as Volkswagen and Chinese car manufacturers, which develop aggressively in Europe despite the tariffs imposed by the European Union last year.
Tesla’s European brand crisis shows little sign of slowdown.
The figures for the recording of cars in several European countries have shown that Tesla suffering from two -digit reductions in April. This means that the launch of an update version of the Y model, the best -selling car in Tesla, has not stopped falling sales.
In the United Kingdom, Tesla began to offer up to two years of free overeating for certain models of models when he seeks to stop the slide.
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