Comment on 'Don't Buy a Swasticar': Tesla hit by UK boycott campaign over Elon Musk's far-right support
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt’s true that our drop is a third of Germany and France’s, but it’s also true that they were buying far more Tesla cars to begin with.
In January 2024, Germany bought 3150 Tesla cars, France bought 3118, and the UK bought 1581. They were buying double our amount.
Germany and France’s numbers have now massively dropped, and are now in line with UK numbers.
Our percentage drop is lower only because we were already iffy on Tesla, whereas Germany and France weren’t.
viking@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
France and UK have higher purchase powers than UK, thanks to Brexit, so I wouldn’t put that down to people being more sceptical.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People in the UK are more likely to drive new cars than France, and only just behind Germany.