{"id":82713,"date":"2025-06-02T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82713"},"modified":"2025-06-02T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:55:07","slug":"tesla-sales-crash-france-even-with-new-model-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82713","title":{"rendered":"Tesla (TSLA) sales crash in France even with new Model Y"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The French are saying \u201cnon, merci\u201d to Tesla, as sales crashed to just 700 units in May \u2013 a level not seen in more than three years.<\/p>\n

The Model Y changeover was clearly not the problem.<\/p>\n

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Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that the company has \u201cno demand problem\u201d and that even though Europe is its weakest market, \u201ceveryone is struggling in Europe, there\u2019s no exception.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have already produced\u00a0a report to demonstrate that this is not true<\/a>, but we are now receiving more data from May, which hi<\/span>ghlights Tesla\u2019s growing problems in Europe.<\/p>\n

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France has just released its car registration data for May, confirming that the auto market is down 12%. However, Tesla\u2019s sales were down even more than the rest of the market.<\/p>\n

Tesla delivered only 721 vehicles in France in May \u2013 down 67% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

In Q1, Tesla blamed its poor performance on the lack of Model Y availability due to the design changeover, but it doesn\u2019t have this excuse in Q2, which is now tracking below Q1 in Europe.<\/p>\n

May was Tesla\u2019s worst month of deliveries it has had in the last three years. It\u2019s also even worse than any month of deliveries in the first quarter, despite the new Model Y now being in full production in Gigafactory Berlin and available in France.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ll write a more comprehensive post about Tesla\u2019s sales in Europe once we have data from more countries in May, but it\u2019s not looking good.<\/p>\n

Tesla blamed its terrible performance in Q1 on the Model Y changeover, but we are past that in Q2. Yet, April was worse than January, and now, it looks like May is going to be below February in the whole of Europe.<\/p>\n

The only positive market so far is Norway, and that\u2019s probably due to some of its large existing base of owners in the country updating to the new Model Y, but it will be interesting to see if it\u2019s sustainable through out the rest of the year. I doubt it. Tesla benefited from the Model Y changeover, but I expect the brand damage will also be felt in the popular EV market.<\/p>\n

This result in France in May is particularly interesting because it is even worse than April. I literally have to go back to Q2 2022 to find a quarter when Tesla had a worse second month of a quarter in France.<\/p>\n

It is starting to look like demand collapse.<\/p>\n

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The French are saying \u201cnon, merci\u201d to Tesla, as sales crashed to just 700 units in May \u2013 a level not seen in more than three years. The Model Y changeover was clearly not the problem. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that the company has \u201cno demand problem\u201d and that even though Europe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}