34 percent depreciation after one year and 6,000 miles

Multiple signs from the last two quarters indicate that sales of Tesla vehicles are declining more sharply than ever. The company is struggling to sell the Cybertruck in particular, as its perceived value has started to plunge.

In the first quarter of 2025, Tesla saw the biggest sales decline in its history. A January report showed that its year-over-year sales fell by half in Europe overall and by 70% in Germany despite rising sales of other EV brands. In February, sales dropped by 49% in China as the company reported its lowest numbers since 2022. Last month, Chinese EV automaker BYD outsold Tesla in Europe for the first time.

    • @demunted@lemmy.ml
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      459 days ago

      Never have. The stock market is a glorified casino. Prove me wrong. The entire basis of the stock market is a joke.

      • @redlemace@lemmy.world
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        Maybe you are a bit wrong ;) casino’s use real money. Stock markets don’t. It’s lots of money that just isn’t there. It’s all made up. If you have 5 million shares of $1 it looks like you have 5 million. Try to sell them at once to become that millionair, there is suddenlyy too much for sale, price drops and they become worthless.

        • @Bravo@eviltoast.org
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          The only way in which shares can more-or-less translate to real money at their face value is if you use them as collateral on a loan. This is how rich people are rich: they use their shares to take out loans which provide them with spendable money. Money now is always more valuable than money in the future, due to inflation and opportunity cost, so most rich people are almost always in monumental amounts of debt, but because they were able to spend a bunch of money up-front, they’re able to invest in things that bring them even more money to pay the debt off. Example: if you had the money to buy a house and rent it out to tenants, the rent you receive will EASILY cover the mortgage - the trick is getting the collateral to get a mortgage to begin with.

          The only danger is that banks and lenders write in a clause that if your share prices (ie the collateral the loan relies on) drops below a certain value, you are forced to sell the shares off and give them the proceeds, so that they can recoup at least some of the money they lost on your bad collateral before it devalues completely. This could, theoretically, happen to Musk if $TSLA drops below a certain threshold, which is what half the Internet seems to be hoping for.

          • I really want Tesla stocks to go down enough that it will cost Musk a huge chunk of his wealth. But the stocks have recovered. Although, I think Tesla stocks will continually go down in the future so long as Musk is the CEO. I hope that Musk doesn’t get replaced until his shares tanked drastically!

    • @pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      Its an investor cult. Like Bitcoin. The valuation and the real world tangible value are completely disconnected.

      • Stocks isn’t necessarily done on vibes. You’d be surprised that there is a pattern to the stock market that you can take advantage of to make money. Unlike gambling where there isn’t really much of a chance of winning if you do the math (because a lot of gambling are rigged), with stocks you can make a calculated risk but with surer chance of earning big if you do the proper research on what you’re investing in and the stock market itself. Sure there is insider trading, but most stocks typically go back up again if the fundamentals of the instrument are sound. I mean, how many ordinary people earn six figures or become millionaires from playing casinos in comparison to those who invested in the stock market?

  • Fair Fairy
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    559 days ago

    Musk’s political activities have soured public opinion on the company and contributed to declining global sales.

    That’s not a political opinion. He did a Nazi salute on live tv

  • KayLeadfoot
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    4010 days ago

    This story combines like 3 headlines worth of bad news into one shit sandwich, and man the whole deal tastes like Schadenfreude feels XD

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    The media is no longer interested in putting a positive spin on Tesla, or any other Skum business. Every earnings call is going to be worse than the last one, which will just accelerate the decline. The damage to the brand image is irreparable, and directly attributable to Skum’s irresponsible ego bender, and a brutal shareholder lawsuit is inevitable.

    Tesla will be bankrupt in less than 2 years.

    • @NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
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      159 days ago

      I see the same but cannot for the life of me understand how the stock isn’t shitting the bed. The whole US market is irrational at this stage but Tesla is just ridiculous

      • Lightor
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        I think his wild promise around the self driving taxi is protecting the value some. It’ll never get off the ground though, and I think once that reality hits the stock will tumble again.

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        It’s already down 45% from its high, and it’s never going back. That high was all a delusion, based on nothing but faith in Skum, and now that we know him, people don’t have that same faith.

        The stock is being supported at this level by institutional investors. Every big fund holds a large chunk of Tesla stock, but that will start to change. With each successive disastrous earnings call, the stock will shed more and more investors, and at some point, the big institutional investors will start to dump it, too, and then it will properly crash.

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      Maybe they can make their money back from YouTube videos tipping CyberTruck over cliffs etc

  • @Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    279 days ago

    This won’t change even when he leaves the company. He and his companies are inextricably linked. He is the companies.

    Liquidate Musk

  • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    Hilarious and deserved. They should have built something useful instead of overhyping a truck that can’t do truck things and gets bricked by rain or broken latches.

    • Fair Fairy
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      What sucks - I fund this abomination because as a US citizen I cannot buy cheap byd because they keep them out to prop up Tesla shit

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        Wdym?

        I know they’re not cheap but there are way better options now: Hyundai, Volvo, Rivian, etc are making EVs. Hybrids (especially plugin) are available from some of the most reliable companies, ie Toyota.

  • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    Just passed a Tesla lot today and it was packed full of these trucks, and cars. All were covered in dust.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    I don’t really want one, but I’m tempted to go down and haggle.

    “Really, given how unpopular they are and the unsold inventory, you should pay me to take one. It’s costing you money every day it sits here… Stop the bleeding…”

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    Did u Americans even know there are BYD dealerships all over EU?

    Tesla can’t compete on price and that’s the only metric that matters in capitalism.

    • @reiterationstation@lemm.ee
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      129 days ago

      We aren’t under capitalism anymore. We are transitioning.

      At one point the merchants made more money than kings and that’s why we are under capitalism.

      Now tech has made all of the money, and holds most of it, and so we transition again.

      They don’t care about the old rules, that’s why they are breaking them.

      Musk doesn’t need Tesla. He already has everything he needs to be a borderless king. So he is.

      It’s you and I that need to care about money, but the oligarchs have transitioned from it already and no longer need to care.