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Autos trade group Mobility Sweden said new vehicle registrations of Tesla models were down 80.7% in April amid a backlash against the political activity of CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla registrations were 203 in April, down from 1,052 a year before.

It was one of the worst-performing automakers for the month in the Nordic country, and sat in contrast to an overall 11% rise in new passenger vehicle registrations to 24,292.

Polestar Automotive, a Swedish electric automaker and one of Tesla's competitors, saw its sales hit 535 in April, an 11.5% increase.

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 146 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yet tesla stock goes up. LOL.

How the fuck is the stock rising?

Oh. Wall Street is a joke. I forgot.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 76 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Tesla stock is up because the board has quietly indicated that they are searching for someone to replace Musk

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Will removing him as CEO really matter? As long as he's as heavily invested in the company as he is, its gains are his gains.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I dubt they can save the company anymore.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Maybe if they pull a Boeing and ~~assassinate~~ the guy bringing their stock down commits suicide...

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Musk loves the letter X, maybe they will make XXX robo cars?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Exactly, and only Musk can make them! And he claims they have the technology NOW, so it will definitely be available NEXT year! It will be the biggest production boost in history EVER!

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 5 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, except it will be just people in robot costumes because his robot tech will only be ready by "next year".

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

More than meats the eye?

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

It matters in the court of public opinion. Most consumers don't understand anything about corporate politics. CEOs are often just fall guys for evil companies.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At this point, my grudge is with the entire board and any investors who didn’t sell their shares when they were over $400 and the CEO was tweeting hate speech and throwing Nazi salutes. Elon can walk away or stay, I don’t care. If you hold Tesla stock, you are either a Nazi or ok with Nazis. I will never pass a Tesla without spitting on it.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I went so far as to trade my S&P500-flavored index funds for large cap value-flavored ones so I could avoid holding TSLA even by association. It's so stupid how that moist waste of carbon-based material turned something as silly as an electric car brand into a political totem of autocracy.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I would never ever buy one, especially when there are better options anyway like Polestar and Rivian

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Traded my Tesla for a Polestar 3. While it does have some weird software quirks and issues, it's overall been great. Tesla has had a long time to polish their software compared to just about everyone else.

I expected software issues from a company still early into their ecosystem, but it's base is Android Automotive so it's not entirely the terrible in car systems like most legacy automakers.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“Quietly indicated.” They intentionally leaked that story to bring up the stock price.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Possible! Companies do things like that all the time

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

hey if they leaked it to see the reaction and it was good, perhaps that’ll seal the deal that they dump musk

… then we continue not to support tesla for all the same reasons because simply kicking him to the curb doesn’t solve any of those issues but now he’s also been fired

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's still the most overvalued stock on the US ticker and it's not even close.

Even in the most charitable reading of the future, Tesla chooses a responsible leader, successfully course-corrects, and becomes "just a car company." The techbro futurist hype goes away, and the value tanks back to reality.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it seems the stock is based on elon musk, and no others, releasing a mass market ready generalized artificial intelligence in the next 6 months.

6 months in musk time is like 25 years from now

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quietly? I literally read about it yesterday right here. Do you mean like they're calling newspapers, but whispering?

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

It wasn't a statement to the press. It was leaked. That means that the whole board likely was not ready to announce it or that they're trying to keep it on the down low, where mostly just investors will see it and act accordingly.

Why does everything have to be an argument?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 day ago

the entire stock market is a made up imaginary scam that all of our companies have forced us to care about by eliminating pension funds as a retirement avenue. i mean. the entire monetary system, but the stock market especially

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yet tesla stock goes up. LOL.

How the fuck is the stock rising?

It's down quite a bit this year:

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s down quite a bit this year:

Yes and that seems to be mostly from the inauguration, Nazi salute and DOGE, january through March.
But if you look from when the tariffs were announced in the start of April, and most of American stock is down in that period. Then Tesla has done pretty well in April compared to most, despite being a company that will be hit hard by the tariffs.

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Gamblers. Shorting the stock is still a show of support. If you don't like Musk, stop betting for or against the stock. Don't be greedy.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

what? shorting the stock is literally the same as selling shares

when you short, you sell someone else’s shares that you don’t own with a promise to buy them back at whatever it costs when you exit your position

(if the price goes up you’re forced to buy for higher and you lose money; if the price goes down you buy for a lower price and you make money)

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 1 points 54 minutes ago

Is the value you're setting your short to still higher than comparable stocks like, say, Toyota's? You're still 'selling' at irrational prices. Algorithms still sees these as market movement and you just serve as insurance policy for Tesla.