Elon Musk cannot blame Tesla’s European crisis in the weaker automotive market. The EV is on sale in record numbers, but it’s falling almost half of his

• Comprehensive new data for all 31 countries across the continent shows that EV volumes rose 28% last month and 28% for the new April best. It would have been even better if Tesla’s 49% sales collapse hadn’t made the results too heavy. The proportion of masks to the European EV market has since shrunk from 9.8% in the previous year to 3.9% in April.

Elon Musk could not have made it even more clear last week. He left Zero’s Room for Interpretation: The only reason Europe is Tesla’s most challenging market, according to the CEO is that the overall demand is very poor.

“That applies to all manufacturers too. There are no exceptions,” he said.It is listedQatar’s Economic Forum completely denies consumersTo move awayFrom Tesla. “The European automotive market is very weak.”

But the way he reached that conclusion is no guess from anyone, given that EVs are selling in record numbers in Europe. They just don’t sports Tesla badges.

Data released on Tuesday showed aggregate demand across the continent, including wealthy non-EU countries such as Norway, Switzerland and the UK, at its all-time highs, both in April and the year.

Registration for the area’s new fully electric vehicle jumped to nearly 184,700 vehicles last month.According to the Industrial Association ACEAThe cumulative figure up to the end of April has increased to over 758,100 units.

Both represent the highest ever in absolute volume, representing a 28% increase in each period. The percentage profit is widely distributed across most markets, with people like Italy doubling EV demand in April.

They would have even had an impressive EV, as they won all across the continent.BetterTesla in the mask didn’t overwhelm them. That’s because it’s his automaker.I couldn’t do anything more different.

European buyers suffer from the case of “Tesla’s shame”

Over all 31 markets, demand for mask vehicles rose 49% in April of the previous year. Only the decline in January was exacerbated by hair. The drop from the start of the year is 39% of the brand.

The Tesla Bulls have argued for months that Musk’s politics were not the result of drops, but the result of Model y’s refreshment. Customers knew in January that a new version would arrive just two months later and that they might have postponed their purchase.

However, the cumulative decline was limited to just 1% in the first four months of the year, but in China Tesla is working under the exact same problem. This is what consumers really say isTesla’s shameIn a country like the Netherlands.

With brands like Volkswagen And Skoda scooped up new customers, and Tesla’s share of the European EV market collapsed from nearly 10% the previous year to around 4% in April. In fact, even sales in China, according to Jato Dynamics, a researcher in the automotive market. byd Excludes completely electric models, namely plug-in hybrids, There are manyIt was from Tesla in Europe last month.

“The meaning is enormous,” said Felipe Munoz, a global analyst at Jato, in a statement. “This is a fork moment for the European automotive market, especially when you consider that Tesla has led the BEV market for many years.”

The industry claims that EV sales may be good, but they aren’t that good.

There is a material delay in ACEA data as it takes time to aggregate all data from 31 different countries. This month, we released the data in April just a few days before the first numbers in May began to squeal. However, there is no third-party source for free public data that will more comprehensively break down European new vehicle registrations by brand or country by country EV demand.

Despite the very strong numbers, the lobby group representing the interests of European automakers in Brussels said that the number of EVs on the continent is not sufficient.

“The battery electric vehicle market share (from the start of the year) was 15.3% in April 2025, but it was still far from where it was expected,” ACEA said in a statement.

The European auto industry is investing its own numbers in hundreds of billions of dollars in EVs, but complains that the EU hasn’t picked up demand quickly enough that the business is as profitable as it sells cars with combustion engines.

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