“I have defended you so over the years, and you make wonderful products, but even I can’t blow up for you anymore,” she said.
Róbertsdóttir, now a software developer for the Icelandic air traffic control business isvia, has begun her technical career as a founder of the Iowa-based Celadon applications. This boot of 2009 has developed electric vehicles software. A prolonged Tesla shareholder, one of her decisions was voted at the Tesla’s annual shareholders’ meeting in 2023 and called on Tesla’s board to release a follow-up plan for Musk and other ‘key people’ whose behavior is at risk for the company can cause and shareholders.
“When people look at this business,” she said at the meeting, “they see the company as a synonym for the CEO.” (The council recommended to reject the resolution, and it was voted properly.)
While some shareholders have already voted with their feet – in January, for example, the Dutch Public Service Pension Fund ABP sold its € 782 million stake in Tesla – still looks uninjured by Musk’s trolling, or its apparent takeover of the US government’s executive branch with the Help of young cders. Musk’s “Pedo Guy” comments against a British Cave Rescue Diver, who was successfully defended in a defamation hearing in 2019, did not struggle with as many shareholder feathers, but it is more difficult to ignore sales Cull calls.
At the end of January, the Minister of Sport and Tourism, Sławomir Nitras, struggled for a Tesla boycott. “There is no justification for any reasonable pole to continue to buy Teslas,” he said.
In Germany, where Musk caused outrage by endorsing the right-wing political party alternative for Germany (AFD), and to appear as a surprise video gas over the past month during the launch of the party’s national election campaign, several companies have ties with Tesla cut. Drugstore chain Rossmann, with 4,700 stores across Europe, replaced Tesla in its electric fleet with other EV brands, referring to the ‘incompatibility’ of its corporate values and Musk’s ideology.
German energy business Lichtblick unveiled a disconnection of Tesla on a LinkedIn post. “We pull the plug to Tesla vehicles in our fleet,” the announcement, with the real estate chief of the firm, Kevin Lütje, explains that “Elon Musk’s support from Donald Trump and his recommendation to vote for a right-wing Populist and right -side -Extremist Party … is in no way compatible with the values of Lichtblick. “He said that” climate protection and electromobility are extremely important to us, but in the future we will rely on other suppliers other than Tesla. “
Such boycotts benefit Tesla’s opponents. “We’ve seen an increase in people who write to us and have switched to Polestar for the past few months,” Wired CEO Michael Lohscheller told Wired. Lohscheller called Musk’s approval of ‘completely unacceptable’.
There are many reasons for Tesla’s diminishing fortune in Europa-inclusive model range (Geely’s Gothenburg-developed Zeekr 7x SUV has more bells and whistles than a model Y) and expenses (a model 3 costs € 39.990 in Europe, while Much better is EVs bite in this price point) -But Musk’s steady descent from the actual Tony Stark to Maga Power Broker seems to be an important reason for Tesla’s current precipitation of grace.
Tesla sales fell by 13 percent across the European Union in 2024, according to the data of the operating body Acea, and just as in Spain and France, the fall in very important markets is still steeper. According to the German Federal Car Transport Authority, in January, Tesla registered only 1.277 new cars in Germany, a drop of 59.5 percent.
Tesla was contacted for this piece and did not respond, but there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for Tesla sales in Europe. A recent recording by the Dutch News Shop One Vandaag received answers from 432 Tesla drivers. Some “31 percent are considering selling their car or has already done it,” the survey found. Forty percent of owners feel embarrassed to own a Tesla. In any case, these are statistics that no car business wants to own.