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Summary

Tesla reported its first annual decline in deliveries, with 1.79 million vehicles delivered in 2024 compared to 1.81 million in 2023.

Fourth-quarter deliveries (495,570) fell short of analyst estimates, causing Tesla shares to drop 7%.

Challenges included rising competition in Europe and China, declining sales despite price cuts, and growing inventory of Cybertrucks.

Analysts cited CEO Elon Musk’s political involvement as a potential distraction.

While Tesla plans to release lower-cost autonomous vehicles in 2025, its lack of affordable EVs and intensified competition have strained its market dominance.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I shake my head at Tesla drivers and throw a hand job gesture to every wankpanzer I see. There isn't enough public shaming of fascists and their enablers.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yesterday, my wife saw a cybertruck for the first time. She went "wtf. Is that fugly thing a cybertruck?" I guess the pictures didn't do it justice.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was maybe a hard vehicle to photograph... Surely it can't be that bad, right? Then I saw one in person and realized the photos made it look good by comparison. ..

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When it's moving, it's worse. I laugh my ass off.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can see the misaligned panels from half a block away

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It looks like a mobile dumpster.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Dumpsters are really good at what they do. This thing could get away with being ugly if it was ugly by necessity

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They really don't. They look like they were drawn by a 7 year old.

My 7 year old thinks they're absolutely great. His reasoning: "because that's exactly how I would design it!" He proceeded to draw a cybertruck indistinguishable from the thing you see in real life. I was horrified, because it proved to me everything I needed to know about the vehicles design.

Elon Musk drew it himself, and told the engineers exactly how to make it. And because he lacks any apparent skill, his drawing ended up looking exactly like a 7-year olds imaginary truck.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah I mentally expected compact car size because they kind of look like those angular shitboxes from the 90s. I think they were geos? But they're like twice as big and four times as shitty.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

It is really the dumbest vehicle made in quite some time.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A lot of people bought these cars before it was obvious who Elon was.

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

The Model 3 released in late 2017, while the "Pedo guy" thing happened in late 2018, and the "420 funding secured" fraud was before the Model 3 even officially entered production. The "FSD in 6 weeks maybe" BS had been going on from the earliest Model S days, and I can give a very comprehensive list of all the massive red flags that'd been waving from when the first Roadster rolled off the line.

I can give a pass to anything earlier than the Model 3, just because it wasn't reported on nearly as much and I don't expect people to follow industry news to the same degree I do, but it was still definitely there for people to see if they wanted to. However, Elon has literally always been a massive piece of shit from day 1, and it's only gone downhill from there and especially after the Model 3 was starting production. Anyone trying to convince themselves they bought their car before that was "obvious" is coping hard.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yes. Exceptions are the new model 3s and wankpanzers. All of these people knew.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I actually like Tesla. I just hate Elon more. We came close to buying a Tesla once or twice, but now it's totally off the table.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I liked Tesla years and years ago too. No more.