In the European Union (EU) countries, Tesla branded automobile sales decreased by 45 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year.
European Automobile Producers Association (ACEA) announced the new automobile registration data of the European countries on the January-March period.
Accordingly, Tesla’s automobile sales, owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, declined in EU countries. Tesla sales, which was 28 thousand 463 units in March last year, fell by 36 percent in the same period of this year and decreased to 18 thousand 224.
The share of the brand in the EU’s total new automobile sales in March decreased from 2.8 percent to 1.8 percent.
Tesla’s sale in EU countries in January-March period decreased by 45 percent compared to the same period last year.
Tesla sales, which was 65 thousand 774 in the first quarter of last year, fell to 36 thousand 167 in the first quarter of this year. The total share of the company in the EU market fell from 2.4 percent to 1.3 percent.
On the other hand, in the EU countries in the first quarter of electric car sales compared to the same period of the previous year increased by 23.9 percent to 412 thousand 997. Thus, the share of electric cars in total sales in the first quarter reached 15.2 percent.
Tesla’s sales in European countries have been rapidly stretching in recent years.
Musk, US President Donald Trump at the beginning of the task of the beginning of the task and likely to the Nazi greetings on the Internet, such as the controversial behaviors, such as the explicit support of the far -right politicians in Germany and the interference of the British politics of the European policy causes the company to put distance between the company.
