Second-hand Teslas flood the market as Elon Musk faces British backlash

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/07/second-hand-teslas-flood-market-musk-faces-trump-backlash/

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26 comments

  1. Good. Hitting him in the pockets is the only thing that’ll have any impact on him.

  2. Sales from new are up and the increased used cars will reflect more leases ending.

    We don’t appear to care he’s a fascist.

  3. I don’t get it, he exposed government waste and fraud and it’s the bad guy for doing that?

  4. You’re still likely to use the Tesla dealer for servicing and parts, and often use their charging infrastructure on motorway journey..

  5. The current second hand prices are higher than when I looked 4 months ago. 

  7. Now we have more options, like the Polestar, BYD and Cupra, wouldn’t surprise me if we saw the Asian Market take over.

  8. The Tesla backlash needs to intensify. The downturn in Tesla sales in the UK is rookie numbers compared to other European countries. Anyone still driving one of those things should be a social pariah when the piece of shit who profits most from them wants to destroy our country and turn us all into little better than slaves.

  9. Oh but Canadians just bought 8000 new ones! So it must be fake news.

  10. I know you’d like to believe it’s a protest. But it isn’t.

    This was predicted a few months ago. A lot of fleet cars registered three years were due to be changed. Which would cause a lot of cars to enter the second hand market. Which the fleet and lease companies rely on.

    There is no market for second hand electric cars. People who buy second hand cars won’t touch them.

    The prediction was that it could bring lease companies down.

  11. New Tesla car sales are actually up in the UK, in contrast to everywhere else in Europe where they’re significantly down.

    Would’ve thought we of all people would be more responsive to Nazi-run brands, but I guess not.

  12. For starters fuck Musk because he is a twat and so is his orange friend.

    But I am not sure this is as much to do with him rather its more to do with that EV sales really starting to ramp up after Covid. Many of them were taken out on three or four year lease or PCP agreements which are now ending so they are filtering through to the used car market.

    Tesla were the most popular car at the time so only natural there is a lot of them appearing on the second hand market. Its going to pick up even more so buying a used EV is going to get much easier over the next few years.

  13. The UK is full of deranged woke people. Their country is being overrun by mass uncontrolled immigration yet they stand by and watch. Their culture will be gone in 10 years.

  14. Good time to buy if the prices go low enough for decent used Tesla’s, awesome cars.

  15. Canada is currently investigating a deeply suspicious sales spike of Teslas despite overwhelming negative sentiments against Elon and Tesla for his support of Trump.

    Apparently, over a three-day period, Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles at four locations across the country, resulting in $43 million in government rebates.

    That’s far more than they’ve ever reported over such a short period. Looks like Elons cooking his books.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1j5y5fg/canadian_officials_are_investigating_an_unusual/

  16. I think that democrat who said they should do nothing because the government will collapse in 3 months was right. Trump has shown himself to talk big but then cop out, which the market hates, nothing worse than uncertainty. “I’m putting tariffs on Canada oh but actually that will be really expensive…”

    It’s hysterical to see r/conservatives having a meltdown though – “why does everybody hate us when all we’re doing is treating them like shit?”

  17. GOOD, this is great news

    Maybe I’ll be able to find a cheap Model Y now.

  18. So usually reselling/destroying a product you already bought would be an ineffective protest (because they already got your money), but I guess Tesla must get a lot of money from charging stations and subscriptions? Like HP and ink?

  19. Weird how many Teslas I see out and about. Elon’s always been a moron, the cars are a steaming pile of shite, why?

  20. There are 4800 Teslas on Autotrader according to the article. But over 29000 second hand EVs on the site in total. Someone isn’t telling the whole story.

  21. Tesla tanking will make him float Space X/Starlink. Whatever politics people disagree on, Musk isn’t going broke.

  22. Flood the market kinda bullshit. There’s less than 150 on sale on autotrader in the whole UK that are less than 3 years old. Thsts been decreasing over the last couple years

  23. Gutted that i don’t have driving licence cause these might go super cheap

  24. Stock market valuations on all these tech bro companies are so bizarre. Idiots just keep buying shares in things that either have no real revenue model or, in Tesla’s case, are going to be outperformed by cheaper, better products from companies that have established manufacturing operations.

    I’d hate to be holding the bag when people eventually wise up and everything crashes down to a realistic valuation.

  26. I’m sure it’s just folk trading in ready for the new Tesla Model SS

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