{"id":49261,"date":"2025-09-07T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49261\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:09:09","slug":"tesla-and-musk-sell-utopia-while-european-sales-slump-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49261\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla and Musk sell utopia while European sales slump \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tesla\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tesla\">Tesla<\/a>\u2019s car sales continue to slump, yet its latest master plan floats free of such earthly concerns. The negative headlines that greeted the plan \u2013 \u201csounds like AI slop\u201d, \u201ca smorgasbord of vague AI promises\u201d, \u201creads like LLM-generated nonsense\u201d \u2013 were a fair reflection of a document: long on utopia, short on detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Tesla\u2019s 983-word statement promises \u201csustainable abundance\u201d and \u201cinfinite growth\u201d, while saying next to nothing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/electric-vehicles\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/electric-vehicles\">electric vehicles<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Who needs cars when you have Optimus, the humanoid robot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/elon-musk\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> says will eventually account for 80 per cent of the company\u2019s value?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The contrast with earlier manifestos is stark. In 2006 Tesla pledged to fund mass-market EVs through sales of a sports car. Later plans promised trucks, solar roofs and self-driving fleets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Many goals went unmet, but at least they were concrete, as opposed to platitudinous abstractions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile, in August, Tesla registrations plunged 47 per cent in France and 84 per cent in Sweden, even as those EV markets grew. Sales halved in the Netherlands, and fell 42 per cent in Denmark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Across western Europe, Tesla\u2019s market share has slid to 1.7 per cent from 2.5 per cent. And yet, investors remain indulgent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Commentators pointing to the stock\u2019s 12 per cent slide this year miss the wider story: shares are still up by half over the past year, despite multiple big earnings misses and shrinking EV sales. Mock the vagueness, mock the robots, but investors keep lapping it up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The one infinite thing about Tesla, it seems, is investor patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s car sales continue to slump, yet its latest master plan floats free of such earthly concerns. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,1647,19,17,1298],"class_list":{"0":"post-49261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-tesla"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}