{"id":449818,"date":"2025-09-25T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449818\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:00:12","slug":"tesla-sales-in-august-drop-36-in-eu-amid-rising-competition-political-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449818\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla sales in August drop 36% in EU amid rising competition, political backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong\/>Tesla&#8217;s sales in the EU dropped 36.6% in August on a yearly basis, according to data released on Thursday by the European Automobile Manufacturers&#8217; Association (ACEA).\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s US-based electric vehicle company sold 8,220 units in August in the EU, ACEA&#8217;s report showed, while the figure was at 12,966 in the same month of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The market share of the company dropped to 1.2% in August from 2% in the same month of last year.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, including the EU, the European Free Trade Association, and the UK, Tesla&#8217;s sales also fell 22.5% year-on-year to 14,831 units in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, battery electric car sales soared 30.2% in August to 120,797 units in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Chinese automakers increased their sales 121% year-on-year in August to 43,529 units, according to data from JATO Dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Their market share also doubled to 5.5% compared to the same period of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Also in August, the Chinese car brands outsold Audi and Renault in Europe. \u201cEuropean consumers are responding positively to the growing, competitive line-up from China\u2019s car brands,\u201d Felipe Munoz, Global Analyst at JATO Dynamics, said. \u201cIt appears that these brands have successfully tackled the perception and awareness issues they have experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s sales have been rapidly declining in Europe in recent months due to Musk&#8217;s controversial political stances, his intervention in European politics, and the rapid competition from Chinese brands.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL Tesla&#8217;s sales in the EU dropped 36.6% in August on a yearly basis, according to data released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5340,43731,27997,2000,299,5187,151307,2473,298],"class_list":["post-449818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-anadolu-ajansi","tag-chinese-car-brands","tag-electric-car-sales","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-automobile-manufacturers-association-acea","tag-ev-sales","tag-tesla"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115263650113691795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}