Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.
Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.
Distinctively so dangerous they cannot be sold in EU.
Oh, not to worry. The most likely pickups for pedestrian and bicyclist fatality in the U.S. are all allowed, for now.
There’s only one reason the cybertruck is banned in the UK that isn’t easily fixed - the requirement for rounded edges that are thicker than the panels on the thing. Changing the indicator color, getting a special drivers license, and going through the import process are all surmountable hurdles if one wanted to, but not that first one. Fortunately, the F150, which kills far more pedestrians due to it’s populatlrity, is an easy substitute if driving vehicles that are dangerous for everyone around them is high on your criteria. Thankfully, the corners on that behemoth are rounded!