{"id":327511,"date":"2024-05-08T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327511"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T10:45:55","slug":"the-german-e-vehicle-nightmare-2024-q1-sales-plummet-14-graveyard-for-unsold-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327511","title":{"rendered":"The German E-Vehicle Nightmare, 2024 Q1 Sales Plummet 14%\u2026 \u201cGraveyard\u201d For Unsold Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Der Spiegel reports<\/a>: Germany e-car industry is a crisis headed for a catastrophe. New Tesla unsold cars now being parked in an old airfield.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s 2030 e-car target now a lunatic fantasy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sales of e-cars in Germany are plummeting, signaling more trouble for the country\u2019s move to a green society. Overall, for Q1 2024, EV sales declined by around 14.1% compared to Q1 of 2023. For Tesla, the picture is much uglier.<\/p>\n\n\n

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AI generated image of an e-car.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Just days ago, leftist online news magazine Der Spiegel published a video report looking at Tesla sales in Germany: \u201cFriedhof der E-Autos \u2013 Die Mobilit\u00e4t der Zukunft steckt in der Krise<\/em><\/a>\u201d (Graveyard of e-cars \u2013 the mobility of the future is stuck in crisis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the country would like to blame something else other than its terrible policies, this misery is not due to the Ukraine War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Spiegel reports, The cars are just too expensive and impractical, and the government has stopped subsidizing sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

35% drop in Tesla new registrations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Der Spiegel focusses on Tesla\u2019s Gigafactory located in Gr\u00fcnheide, roughly 30 kilometers southeast of central Berlin. The once electrifying future for the e-car maker has since turned into a huge nightmare. Though the Gr\u00fcnheide plant continues to churn out e-cars, Der Spiegel looks at where the 100s of truckloads of e-cars are in fact being being shipped. Unfortunately for Tesla, many are not going to buying customers.\u00a0 In Q1 of 2023, 20,000 new Teslas were registered in Germany, according to Der Spiegel. But this year in Q1, only 13,000 were registered \u2013 a whopping 35% drop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storage at an old airfield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Der Spiegel reporters followed the Tesla transport trucks and discovered that many are being shipped to an old airfield for storage. In the report, a Tesla security officer, however, arrives (in an internal combustion engine car) and refuses Spiegel to make photos of the embarrassing situation (4:24 mark). Tesla management refuse to comment on the mass electric car storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall in Germany, e-cars of just about every type have lost their attractiveness, and buyers are shunning them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the popularity of electric cars in Germany tanks, the governments 2030 target of getting 15 million e-vehicles on the road now looks like a lunatic fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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