Noooo Germans what are you doing 🥺
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fElon Musk is a fascist scum fuck. Stop giving him government money!
That seems like a good yardstick for how corrupt our politicians are.
I know two people who bought a Tesla a long time ago. Both of them sold theirs because they didn’t want to drive around in a car made by an out-and-out fascist. I also don’t know anyone who would ever buy a Tesla. Just one person who works there, but he’s completely out of his mind.
Once again, this seems to me to be a decision based on “lobbying” by an unscrupulous military figure.
It had seemed profoundly unjust that Elon Musk had so little money and the German public so much. So great was the wrong that direct government intervention to remedy the situation was required.
Likely Tesla being manipulative cunts again.
Like when Canada announced an EV credit was ending, and in the final months tesla claimed 100% of the credit available, with some of their dealerships reporting sales several thousand percent above normal, and would have required selling a vehicle every 30 seconds for a week straight in one dealership.
It's because Tesla is most overpriced, right? Right?
As the article mentions, it's mainly because the "lead" is in terms of brand, not manufacturer. Volkswagen and Stellantis have been granted more of the subsidies, but divided over several brands.
looking at the used market here, it's probably the other way around. they are consistently the cheapest because they don't sell, which means more people can afford them. and i don't know how the germans set in up but here you can also use the incentive for used vehicles, the only criteria being that the household has never had an ev or phev, and that the new vehicle is replacing an old ICE vehicle, if the household had one.