Tesla is in serious trouble in Europe. The electrical automobile maker, which as soon as dominated EV gross sales within the area, is dealing with gross sales declines of greater than 50 % in France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and the UK. Gross sales in Germany weren’t fairly as unhealthy—they fell by 46 % in April, with barely smaller decreases in Portugal and Spain. Solely Italy and Norway noticed any type of gross sales progress.

The headwinds have been already wanting unfavorable for Tesla even earlier than CEO Elon Musk threw his lot in with Donald Trump and his authoritarian makeover of the US authorities. A small and outdated product portfolio was already wanting stale in comparison with the inflow of EVs from Chinese language manufacturers and European automakers, however Musk’s hard-right flip and the US authorities’s ongoing antagonism towards the remainder of the world has soured the model totally. And a current styling refresh for the Mannequin Y has did not arrest the slide.

The UK has been certainly one of Tesla’s largest markets in Europe, and it is seeing one thing of an EV increase, with 8.1 % extra BEVs registered in April 2025 than the 12 months earlier than, at the same time as total automotive gross sales have dropped by 10.4 % 12 months on 12 months. However Tesla’s gross sales fell by 62 %—the automaker registered simply 512 vehicles all month. For context, 120,331 new vehicles have been registered within the UK last month, of which 24,558 have been BEVs.