Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%

Trump media stock was fun to watch too up until he won. I mean it's still going to crash and burn, but the election bought him some time.

Do you need one?

I recently deleted my PayPal account and use a virtual credit card instead.

So far no issues with paying. In the rare case that credit card is not available you can always pay without account in PayPal via credit card.

Germany tries to make one every two years. The newest one is called Wero/kwitt

And wero from European paiement initiative that regroup all major french and german bank.

Google Pay. Wise and Revolut are money wallet + transfer tools.

In Europe, sepa transfers are free and instant transfers will be mandatory free from October.

To pay in e-commerce, revolut has unlimited one-use cards, no need for PayPal.

Ah, I should have read down further. I'll look those up.

Yes, you are right, not anymore, I don’t trust it though as it was founded by not only Peter Thiel but also Elon Musk.

PayPal blocks accounts that are politically controversial, such as some alternative media outlets, cryptocurrency platforms, or activists. Also Whistleblower organizations like WikiLeaks have been blocked and their funds frozen.

For these reasons I find a boycott completely justified.

Why old Facebook accounts still matter:

-Your past likes, groups, comments, and interactions are stored and can still be used for ad profiling or sold as part of larger datasets.

-If you once liked a brand or a political page, that interest could still be factored into long-term data models.

-If you have active friends, their interactions with your old profile (e.g. tagging you in old posts, mentioning you) can still keep your account relevant to Meta’s algorithms.

-Your friends may have synced their contacts with Facebook, meaning your email or phone number could still be in Meta’s database.

-If you’ve ever used “Log in with Facebook” for third-party apps, Meta can see when and where you log in.

-Even if you don’t actively sign in, Facebook cookies might still track you across other websites (depending on your browser settings).

-Advertisers may have access to archived data that gets combined with current trends.

-Your profile might be included in anonymized datasets used for AI training or market analysis.

That made me wonder, in regard to your question, how much meta really makes out of Facebook accounts like yours.

Out of curiosity I asked Mistral how much an inactive Facebook account might generate daily. It estimated $0.005 but noted it could be even lower. Let’s take a careful guess at $0.001.

Ridiculously low, irrelevant, right?

Well, there are 3 billion Facebook users. Let‘s assume Facebook earns $0.001 for each account, each day.

This would be 3 billion times $0.001 which equals $3,000,000. Daily!

Links:

-The Electronic Frontier Foundation's analysis of Facebook's tracking technologies

-Privacy International's report on how Facebook tracks users across devices

-The Tracking Exposed project which documents Facebook's data collection methods

-ProPublica's series on Facebook's data practices

-The Washington Post's investigation into Facebook's privacy controls

-Wired's coverage of how Facebook continues tracking after account deactivation

Not quite but credit cards and Interac e-Transfer.

In your defense, back then they were the only EV that wasn’t useless.

I have hated Tesla since day 1, but even still I had to admit that they had the only decent EV drivetrain.

What? A Model 3 starts at 42k (without the tax credit) or 299/mo for a lease. That’s below average for new cars in America, or significantly below average if you qualify for the tax credit. KBB says the average for a new car in December 2024 was nearly 50k.

And sure, not everyone can afford a new car, but very few Tesla buyers are “that kind of income” wealthy.

Doesn't make my comment not true.

And I don't filter or block anything or anyone. Rawdogging Lemmy, the way God intended.

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He has family members and toadies on the board

In a normal company they could, but the board are all loyal to him, not the company. Recently they insisted in giving him a 50 BILLION bonus, yes, with B. No chance they will intervene. And putting a puppet CEO like at Twitter won't have a strong effect either.

He'll still retain his shares. Which is the source of his wealth.

For my money I'm going to throw a goddamn party if this cursed stock hits double digits.

Cause everyone at Tesla is a spineless grifter too.

Does that still apply when the CEO is also Emperor of the United States?

You can go to 110% if you burn enough tesla's

This is what makes Musk's B-line towards Nazi stardom so strange to me. Like, did he think Nazis were suddenly going to start buying electric cars? They literally put nuts on their trucks right next to their bumper stickers using homosexual slurs to describe electric vehicles, all while "rolling coal" in front of every Tesla they see on the road.

These are the people you want to market to?
And at the expense of your existing market?

This is why I wouldn't put it past them to try to hide the real sales numbers. Wouldn't surprise me if they're down 90+ percent and the company is effectively dead already. The board of directors are Elon's creatures and their personal wealth will depend on keeping the facade (and stock price) up so they aren't about to cry foul.

Because only rich Ukranians could afford them, and the rich ones fled Ukraine when the war kicked up.

he doesn’t, the american people getting ass fucked in broad daylight

Feel the same way. He basically has the US Treasury now, and can do whatever he wants with his DOGE, I doubt he cares about Tesla.

I don't think he has to care, but I think he might. SpaceX and Tesla are the only 2 brands he regularly promotes as he hopes people forget about all the other stolen, idiotic ideas that have failed.

He has mentioned many times in the past how "owning a Tesla is fiscally responsible". Considering DOGE and falling Tesla sales... it's only a matter of time until he sees if he can push Tesla as "The American Car" subsidised by tax payers and potentially cheaper then other brands (due to tariffs)... I don't put it past him to try to take over all the transportation in the country. He's stopped pretending he isn't just a super villain a while ago, so going out of our way to ensure that the most "affordable" car is his and cripple the nation further by literally controlling the means of transportation.

What makes you think I wasn't verbally critical of him? I was telling ppl that were praising him that he seemed to virtue signal and seemed shady back in 2017. I was told I was looking too much into it. But in retrospect...