Tesla faces unprecedented resistance.
Protests occurred in showrooms and vandalism against Tesla cars due to CEO Elon Musk’s affiliation with President Donald Trump and other far-right parties. Musk has also been the driving force behind the Ministry of Government Efficiency, with his government programs sacking federal workers on a massive scale and potential cuts to social security in the future. Of course, I threw away a so-called “Rome tribute“The gestures also affected Tesla’s sales.
Boycott leads to a drop in Tesla’s electric vehicle sales Up to 76% In certain markets. But it’s not just Tesla’s potential customers stay away from the company. Tesla owners want it now, too.
Tesla lost $1.4 billion in some way
according to New data From March 2025, Tesla Trading Company has the highest monthly share among online car inventory platform Edmunds. The driver made a deal this month with a record Tesla vehicle. As of March 15, Tesla models or new models in 2017 have accounted for 1.4% of all traded vehicles.
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Compared to March last year, Tesla cars accounted for only 0.4% of the deal. Additionally, Edmunds analysts said that this number could rise with results in the second half of this month and they have obtained more trading data.
Edmunds said that in February 2025, Tesla accounted for 1.2% of all trade, so the figures for this month have surpassed the figures last month, and there is still a lot of time left. According to Edmunds, this data does not include trades used for new Tesla purchases, so these are not cases where customers trade new Tesla cars.
Edmunds data also suggests that interest in buying new Tesla cars has dropped to its lowest level since October 2022. Car buyers who are considering using Tesla cars now make up 1.8% of shoppers. It previously peaked at 3.3% in November last year.
As for the people who Tesla owners want to sell their electric cars Previous reports How is the price of Tesla users’ cars surrounded by musk? On average, the price of used Tesla cars fell by 10%, which is a much lower value than used cars made by other car brands.
