Tesla’s Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low

  • Registrations drop 2.3% to less than 14,000 vehicles in April
  • CEO Elon Musk predicted this quarter would be ‘a lot better’
A Tesla dealership in Berlin.Photographer: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg
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Tesla Inc. got off to a sluggish start to the second quarter in Europe, where Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was expecting a much better showing than the first few months of the year.

The carmaker registered just 13,951 vehicles in April, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said Wednesday, down 2.3% from a year ago and its worst tally since January 2023. Tesla’s result was an exception in an otherwise encouraging month for battery-electric vehicle sales, which rose 14% industrywide.