03/24/2025
Tesla’s Europe sales collapse as anti-Musk backlash growsA Lie, just another lie. What do the Europeans care about American politics, very little. Truth is demand for EV has collapsed and what little there is now focuses on cheap Chinese products.
Tesla’s downward spiral is turning into a rout, with its share of European electric car sales falling by 58 percent in the first two months of this year, dropping from 18.4 percent in 2024 to 7.7 percent for the same period this year, according to data from JATO Dynamics, an auto consulting firm.
To add insult to injury, Chinese electric vehicle brands sold nearly 20,000 vehicles in Europe last month, far outpacing Tesla’s 15,700 units.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/teslas- ... ash-grows/PeakEV, It's been ongoing for over a year now, all well documented here on peakoil-com
January 2025 : Sales of new electric vehicles in Germany plunged last year, official figures showed Monday, as a slow switch to battery-powered cars deepened the woes of the country’s flagship auto industry.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/06/germanys ... olkswagen/Consumer vehicles are one thing, commercial vans and trucks are another, and they never got off the ground.
https://sifted.eu/articles/arrival-sales-collapse-newsWhat ones there were have all gone bankrupt now. These transports, all diesel basically, are what drives the nations, harvests and delivers our food, mines and transports our raw materials. As we go down the other side of the Hubbert bell curve Diesel will get scarcer and scarcer, the cost of goods greater and greater. When all this first arrived in the public consciousness two decades ago there was great concern, and there should still be, but people soon forgot. Many assumed that because the world didn't collapse into anarchy by 2012 that the predictions were false.
Well they weren't false, they just take longer to play out than the average consumer had patience for. 20 years is nothing, the geologists who rang the alarm knew this but when nutjobs like Mike Ruppert of "From the Wilderness" fame got hold of the narrative it all became a Hollywood move, an election cycle. He's long dead, blew his own brains out good old American style but we are still left with depleting Diesel reserves and economies scaling back as a consequence. The EV is built on oil, it's an expensive mode of transport, in oil terms, and this as much as any other factor is what doomed it I believe.
So we are back to square one, in a sense, but well past the "peak" now and accelerating down the oil depletion curve.
Where does the US get most of its diesel?
International Sources. Despite substantial domestic production, the US also imports diesel to meet its demand. Key international sources include Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. Canada is the largest supplier, benefiting from its proximity and robust oil sands industry.
https://www.rossfogg.com/blog/where-doe ... of-diesel/The $US allows this, for now, but it won't last. I suspect the Global lockdown response to Covid and the mauling of distribution lines was a deliberate step in the right direction. It sorted out a lot of frivolous transporting of people and stuff and was a good test case for what is on our horizon. The shutting down of wasteful EV manufacturing is a step in the right direction also. None of these initiatives will be of much use in the long run of course, when the oil reserves we now rely on get scant enough we will lose it all. Certainly the global supply chains that now senselessly move honey from Australia to China while importing Garlic from Mexico.
Two Dead, 14 injured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxVucc2fX-wThe last one to leave this forum please remember to put Adam_B out and turn off the lights.
