Elon Musk, the White House chief adviser, CEO of Tesla and Spacex, attends a meeting in the cabinet held by US President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Timing The stocks fell about 6 % on Wednesday, as data from Europe showed the slowdown last month, and investors fell increasingly President Donald Trump A plan for definitions.
The European Car Manufacturers Association (ACEA) revealed on Tuesday that Tesla witnessed a decrease of 40 % on an annual basis in new vehicle records in Europe in February, while total electric car sales increased by 26 %.
Meanwhile, the White House He said On Wednesday, President Trump will announce a new tariff on car imports in the afternoon. The President falsified April 2 as “Liberation Day” and “The Big One” to put his plan to impose heavy definitions on foreign trade partners, but Trump alluded earlier this week that the car tariff may arrive soon.
The movements of this size have become common for Tesla stock. On 14 separate days this year, I gained Tesla shares or lost at least 5 %. Sell on Wednesday, along with a 2 % decrease on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, follows a five -day march that included a 12 % jump on Monday.
The trend for this year was a decline, especially since President Trump began his second term in January, and brought the CEO of Tesla. Elon Musk With him to the White House. As of the middle of Wednesday, Tesla has been trading by 36 % since the opening day, after it decreased by 28 % in February, a sharp decrease for any month since December 2022.
In the wake of the ACEA report on Tuesday, RBC analysts wrote in note that the February numbers not only a decrease of about 11,000 records in Tesla vehicles in Europe, and confirmed that the data for this month “may not be an indication of real demand.”
Analysts said that new car buyers in Europe “can stand up to update the model Y” or “a new price with reasonable prices”, which they expect in the second half of the year.
Tesla has been assigned to increase the production of the fully -designed version of the YOV next month. The company implemented partial production in some factories earlier this year to upgrade Y.
Some potential EV buyers have been suspended recently due to Musa's political speech and his work in the Trump administration, as it leads an effort to reduce spending on the federal government, and to reduce the federal workforce, and he said he wanted to privatize many services, Including social security.
William Blair analysts wrote in a memorandum on Wednesday that “a reaction from Musk's invasion to politics” has led to “the damage of the brand to sabotage”, to be at a time when the company's supplies were affected by its model, and “competing with the Chinese competition.”
However, the company maintained a recommendation to buy it on Tesla shares, indicating growth in the company's energy storage, and its prospects without a driver. Musk promised that Tesla will start a roboti service in Austin in June. The company has not yet started producing a dedicated robotics, called it ” Cybercab.
alphabet Waymo is already working on a commercial robotics service in Austin and other markets. In China, many car manufacturers now offer the supervision of the full-driving fully-driving company-a partially automated driving system-standard options instead of paid service.
In China this week, Tesla re -named its FSD system.Driving with smart help“According to CNEVPOST, after I previously described it as” the full ability to control self -control. “The Tesla system in all markets still requires a person on the wheel, ready to guide or brake at any time.
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