Friday Morning Auto News, Jan 12, 2024: Cybertruck to face regulatory hurdles in EU. Tesla Grünheide shuts down plant for 2 weeks. More.

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Thursday Morning Auto News, Jan 11, 2024: BYD builds its own car-carrier ships. Cummins to repair 600,000 cheater Ram trucks. Musk to increase X creator rewards. More

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Wednesday Morning Auto News, Jan 10, 2024: VW and GM lose ground to Chinese EV makers. SEC account ‘hack’ amplifies concerns over security at Musk’s X. Tesla launches updated Model 3 in NA. More.

Tuesday Morning Auto News, Jan 09, 2024: Musk says banning Hamas “was a tough call.” GM’s China sales drop in 2023. BMW hits record sales in 2023. More.

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How is Tesla doing in the Fatherland? Don’t ask.

It’s the new year, so let’s have a look back at the Fatherland I abandoned some 40 years ago, and let’s do that with a heavy emphasis on electric cars. Why? Germany is Europe’s largest car market, Germany is home of world’s second-largest automaker, and it is where Elon Musk built his second overseas factory, in bucolic Grünheide near (but not in) Berlin.

A look at the chart above shows us that Tesla isn’t doing so well in the Fatherland. These are the numbers for December, last month of the quarter and last month of the year, when Tesla usually pulls all-nighters to ship anything that is not nailed down. Not this time.

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