April was a good month in Germany. Passenger vehicle registrations jumped one fifth in Europe’s largest auto market. What did people buy? Mostly gasoline-powered cars, sales of the allegedly dead vehicles jumped 18.6% YOY. The second-best seller was hybrid cars, up a strong 26.4%. Battery-electric vehicles weren’t part of the party, BEV registrations flatlined at 0.2%.
For Tesla, April was a disastrous month. The proud owner of a factory near Berlin was down a gut-wrenching 32% YOY in April. Tesla moved only 1,637 units in the month, which landed them among the also-rans, out-sold by the dinosaurs Elon Musk vowed to disrupt.
