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Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116295996799498988
Most of these 500+ comments are rightfully complaining about the lack of price transparency and easy payment methods on public chargers, as well as price discrimination practised mainly by German charging point operators.
The @EUCommission 'Have Your Say' call for evidence on the #AFIR (the public #EV charging regulation), which is the first step before a public consultation leading up to its review in late 2026, has already received over 500 comments in just three days!
It seems that Germany is finally taking action against price discrimination in public EV charging. Although there is an EU regulation (#AFIR), it was not yet applicable from a German legal perspective. A number of legislative amendments are intended to close that loophole.
„Elon Musks Unterstützung für Alice Weidel hat einer Studie zufolge zwar die Tesla-Nachfrage in AfD-starken Kreisen erhöht. Auf ganz Deutschland bezogen sieht der Effekt aber anders aus.“
„Der Einsatz des Tesla-Chefs für die Partei kostete den Autohersteller im ersten Halbjahr 2025 mindestens 241 Millionen Euro, zeigt eine Innsbrucker Studie“
Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."
