AfD seems to be doing a little too well across the sea for me to believe that
Problem is, AfD voters also don't want to drive Teslas (not because they disagree with Elon's politics, but because "only hippies drive EVs, patriots drive real cars".)
Musk’s problem is that the intersection of “votes AfD” and “willing and able to buy premium electric vehicle” is relatively small
They might see a rebound from last year which was a bad year for them but that's likely driven by some pretty aggressive price cuts.
China is actually nearly 3x bigger market for them than Europe and we have clearer numbers on how that's going:
2026 so far has been shaping up to be a huge contraction. Only 316,251 were shipped in the first 8 months. (BYD sold 440k units in August alone)