{"id":298445,"date":"2025-03-22T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=298445"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:05:49","slug":"elon-musk-faces-backlash-after-manipulating-tesla-survey-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-faces-backlash-after-manipulating-tesla-survey-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Faces Backlash After Manipulating Tesla Survey in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk recently drew attention for sharing a manipulated survey that inaccurately portrayed an optimistic view of Tesla&#8217;s standing in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the electric vehicle (EV) market experiencing a robust overall growth of 27% in 2023, Tesla&#8217;s sales plummeted by 41% during the same period. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/teslas-sales-in-germany-plummet-76-as-electric-vehicle-demand-declines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"This decline has only worsened, with a staggering 70% drop in sales reported in the first two months of 2025.\">This decline has only worsened, with a staggering 70% drop in sales reported in the first two months of 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sharp downturn in Tesla&#8217;s sales can largely be attributed to Musk&#8217;s diminishing credibility in Germany, driven by his controversial involvement in local elections and his vocal support for far-right political factions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"art\" dir=\"ltr\">???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LVRRqYVESB\">https:\/\/t.co\/LVRRqYVESB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1902040892023734758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201c70% of people in Germany would buy a Tesla again\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As consumers become increasingly disenchanted with the brand, a recent survey conducted by T-Online revealed that a mere 3% of German respondents said they would consider purchasing a Tesla vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk&#8217;s attempt to reshape this narrative by sharing a version of the survey claiming that \u201c70% of people in Germany would buy a Tesla again\u201d raised eyebrows across the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Tesla suffering from Musk taking on government role? | DW News\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKncjaAKzAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Investigations have uncovered that 253,000 votes in this version of the survey originated from just two IP addresses in the U.S.<\/strong>, suggesting a clear manipulation of the results. Following these revelations, T-Online was compelled to shut down the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>With Tesla currently struggling to sell more than 1,000 vehicles a month in Germany, the company&#8217;s desperation is palpable<\/strong>. The manipulation of survey results to project a false sense of consumer interest not only undermines public trust but highlights the uphill battle Tesla faces in regaining its foothold in a rapidly evolving and competitive EV market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk recently drew attention for sharing a manipulated survey that inaccurately portrayed an optimistic view of Tesla&#8217;s standing in Germany. Despite the electric vehicle (EV) market experiencing a robust overall growth of 27% in 2023, Tesla&#8217;s sales plummeted by 41% during the same period. This decline has only worsened, with a staggering 70% drop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-faces-backlash-after-manipulating-tesla-survey-in-germany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elon Musk Faces Backlash After Manipulating Tesla Survey in Germany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":296607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1434,8319,1471],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6849],"class_list":["post-298445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-ev","tag-tesla","content-category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308610,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298445\/revisions\/308610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298445"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=298445"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=298445"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=298445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}