Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.
Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.
Nevermind the fact that the car literally tracks everything about you and sends all the data to Tesla HQ. To be fair though, there are no modern cars that meet Mozilla’s privacy standards. Some car companies even track your sexual activity.
The car has privacy settings, that is not true unless you enable it. It will still send a lot of data, but not everything.