Sales plummeted in Germany after the billionaire expressed his support for the far-right in the country. Sales of Tesla ...

The U.S. electric car company’s sales are sliding across Europe, amid what many see as interference in local affairs by Tesla ...

Before endorsing the far right, he faced escalating disputes over conditions at the carmaker’s Berlin factory.

Tesla, the world’s largest EV maker which has its only European factory in Germany, registered 1,277 new cars in the country in January. That’s the lowest monthly figure seen since July 2021.

In Germany, workers are entitled to full pay for up to six weeks of absence through illness a year. Elon Musk was taken aback last fall by reports of high absenteeism at Tesla’s factory near Berlin.