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Tesla's European EV lead further erodes, facing really tough November's in France and Spain as well.

France fell by 33% since the beginning of 25. Spain, meanwhile, is decreasing along along with other countries, such as Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands.

One bright spot for Tesla is Norway, though, which really, if you look at the overall European figure or EU plus other countries figure,

that Norway number in November really, really saved a bad overall number for Tesla.

People in Norway bringing sales forward, purchases forward ahead of new taxes in 2026.

But on a broader view, Tesla's market share across Europe continues to drop losing out in some

ways to Chinese newcomers like BYD, which have doubled or tripled their sales in the last year of EVs.

The administration in the United States wants to weaken the fuel economy rules.

Under the old Biden era, carmakers had to hit 50 MPG for their average fleet by 2031.

Doable, but interesting task for the engineers to work on over the next six years.

The Trump administration reducing that to 34.5 miles per gallon, and that's to be hit by 2031.

They said that this is people being brainwashed. It's a green new scam and that you pay too

much money for cars that don't work as well. So all of the nonsense is being taken out of cars,

was the quote. Germany is nearing two million electric cars as policy shifts by early October.

1.93 million pure beves were registered in Germany,

according to the Central Vehicle Register. That was about 94,000 more than three months earlier,

and means Germany will hit 2 million bebs by the end of the year. Keir is slashing EV prices in the

United States, up to $10,000 off their vehicles like Nero EV, EV6 and

89, and some financing deals in there as well. Volkswagen is shifting how they make EVs.

There'll be a new regional governance plan for production, they say.

22 factories that make Volkswagen Scots, Seitz and Cooper, is organized into regional clusters.

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