Tesla faces a number of challenges in Europe including continued intense competition and brand damage from Elon Musk's political involvement.

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New European car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA.

BYD recorded 13,503 new registrations in July, up 225% annually.

Elon Musk’s automaker faces a number of challenges in Europe, including intense ongoing competition and reputational damage to the brand.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    It connects to your phone in the sense that you can:

    • Make phone calls
    • Receive and send texts (no Whatsapp/signal/telegram or any other kind of app based messaging)
    • Listen to audio, if you manually start the playback on the phone
    • Use your phone hotspot to stream from the built-in Spotify or other streaming services, if you don’t want to pay a $120/year subscription

    But it can’t do basic mirroring like most cars on the market can do.

    In this way, if you want to have traffic info or speed camera alerts, you’re forced to pay for Tesla premium subscription, as there’s no other way to show a third party navigation app on the big screen (except ugly hacks like using the web browser for navigation, which is a safety hazard)

    • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      At $10 or less a month, (It’s $99 for a year, $9.99 for a month) it’s cheaper than using a gig of data on many non-unlimited plans. It’s at least a better deal than the price-equivalent GM OnStar plan for example.

      For Tesla, I believe the only feature locked behind the subscription (won’t work unless subscribed, even with a separate hotspot) other than live traffic is the Tesla-app based bandwidth-intensive stuff like viewing the sentry cameras remotely, but I don’t have a definitive list.

      I think the nav will take traffic into account when navigating, even if you don’t subscribe, but it won’t show you traffic. I’m not sure on that though, it may have been true a while ago and changed.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        In my country I get 150 gb of 5G data for 5.99 a month, so the Tesla premium connectivity subscription is not worth at all

        I already pay for almost unlimited data, and I have a 8 core with 16gb of RAM in my pocket, with all my information on it: the best option is to just mirror my device and let me use my preferred navigation system or use alternative music apps like Tempo.

        It’s inefficient to have a Ryzen class computer in the car just because otherwise the mothership can’t monetize the infotainment

        • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I just wanted to point out that it’s not insane, like some of GM’s OnStar plans for example, the cheapest of which is 9.99 a month.

          Should cars have subscriptions? Fuck no, but I was only trying to post facts, not opinions, in that comment.