Obviously but there are also some other advantages I assume. These imports must come from/via somewhere, it’s the hypocrisy that we*'re not supposed to import much from China or accept any Chinese companies that is a tad annoying. Or it depends on who is doing it.
*“we” in the EU
For instance my home country has refused many Chinese companies because we’re stupid (some would say more Catholic than the Pope) whereas other countries also from EU have been doing business with China undisturbed by any EU recommendations etc. Anyway, it is off topic I suppose.
A new study of company brand reputations in the US
In 2021, SpaceX was ranked no. 5 and Tesla was ranked no. 8, with scores of 81.1 and 80.2, respectively.
By 2025, SpaceX is ranked at no. 86 and Tesla is ranked at no. 95, with scores of 66.4 and 61.3, respectively.
Twitter is on the boundary between poor and very poor
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/axios-harris-poll-company-reputation-ranking
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/axios-harris-poll-tesla-spacex-elon-musk
NL is the primary location for imports into Europe and is now very specialized and has huge expertise in all aspects of logistics including providing legal representation services.
AFAIK, NL is also one of the EU countries with a “smoother” bureaucracy.
The joke is that after you register a company in Germany, the first thing you get is a visit from the fire department to check if you have a fire extinguisher and the emergency exits are properly labeled 
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Elon announcement that self driving taxi service will be launched end of June in Austin, later than hoped but good to have a definite date
Long time Tesla fan gets gloomy
Forecasts a total collapse
Sales flat in China week ending May 25th and below 2024, probably due to strong competition and Trump’s trade war and not due to Elon himself.
It’s also because China’s economy is going down the drain. People are losing confidence and delay expensive purchases like a car.
Apple will produce all of 2026’s iPhones for the US outside of China (mostly India). That’s a lot of phones that won’t be made in China and that won’t keep Chinese factory workers and engineers employed.
And that’s just Apple. A lot of companies are relocating their outsourced production elsewhere, currently.
This is causing extreme measures with EV price cuts
Meanwhile Tesla shares TSLA closed up nearly 7% at $362.89 last night.
I sold yesterday +32% in 25 months allowing for the fall in the US$…
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Remember all those people saying Trump cutting energy credits would benefit Tesla?
Tesla late Wednesday criticized the Republican megabill for gutting clean energy tax credits, a message amplified by CEO Elon Musk hours after he announced he was leaving the Trump administration.
“Abruptly ending the energy tax credits would threaten America’s energy independence and the reliability of our grid,” Tesla Energy, the company’s solar and battery division, wrote on X.
Musk later amplified the message on his personal X account, along with a post from another user that said “slashing solar energy credits is unjust.”
“There is no change to tax incentives for oil & gas, just EV/solar,” Musk wrote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/29/musk-tesla-blast-gop-end-clean-energy-tax-credits-00374074
According to this site, total China EV sales are well above the same period last year although down vs the last half of 2024
Tesla China sales up again last week at 13,000 but still below last year
They are also facing the somehow unfair situation that hits all technical innovators, new competitive products are a generation ahead and will require Tesla facing major costs to revamp their factories.
For example: Chinese automaker, Changan, has just announced plans to introduce a vehicle with a solid-state battery.
This new car offers an unprecedented 932-mile range on just one charge.
MSN.
One bright spot, Tesla delveries in Norway in May trebled.
Tesla registered 8,640 vehicles last week in China, down 33.7% from 13,040 units the week before, and fell 28.00% from 12,000 units in the same week last year.
