@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange
2026-09-18 20:12 UTC
@randahl@mastodon.social hi Randahl, this is common in Norway where Tesla cooks the books. I've written about it before, and I'll write this up as well. The short version:
The chart is only for about 3,100 cars, the first week of March, but it is being labeled the month; OFV's full March count is 17,685 cars with Tesla at 6,150, or 34.8%.
THE OTHER BRANDS OUTSOLD TESLA TWO TO ONE.
It also freezes the crest of Tesla's quarter-end delivery wave, financed by a NOK 50,000 VAT rebate and 0% APR that expired 31 March, after a January in which Tesla registered 83 cars.
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 2026-09-18 20:38
@randahl@mastodon.social looking deeper at it, that first week was cooked by Tesla, which is why the chart was created in such a weird way ignoring all the other days in March. They punched the market by announcing they could cover the NOK 50,000 VAT increase, so that "demand" spike cost Tesla margin, and by May it was raising Model Y prices NOK 10,000 to claw anything it could back. The actual 2026 trend under the spikes is Tesla sales down 11% in a market where Toyota is up 46%.