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VW Group Profit in 2025 Down by 44% Profit fell from €12.4 billion to €6.9 billion. Operating profit dropped by 54%. Revenue declined by 0.8% to just under €322 billion. In 2025, the VW Group's sales slipped just below the nine million mark – 0.5% less than the previous year. Across all brands, the Volkswagen Group sold almost nine million cars – 0.5% fewer than the previous year. Profit, revenue, and sales fell dramatically, and no stabilization is in sight because the company still hasn't grasped that autonomous vehicles are the future of transportation and is instead trying to push ICE technology. Despite the massive drop in profits, the carmaker is again paying its board members millions in bonuses this year. The decisive factor is the net cash flow, which, surprisingly and thanks to creative accounting, remained above the required levels, thus enabling a payout to top management. This is the worst result in 10 years. The company now plans further cost-cutting measures: around 50,000 jobs are to be eliminated in Germany by 2030. I expect further declines this year, along with layoffs, and plant closures in 2026.
It is unlikely that Elon Musk will approve any expansion of 🇩🇪 Giga Berlin if the IGM Union win a majority in the works council election in March. According to media reports (Handelsblatt) claiming to have a recording of a meeting between Elon Musk and the workforce at Giga Berlin from Wednesday, Elon Musk stated that if the IG Metall union wins a majority on the works council, there will be no expansion of the factory. A majority of the IGM Union in the works council would give the Union influence on many decision about the factory and thus undermines the Tesla Management. I doubt that the Unions will win the election but we'll see.
Tesla is Suing the German Union IGM Tesla accuses an external union representative of secretly recording a works council meeting at 🇩🇪 Giga Berlin on Tuesday. Such internal information has been appearing in the media for years and has been used to portray Tesla in a negative light. As a result, the union representative was excluded from the meeting. The police confiscated his computer and took witness statements. Tesla has filed a criminal complaint against the external IG Metall representative. A Tesla spokeswoman confirmed the information. reuters.com/sustainability… The IGM has been desperately trying to pressure Tesla for years to sign a collective agreement. Tesla refuses to do so, and every vote has resulted in employees rejecting union co-determination. In many cases, the IGM's actions are borderline legal, and now Tesla has taken action for the first time.
🚨The EU Censorship Files, Part II For more than a year, the Committee has been warning that European censorship laws threaten U.S. free speech online. Now, we have proof: Big Tech is censoring Americans’ speech in the U.S., including true information, to comply with Europe’s far-reaching Digital Services Act.
All smoke and mirrors since the beginning. The Robotaxi program is a distraction from Tesla not delivering on the promise of unsupervised self-driving, which it sold to millions of consumer car buyers. It's also meant to boost the $TSLA stock price, as the illusion of leadership in autonomy keeps Tesla's 300 P/E ratio stock alive. Just a few months ago @elonmusk claimed Tesla Robotaxi would cover half the US and 500 cars would be operating in Austin alone. In fact, Tesla is operating only a handful of car at a time and with safety monitor (inside or outside the cars) because its crash rate is way higher than humans otherwise. The small fleet reduces the risk while keeping the illusion that Tesla somehow competes with Waymo.
NEWS: Tesla has officially discontinued Autopilot in the U.S. and Canada. All new car purchases now come standard with Traffic-Aware Cruise Control. The online configurator has now been updated to allow buyers to choose the $99/month FSD subscription, while still offering the option to purchase FSD outright for $8,000 until February 14th. New Tesla vehicles purchases still come with a 30-day free trial of FSD (Supervised).
NEWS: Tesla has started to inform customers in the U.S. that free FSD transfer will end on March 31, 2026. Tesla has previously said free FSD transfers would end “that quarter,” but this is the first time in many quarters they’ve communicated a specific end date. Time will tell if this is truly the final quarter. There are only 28 days left to buy FSD outright. After that, Tesla will make it subscription-only.
