(BFM Stock Exchange) – The American automaker specializing in electricity is under pressure at Wall Street while its world sales fell 13% in the first quarter.

Tesla suffers from Wall Street. The action of the car manufacturer is down 3.25%, after dropping by more than 6% in the first exchanges on Wednesday, April 2.

The figures announced by the automotive group specializing in electricity and led by Elon Musk tense the market. Over the first three months of the year, Tesla deliveries fell from 13% to 336,681 vehicles against 386,810 units during the same period in 2024.

This level of deliveries is also lower than market expectations. In early March, the UBS bank had lowered its forecasting of Tesla car deliveries for the first quarter, to 367,000 vehicles against 437,000 previously.

A series of counter-performance

These figures succeed, in fact, bad sales in Europe, where Tesla registrations fell 45.2% (including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway) in January. In China, the group also suffers, with sales that collapsed in February. According to figures cited by Royal Bank of Canada, the number of vehicles sold over the second month of the year has established 3,911 units, marking a dive of 87% over a year.

“This figure marks the lowest monthly sales of Tesla since August 2022. On the other hand, the Chinese competitor byd recorded an increase in sales of 90% in annual shift during the same period, reaching 614,679 units,” said Royal Bank of Canada.

Tesla is penalized by an aging range of products. The group has promised that new “more affordable” models would be launched this year.

Compared to her heights affected in December, when Tesla had been swept through a post-election rally by Donald Trump in the White House, the manufacturer’s action now loses 45%.

She also could be weighed down by the political ambitions of Elon Musk, who decided to pilot an unofficial department in Washington to cut the ax in the expenditure of the American federal state. This department is called DOGE for “Department of Government Efficiency”.

“In short, the word ‘balance’ failed in Elon Musk and its ability to direct Tesla as managing director … instead of concentrating all its energy and its time leading its Doge initiative within the Trump administration,” deplored in a recent Dan Ives note of Wedbush.