Tesla skipped the most important shareholder question on its earnings call
Tesla skipped the most important shareholder question on its earnings call

Tesla skipped one of its top shareholder questions on its Q3 2026 earnings call: when Hardware 3 owners will find out if they get a free computer upgrade for the unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” they paid for.

The question ranked fifth by shares on …

Tesla now says it needs its own maps for FSD after years of dismissing maps
Tesla now says it needs its own maps for FSD after years of dismissing maps

Tesla says it’s building its own maps to fix some of the most common problems with its “Full Self-Driving” system, including reading speed limits, parking, and choosing routes. The company’s head of AI described the effort on Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings c…

Tesla (TSLA) quietly cuts 2026 capex guidance to $20B
Tesla (TSLA) quietly cuts 2026 capex guidance to $20B

Tesla has lowered its 2026 capital spending forecast. In its Q3 10-Q, the company now says it expects capital expenditures “to be in excess of $20 billion in 2026,” down from the “more than $25 billion” it had guided since April.

The change was in t…

Tesla energy revenue drops 16% as it refunds customers over tariffs
Tesla energy revenue drops 16% as it refunds customers over tariffs

Tesla’s energy business deployed more batteries in Q3 2026 but brought in less money. Energy generation and storage revenue fell 16% year-over-year to $2.88 billion, even though storage deployments rose 10% to 13.7 GWh.

Tesla’s shareholder letter bl…

Tesla FSD ‘subscriptions’ hit 1.74M, counted the way Musk’s pay package wants
Tesla FSD ‘subscriptions’ hit 1.74M, counted the way Musk’s pay package wants

Tesla says it now has 1.74 million active “Full Self-Driving” subscriptions, up 67% from a year ago. A footnote in its Q3 2026 shareholder letter explains how it gets there: the metric follows “our 2025 CEO Performance Award” and “includes both upfront…

Tesla blames battery supply for flat sales, but its prices keep falling
Tesla blames battery supply for flat sales, but its prices keep falling

Tesla says battery supply, not demand, is what’s holding back its car sales. In its Q3 2026 shareholder letter, the automaker wrote that “battery availability continued to be the limiting factor in increasing auto volumes in the quarter.”

It also cl…

Tesla (TSLA) releases Q3 2026 financial results: margins rebound, profit still falls
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q3 2026 financial results: margins rebound, profit still falls

Tesla (TSLA) released its financial results and shareholders’ letter for the third quarter (Q3) 2026 after market close today. We’re updating this post with all the details from the financial results, shareholders’ letter, and the conference call later…

Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 earnings preview: flat revenue, falling profits
Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 earnings preview: flat revenue, falling profits

Tesla reports its third-quarter 2026 financial results tomorrow, October 21, after the market closes. The earnings call follows at 5:30 p.m. ET.

Wall Street expects revenue to come in flat and earnings per share to drop 10% from a year ago, even tho…

Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger
Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger

Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s b…

Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 deliveries slip 2% to 486,532, but beat estimates
Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 deliveries slip 2% to 486,532, but beat estimates

Tesla (TSLA) delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, down 2.1% from the record 497,099 it delivered in the same quarter last year.

That’s still about 25,000 more than Wall Street expected, with the consensus at 461,974 deliveries. T…