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Tesla Semi Wins Over a Million-Mile Skeptic Who Still Picks Diesel

FreightWaves' Adam Wingfield called the Tesla Semi overhyped for three years. Loaded, it lost 1 mph on a climb. He still picks diesel for long haul.

Haye KestelooOct 65 min read

Thomas of GTS Car Life standing beside his white Tesla Model Y Performance in a parking lot at dusk

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Seven-Time Porsche Owner Sells 911 GTS and Taycan for Three Teslas

A 20-year car-business veteran and driving instructor swapped a 911 GTS and a Taycan for three Teslas. The 510 hp he quotes is 50 more than Tesla lists.

Haye KestelooOct 6

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Australia

Mazda CX-6e Swears at Pedestrians for You. NHTSA Wouldn't Allow It

Australian testers found the Mazda CX-6e reads any typed message, profanity included, through its front speaker. NHTSA pulled Tesla's Boombox for less.

Haye KestelooOct 5

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Supercharging

Tesla Says Five Sessions a Day Halve a Supercharger's Energy Cost

Tesla's new guide for Supercharger for Business buyers explains demand charges, and why a $940,000 site only pays off once the stalls stay busy.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Lucid

Lucid Cosmos Caught Testing on US-101 as Lucid Builds 38% Fewer Cars

A camouflaged Lucid Cosmos prototype was photographed on US-101 in Morgan Hill, California, two months after Lucid pushed the SUV to the second half of 2027.

Haye KestelooOct 5

White Tesla Model Y driving across a bridge with a city skyline in the distance

FSD

Jason Oppenheim Buys Staff 10 Teslas on an FSD Stat Tesla Never Made

The Selling Sunset broker ditched his Bentley and is buying 10 employees Teslas with FSD. One of his safety numbers is Tesla's own. The other two are not.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Black Tesla Model 3 Performance plugged in at a Tesla Supercharger stall

Supercharging

Tesla Lets You Flee a Supercharger Mid-Charge After Idaho Shooting

Emergency Drive Away lets a plugged-in Tesla shift into Drive after the Twin Falls shooting. It wrecks the charge port, and repairs can hit $25,000.

Haye KestelooOct 3

Charging

EVgo's 750-kW Charger Slips to 2027, and No US EV Can Take It Yet

EVgo previewed a 750-kW charging system built with Delta that shares power between cars. Its own August release expected the first units by end of 2026.

Damien KestelooOct 1

The crown

BYD retook the global EV sales lead from Tesla in Q2 2026 — with quarterly sales that themselves shrank 8%

Robotaxi, actually

Cybercabs surfaced in Charlotte — the Giga Texas production pile's first visible destination

Bright spots

Tesla posted its best June ever in the UK as EVs took 30% of that market

The long wheelbase play

Model Y Long Wheelbase arrived in the US at $61,990 — the six-seater answer to family-SUV money

Tesla is EVXL’s largest single beat, and we cover it the way the numbers deserve: without fandom, without doom, market by market.

The defining story of 2026 is the crown changing heads: BYD retook the global EV lead with quarterly sales that shrank 8% — a race of managed declines at the top of a growing market. Tesla’s answer is uneven by geography: a best-ever June in the UK as EVs hit 30% share, softer numbers elsewhere, and product stretched to hold families — the Model Y Long Wheelbase at $61,990.

The robotaxi program has left the slideware phase: Cybercabs surfaced in Charlotte, giving the Giga Texas pile its first visible destination. The messier corners get covered too: Cybertruck tooling sits with a supplier that just lost a $30 million appeal, and the Boring Company’s Vegas Loop finally put real numbers on the table.

The competitive frame lives on the BYD and China desks, and the disclosure trail on the SEC desk. Every Tesla story lands in the feed below.

Is Tesla still the biggest EV maker?

By quarterly sales, no — BYD retook the global crown in Q2 2026, and the sharper point is that it did so with sales that themselves shrank 8%. The race is now two companies managing decline against each other in a market that keeps growing underneath them.

Is the Tesla robotaxi real?

Increasingly, visibly: Cybercabs have surfaced in Charlotte, the first public destination for the vehicles piling up at Giga Texas. Scale and economics are the open questions, and we report the numbers as they surface rather than the promises.

How are Tesla sales actually doing?

Uneven by market, which is why single-number takes mislead: a best-ever June in the UK with EVs at 30% share, softer results elsewhere, and a product line being stretched — the $61,990 long-wheelbase Model Y — to hold families who would otherwise leave.

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