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Tesla · Roadster

Tesla Sets October 1 Roadster Reveal, 9 Years After $250M Deposits

Tesla put October 1 on the Roadster, nine years after collecting $250 million in Founders Series deposits. At least the fourth date since November.

Haye KestelooSep 145 min read

Range Rover Electric SUV plugged into a home wall charger outside a modern desert house at dusk

Jaguar Land Rover

Range Rover's First EV Costs $24,800 More Than the Gas Model

Land Rover's first electric Range Rover packs 542 hp and a 333-mile range claim for $140,550, while its own plug-in hybrid undercuts it by just $9,200.

Damien KestelooSep 2

BYD Dolphin Surf electric hatchback, one of the export models behind BYD's record overseas shipments

BYD

BYD Sales Rise 21.8% in July as Exports Hit a Record, but the 5 Million Target No Longer Adds Up

Exports hit a monthly record and drove a third straight month of growth. Run the arithmetic on the full-year guidance, though, and BYD finishes more than a million vehicles short of its own floor.

Haye KestelooAug 1

Aerial view of rows of Tesla Cybertrucks staged in a lot at Gigafactory Texas

Lawsuit

Tesla's Cybertruck Tooling Is Held By A Supplier That Just Lost A $30 Million Appeal

Court records show Angstrom, the supplier holding Tesla's Cybertruck tooling, lost a $30 million appeal in February and put a subsidiary through Chapter 11.

Haye KestelooJul 28

Vegas Loop

Boring Company Director Puts Real Numbers On The Vegas Loop, Including The One That Undercuts His Own Pitch

Boring Company director Mike Baier says the Vegas Loop hits 40,000 riders on peak days and beats most US light rail. The typical day tells another story.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Robotaxi

Tesla Cybercabs Surface in Charlotte, Giving the Giga Texas Pile Its First Visible Destination

Fourteen Tesla Cybercabs and 14 Model Ys with Texas plates appeared in a Charlotte lot as Tesla hires a safety operator, setting up a race with Waymo.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Lawsuit

Tesla Sues Cybertruck Supplier Over Tooling Locked Inside A Plant It Is Closing

Tesla wants an emergency order to pull Cybertruck tooling from Angstrom Automotive's Troy, Texas plant. Replacement tooling would take five to six months to build.

Haye KestelooJul 25

TELO

Tesla's Founders Bankroll The Anti-Cybertruck, A $41,520 Mini Truck Running Their Original Playbook

Tesla founders Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard are backing TELO's $41,520 MT1 mini truck, a quiet rebuke of the Cybertruck and Musk's robotaxi pivot.

Haye KestelooJul 24

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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