Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
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Tesla met analysts expectations as it sold fewer cars in Q3 2026 than Q3 2025.
Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That’s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099 EVs, and one might think that would be bad news for a company valued on the premise of near-constant growth.
But Tesla stock is up this morning; the year-on-year numbers might look bad, but the company still exceeded analysts’ expectations of 456,600 cars, which would have been a larger 8 percent year-on-year decline.
Total production at Tesla was actually increased year-on-year; it built 464,391 vehicles—a 3.7 percent increase year-on-year—457,387 of which were Models 3 and Y (a 4.9 percent increase year-on-year). The remaining 7,004 were other models, mostly Cybertrucks, with presumably some Semis and Cybercabs, as the Models S and X are now retired; this category saw a 39.8 percent decrease year-on-year.
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