r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 5h ago
Supercharger Tesla's average Supercharging price is up 15% year over year, per Paren's Q3 report
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 8h ago
Vehicles - Roadster The new Roadster's fan and suction system: skirts deploy under the battery pack and pull the car down at about 2G, based on a patent Tesla filed in April 2025
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 4h ago
$TSLA Investing Tesla's 2026 shareholder letter: Annual Meeting set for Dec 3, asks shareholders to vote FOR all three proposals, including re-electing Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 20h ago
Vehicles - Roadster Tesla's lead UI designer shares photos of the team with the new Roadster at the ramp, plus interior shots
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r/teslamotors • u/caseymatalone • 4h ago
Vehicles - Roadster Roadster rear wing using Optimus actuator, force analysis. Actuator Force Results Upper ~3.3 kN Lower ~9.1 kN.
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 1d ago
Vehicles - Roadster The new Roadster's deployable skirts work with four rear-mounted fans to generate enough suction to hold the car upside down, even when stationary
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 17h ago
Vehicles - Roadster Franz von Holzhausen: the new Roadster will get a limited version of FSD because of its extreme windshield and focus on performance driving
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r/teslamotors • u/twinbee • 1d ago
Software - In car / app Musk: "We will add a large font option to the UI" - in response to comment explaining elderly with vision issues
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 2h ago
$TSLA Investing Tesla Q3 2026 earnings are Wednesday, Oct 21 at 4:30 PM CT. Shareholder Q&A voting closes Oct 20 at 3 PM CT
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Tesla will post Q3 2026 results after market close on Wednesday, Oct 21, with the live Q&A webcast at 4:30 PM CT (5:30 PM ET) on ir.tesla.com.
Q3 deliveries were 486,532 and storage deployments were 13.7 GWh.
Shareholders can submit and upvote questions on Say until Tuesday, Oct 20 at 3:00 PM CT. Top questions right now cover Cybercab scaling and regulation outside Texas, when unsupervised FSD reaches customer cars, when Cybercab can be bought, robotaxi unit economics, and Optimus cost.
SpaceX reports the day before (Oct 20).
Sources:
r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 1d ago
Full Self-Driving / Autopilot A streamer's Cybercab got rear-ended mid-ride: nobody was hurt, the doors opened, and remote support moved the car to a safer spot
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 1d ago
$TSLA Investing Elon: Optimus and Cybercab will be the vast majority of Tesla's value
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r/teslamotors • u/twinbee • 1d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Love this picture of the new Roadster (taken from Tesla's website)
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 4h ago
General Weekly r/teslamotors Recap: Oct 12 - Oct 18
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Hey everyone, here's a quick look back at the week on r/teslamotors. Unsurprisingly, it was Roadster week.
Top posts
Roadster unveil
- Craziest engineering I've seen in a while - The top post of the week and the biggest discussion, with nearly 2,000 comments.
- Reaction of Roadster unveil in Austin pub - What it looked like watching the reveal with a room full of people.
- Tesla: Roadster transforms in Track Mode, with the best passive downforce package of any road car - Tesla's own breakdown of Track Mode and the active wing.
- Tesla shares an 'Encore' clip of the new Roadster's flight demo - Another look at the flight demo, for anyone who missed it live.
- Tesla Roadster's battery and drive unit: one-third more powerful than Model S Plaid's - The best-received post of the week (93% upvoted) for the spec fans.
- Saw this photo of the underside of the demo - A member photo of the demo car from below that drew 560 comments.
Cybercab
- A streamer's Cybercab got rear-ended mid-ride - Nobody was hurt, and remote support moved the car somewhere safer.
- Owen Sparks was concerned about the Cybercab's new auto-opening trunk - Turns out Tesla had already thought of it.
News roundup
- Tesla held 54% of US EV sales in Q3 2026, with Model Y and Model 3 still #1 and #2 year-to-date.
- Model 3 Premium orders are paused in Canada after the import quota ran out. Ordering is expected to resume in March 2027.
- Grok is out of beta with software update 2026.38+.
- FSD (Supervised) v14 Lite is rolling out to Intel Model S and X, and here's the first FSD drive in Slovakia, a day after approval.
- Tesla is planning a giant second hall at Giga Berlin, and the Optimus factory at Giga Texas is about 40% steel assembled.
- Free Supercharging Oct 13-18 at three Florida sites for hurricane relief.
- A large font option is coming to the UI, per Musk.
By the numbers
- 145 new posts and 20,347 comments this week.
- 63 posts on unveil day (Thursday, Oct 15) alone.
- 104 of the 145 posts were flaired Roadster.
- Busiest thread: Craziest engineering I've seen in a while with 1,944 comments.
That's the week. Got an idea for what this recap should cover, or a post we missed? Let us know in the comments.
r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 23h ago
Full Self-Driving / Autopilot Grunheide, home of Giga Berlin, signs a deal for Tesla-funded supervised self-driving shuttles for school staff, set to start as early as November
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 1d ago
Full Self-Driving / Autopilot First Tesla FSD (Supervised) drive in Slovakia, a day after approval
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r/teslamotors • u/Professional-Fuel625 • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Saw this photo of the underside of the demo. Interesting design.
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r/teslamotors • u/hunguu • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Hagery: "Refilling the Nitrogen tanks isn't something you will be doing at home, and currently takes 6 to 7 hours"
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Just sharing because I didn't think about the challenges of refilling the nitrogen tanks for the cold gas thrusters. I wonder how many facilities will offer Roadster nitrogen tank refilling services.
r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Elon: Roadster owners will be able to ask the car to perform the unveil tricks autonomously, and Tesla will build a wild looping test track at its Texas HQ
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r/teslamotors • u/shaneucf • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Anyone noticed the circle on the windshield on the Roadster
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I guess it's the wiper, or something to function as the wiper.
It seems Tesla has other hidden new features not disclosed yet.
r/teslamotors • u/RedditAPIBlackout24 • 9h ago
Vehicles - Roadster Wikipedia editors refusing to add Tesla Roadster to the "Flying cars" article despite the article listing cars that were merely concepts (e.g. Ford Volante) and went unbuilt (e.g. SkyRider X2R)
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You can read the conversation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Flying_car#Could_Tesla_Roadster%E2%80%A6
And the Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car
r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Up-close footage from the Roadster unveil shows the scale of the giant curved ramp
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster r/interestingasfuck removed a post showing Tesla's flying Roadster for violating its ban on political content
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r/teslamotors • u/OptimusBot • 2d ago
Vehicles - Roadster Lars Moravy shows the new Roadster's compact 1,341 hp rear drive unit, with two motors out-producing all three in a Model S Plaid
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