Tesla Talk 2

It's only supervised at this stage. So the driver is still 100% responsible at all times. So no, you can not go on your phone or be drunk or anything. But this is only a stepping stone. And anyone who has been in one of the test rides in Europe, like I did last year, will tell you it is a big one.

Of course the end goal is a car that is unsupervised and then yes, you can go asleep drunk on the back seat while the car brings you home safer than you could have driven yourself home sober. Or sit in the passenger seat and work and make phone calls, let your car go out to taxi on its own at night while you are asleep, etc.

Exactly, people spend enough time glued to their phone. The idea that now you can do it while driving is just silly.

If you need an "expert" called in, you've probably missed the point already.

I've laid it out and if that's not landing, repeating it here won't help.

I'm not getting dragged into keyboard debates for the sake of it. I'll stick to the real world - the tech will speak for itself soon enough.

Troy Teslike says EU sales this quarter are stronger than in any quarter of 2025 and speculates it is due to Iran and fuel prices. Legacy manufacturers won't see similar bump as they almost exclusively build to order in the EU market.

I can see from various social media, facebook groups etc, that there is a huge renewed interest in EVs because of the Iran war. And in solar PV, batteries, etc. Or should I say not so much because of the war but because the massive increase in fossil fuel prices (with electricity still very cheap)

I could even see a burst of interest in my fully electric campervan that I put up for sale before the war started. Although that coincides with the start of the campervan season and the first nice warm sunny spring days we have had

Happening all over the globe in developed countries. Sales enquiries and forward purchasing on EVs in particular increased significantly.

If this keeps up I'm going to consider off loading my high-miler M3 if residuals start to creep up.

Love V8 petrols, had several of them. But they simply belong in a different era now. Fine as classic cars of course

They did resurrect Hemi. The smaller motors were just not selling and now they are screwed.

Tesla only measure sales when the cars go out the door (Yard) to customers, so presumably if sales are up this quarter then those same sales would have been ordered before the Iran situation.

Well before in fact.

There is a decent upswing in Tesla adoption that predates the middle east conflict. The first deliveries of 2026 only went out in the last fortnight, with another big delivery due in early May.

Turns out, we just love fantastic affordable EVs.

Shocker like.

Troy Teslike estimates 375k deliveries in q1 which is above estimated of other analysts. Last year was 336k during Juniper transition so Tesla still aren't healthy but this quarter's deliveries aren't going to trigger a well-off.

or maybe, just maybe, a manufacturer with 2 models which was the darling of early adopters isnt really going to maintain market share in the face of massively growing options and competition from every other manufacturer and lots of new ones to the market?

jesus audi are some shambles on the EV transition

i dont see polestar on that top 18 list? and they have taken near 25k off the polestar 4, surely that helps shift a few of them. So 240% on small volumes is not a valid comparison.

My answer is absolutely a legit answer, its blindingly obvious really.