Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, about 24,500 more than analysts expected, almost all of them Model 3s and Model Ys. With US buyers pulling back, that volume now rests on Europe and China while Tesla's pitch moves to robotaxis and trucks.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Tesla has registered a Vietnamese entity. The market it would enter grew 89% in the second quarter of 2026 and is 92% VinFast, whose parent Vingroup booked $8.52bn of revenue in the first half of the year.
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ARK Invest counts Tesla's unsupervised robotaxi mileage at 1 million, up from 380,000 six weeks earlier, and puts the Cybercab's Austin fare about half of Uber's, a price whoever owns the car has to clear.
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The company will show the Li 6 in Paris and start selling in the fourth quarter, bringing only its battery models because the EU's duty on Chinese electric cars catches the extended-range powertrain that is its business at home.
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An hour of paid rides in the wheel-free two-seater shows software that drives passably and a service that fumbles the last fifty feet, where a human driver used to quietly handle the stopping and the door.
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The Austrian diagnostics firm ranks the Mercedes EQA first and the Nissan Leaf last at 150,000 km, but two Leafs with the same odometer can differ by more than the best and worst models do, which changes what a buyer should pay to know.
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The wheel-free car gets its production moment in Austin on Thursday, but the fleet it joins is still mostly Model Y, and the Bay Area will not let Tesla run any of it without a driver behind the wheel.
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A steering-wheel-free Cybercab rolling empty through Austin is an argument about build cost rather than mileage, since the 380,000 unsupervised miles Tesla claims sit at under 2% of Waymo's logged total.
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SAMR ordered 2.98 million Teslas fixed with warning stickers and a window-dropping software update. Hidden electronic exterior handles are banned in China from 2027.
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Robotaxi Tracker says every Austin ride it logged over two weeks ran unsupervised, seven months after Musk said the monitors were gone. The instrument is one person's crowdsourced site.
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