{"id":20257,"date":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20257"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:08:55","slug":"cybertruck-sales-in-free-fall-as-tesla-reports-mediocre-sales-for-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20257","title":{"rendered":"Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Ars Technica. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Ars Technica &bull;<br \/>\n                    Jonathan M. Gitlin<br \/>\n                 &bull; October 2, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Tesla stock is up this morning; the year-over-year numbers might look bad, but the company still exceeded analysts\u2019 expectations of 456,600 cars, which would have been a larger 8 percent year-on-year decline<\/p>\n<p>Total production at Tesla actually increased year over year; it built 464,391 vehicles\u2014a 3.7 percent increase\u2014457,387 of which were Models 3 and Y (a 4.9 percent increase year over year).<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Ars Technica &bull;<br \/>\n                    Jonathan M. Gitlin<br \/>\n                 &bull; October 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2026\/10\/tesla-sales-drop-2-percent-in-underwhelming-q3-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Ars Technica &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Ars Technica. Read the original for the full story. Ars Technica &bull; Jonathan M. Gitlin &bull; October 2, 2026 Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That\u2019s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20257\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}