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TSLAEarnings2026-07-22
The speaker reported a sequential decline in automotive margins excluding regulatory credits and referenced prior-quarter one-time items.
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Viva Teneza · Tesla · Tesla Q2 2026 Financial Results and Q&A Webcast
“Automotive automotive margins excluding regulatory credits declined sequentially from 19.2% to 16.3%. As a reminder, we had highlighted in Q1 that we had a 230 million benefit from warranty trowns and some tariff relief which did not repeat in Q2.”
Key terms
- regulatory credits
- — Emissions-related credits an automaker can sell to other manufacturers, which flow into reported revenue and margin.
- warranty true-up
- — An accounting adjustment that revises previously booked estimates of future warranty repair costs.
- sequentially
- — Compared with the immediately preceding quarter rather than the same quarter a year earlier.
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