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California is filling the void left by Trump and the GOP repealing the federal electric vehicle tax credit. I've signed legislation creating an instant rebate for Californians going electric — $3,500 off new EVs and $1,750 off used models. We won't forfeit the future to China.

NEWS: Tesla says the Model 3 starts at $36,990, roughly 25% below the average new car in the US The comparison figure is $49,353, Kelley Blue Book's average new-vehicle transaction price in February. Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive undercuts it by $12,363. Tesla also ran 5-year running costs across 60,000 miles. Model Y RWD lands at $0.77 per mile. A Toyota RAV4 costs $0.81. A Hyundai IONIQ 5 costs $0.85. A BMW X3 costs $1.15. Over 60,000 miles the Model Y runs ~$2,400 cheaper than the RAV4 and ~$22,800 cheaper than the X3. Tesla credits volume. It says "scale is critical in making sustainable tech accessible to everyone." The Model Y's widest gap is against another EV. The IONIQ 5 costs 10% more per mile. (Source: Tesla, July 7)

$TSLAQ Blowout delivery quarter? They only absorbed 16,004 units of the 94,266 inventory build of Q1 and Q4 of 2025.

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

Of the 6 countries reporting daily $TSLA registrations, only the UK is seeing the customary "end-of-quarter" delivery sprint. That might help push $TSLA 2026 Q2 market share back up from 9.7% to above 10%. But it won't stave off another QoQ market share loss. $TSLAQ

$TSLA self driving mode "malfunctioned", veered off road 🤡 crashed into home's garage

BREAKING: 𝕏 Money is reportedly launching with 6% APY, up to $10M in FDIC insurance, unlimited 3% cashback and a physical Visa metal card.

4月注文でようやく納車されました。 納車場所は平面駐車場でしたが、 雨の中テスラスタッフさんこれから納車される車の準備頑張っていました。 テスラだらけでめちゃくちゃ売れてるな。 #テスラ

$TSLA FSD *almost* slams into flatbed trailer, after experiencing sun glare 🌞 🌞 Identical to below except Tesla driver intervened in time 🌞 FSD continues not "see" objects in front of it when experiencing sun glare