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A 66-minute quote for a 2.3-mile ride. Drop-offs miles from the destination. The complaints are coming from Tesla's own ambassadors — and they don't stay in the rideshare app.

A Tesla Robotaxi drove through a row of bollards on video — less than a month after Tesla's head of AI told investors the program had zero notable incidents. Dealers selling FSD-advertised inventory should read this carefully.

Manitoba barred Tesla from its provincial rebate program. Tesla sued. The court fight is now the clearest stress test of whether governments can use incentive eligibility as industrial policy — and the answer has real consequences for every dealer desk in North America.

Two Tesla headlines this week — a federal door-safety overhaul and a 'rolling hazards' wrongful-termination lawsuit — aren't just Tesla's problem. They're the opening act of a regulatory reckoning that every EV-retailing dealer needs to read carefully.

Hybrids just hit a record 22.1% share in California while BEV registrations fell. The dealers feeling it hardest are the ones who over-rotated toward EV depth.

BYD and Chery are eating into Europe's midsize SUV segment while U.S. dealers debate whether EV demand is coming back. The more important question is what happens to transaction prices when that chemistry reaches your market.

Tesla's new guaranteed future value program locks in resale prices for Model Y and Model 3 buyers — and quietly confirms that two years of price cuts broke the used-market math. Franchise EV dealers should be taking notes.