Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2026 earnings: Revenue hits $22.4B as margins jump to 21.1%

We continued to make meaningful progress on the build out of the infrastructure & AI software that underpins our Robotaxi & future robotics businesses in Q1.

That meant commencing the ramp of new factories across AI compute, battery & battery materials, as well as preparing lines for start of production of Megapack 3, Cybercab & Tesla Semi.

Demand for our vehicles continued to grow in APAC & South America markets, with a rebound of demand in EMEA markets & North America.

As trade and geopolitics become more uncertain, we're further regionalizing and vertically integrating critical supply chains to ensure access to key materials & componentry in each region across vehicle, energy & AI.

Automotive
– Optimizing our vehicle product portfolio with an emphasis on vehicles designed for a fully autonomous future

– More affordable trims of Model 3/Y & rollout of Model Y L in markets outside of China

– Began deliveries of Cybertruck in the UAE

– Volume production of Cybercab & Tesla Semi this year

Energy Generation & Storage
– Good progress with new Megafactory outside Houston (will produce Megapack 3 for Megablock). Start of production on track for later this year

– We began meaningful customer deployments of Tesla’s first in-house designed solar panel produced at Giga New York

Robotics
– Preparations for our first large-scale Optimus factory will begin shortly in Q2.

First-gen line designed for 1M robots/year will replace Model S/X lines in Fremont Factory, second-gen line is being prepared at Giga Texas (long-term annual capacity of 10M robots/year)

AI Training Compute
– Cortex 2 is now online & has started running training workloads

– Also ramping on-site training infrastructure to ensure sufficient compute resources for AI products & services

– Continuing with custom silicon development (Dojo 3) to reduce training cost over time

Battery
– Ramping new battery & material factories, including LFP cells in Nevada, cathode material & lithium refining in Texas

– Battery vendor cell availability continues to be a limiting factor on ramping vehicle production, so we're working on initiatives to de-bottleneck, including using 4680 cells at Giga Berlin

Other Supporting Infrastructure
– Giga New York is now producing V4 Supercharging cabinets (3x power density & 2x the number of stalls vs V3)

– Alongside the ramp of Tesla Semi, we're deploying public Megachargers, including our first one in SoCal

– Over 2,200 new Supercharger stalls, growing the network 19% YoY

AI Software
– FSD 14.3 launched in April

– Upgraded Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage to better handle long-tail edge cases, enhanced the neural network vision encoder for sharper perception in low-vis scenarios & rewrote the AI compiler to accelerate model iterations & cut inference latency by 20% (faster reaction time for FSD!)

This accelerates our efforts to eventually deploy unsupervised autonomy to both the Robotaxi fleet & customer owned vehicles

– Digital Optimus: our next evolution of AI development. We're working on automating digital workloads, building an intelligence layer that will complement real-world AI in vehicles & robots

AI Inference Compute
– Expanding our scope of manufacturing to include semiconductor fabrication (coinciding with Robotaxi & Optimus ramps) = step towards ensuring sufficient & resilient chip supply

– Partnership with SpaceX aims to build the largest chip fab ever, vertically integrating logic, memory & advanced packaging to allow for rapid iteration

– Completed final chip design of AI5 (our next-gen inference processor) in April

Automotive & Other Software
– Rolled out Spring Update which includes a new Self-Driving app with tutorials & stats, "Hey Grok" wake word w/ location-based reminders, accent lights for blind spot alerts, updated Pet Mode & more

Robotaxi
– Paid Robotaxi miles doubled sequentially in Q1

– Cybercab will begin replacing Model Y fleet once in production & be the largest volume vehicle in the fleet over time

– Continuing to lay the groundwork for expanding into new cities (testing, permitting), so we can launch quickly once ready. Safety remains top priority

– Expanded unsupervised ops in Austin & launched in Dallas & Houston in April

FSD Supervised
– Record net new FSD subscriptions in Q1

– Received approval to deploy FSD Supervised in the Netherlands in April, clearing the path for potential approval in other EU countries

– Continuing to make progress on approval in China

Automotive Services
– Safety Score v3.0 enables every mile driven with FSD Supervised engaged to receive a score of 100. Higher Safety Score over time = lower premiums for Tesla Insurance customers