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Tesla has opened its shareholder question box for the third-quarter 2026 earnings call, giving investors about a week to submit and upvote the questions they most want management to answer when the company reports results on October 21.
Questions are being collected on Say, where Tesla says it “invites shareholders to ask and upvote questions that they would like addressed during their Q3 2026 Earnings.” Submissions close on October 20 at 4:00 PM EDT, and the call itself starts on October 21 at 5:30 PM EDT, or 4:30 PM Central Time. At the time of writing, 239 questions had come in from 618 participants representing about 539,000 TSLA shares.
The early leaderboard leans heavily on autonomy. The question with the most shares behind it asks how the Cybercab fleet will scale past Austin and what the regulatory path looks like outside Texas, while others ask when customers can buy a Cybercab outright, when unsupervised FSD will reach customer cars, and how much each Optimus robot costs to build. Several highly ranked questions also press Tesla for a firm timeline on Hardware 3 upgrades.
The Say platform ranks questions by the number of shares represented, not just raw votes, so large retail holders carry more weight than a single account with a handful of shares. Shareholders verify their holdings by linking a brokerage account, and Tesla has used the system for years, including when it first began accepting questions this way for its Q4 2021 call and later folded it into a broader shareholder platform. Management typically works through the top handful of questions near the end of the call, after analysts get their turn.
Tesla follows a familiar rhythm each quarter. It posts production and delivery figures in the first days after the quarter ends, then releases its shareholder deck and holds the earnings webcast roughly three weeks later. For Q3, Tesla already reported 486,532 deliveries, beating analyst consensus, along with 13.7 GWh of energy storage deployments that fell short of expectations.
The October 21 report will fill in the financial side, including margins, cash flow and spending on AI and new factories. Back in July, Tesla posted Q2 revenue of $28.2 billion but an operating margin of just 1.4 percent, and on the Q2 call Elon Musk said capital spending was running above $25 billion for the year as Tesla ramps Cybercab and Optimus. Investors will be watching whether those costs are starting to pay off.
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