Tesla Q3 2026 earnings: Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 5:30 p.m. ET, with Cybercab and Optimus on the agenda

Tesla’s third-quarter numbers and its first earnings Q&A since the Cybercab started carrying riders land on Wednesday evening. Here’s when the Tesla Q3 2026 earnings call starts in every time zone, where to watch and what the quarter already looks like.

What time is the Tesla Q3 2026 earnings call?

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. ET, which is 4:30 p.m. CT in Austin, where Tesla is based, 3:30 p.m. MT and 2:30 p.m. PT. Tesla’s official advisory says the company posts its third-quarter results after the market closes at 4 p.m. ET, as its Q3 2026 update, and sends a brief advisory with the link. The live question and answer webcast follows at 5:30 p.m. ET.

Tesla’s stock trades on Nasdaq under TSLA, so the results land in after-hours trading, an hour and a half before the Q&A starts. The archived webcast goes up about two hours after the Q&A ends, for anyone who misses it live.

Tesla earnings call time around the world. In Europe, the call is a late Wednesday night: 10:30 p.m. in London and 11:30 p.m. in Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam. Europe moves its clocks back on Oct. 25, four days after the call, so these times hold for Oct. 21.

In Asia, it’s an early Thursday morning, Oct. 22: 5:30 a.m. in China, where Tesla builds cars at its Shanghai factory, 6:30 a.m. in Japan and Korea and 3 a.m. in India. Sydney gets it at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, and São Paulo at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Tesla’s Q3 2026 deliveries and energy storage. Tesla already published the quarter’s car numbers on Oct. 2. It delivered 486,532 cars, including 478,237 Model 3 and Model Y and 8,295 of its other models, and built 464,391. A year earlier, in Q3 2025, Tesla delivered 497,099 cars and built 447,450, so deliveries came in about 2% lower and production about 4% higher.

Energy storage grew. Tesla deployed 13.7 GWh of storage in Q3 2026, up from 12.5 GWh a year earlier. Tesla’s own report calls deliveries and deployments only two measures of its performance, and net income and cash flow come with the Q3 2026 update after the close on Oct. 21.

The Cybercab is the headline. Tesla started commercial Cybercab rides in Austin on Sept. 3, 2026, and on Oct. 10 its Robotaxi account said more than 300 Cybercabs were serving the city. Tesla’s head of AI software says Dallas is next, without a date, and US safety regulators gave Tesla until Oct. 30 to answer questions on how it certified a car with no steering wheel. Our Tesla Cybercab page tracks every city and the price, which Tesla hasn’t announced.

Optimus is the second big topic. Tesla’s Q2 2026 update of July 22 said production of the humanoid robot at Fremont is expected later in 2026, on a line designed for 1 million robots a year, with the first robots staying inside Tesla for training. Our Tesla Optimus page has what Tesla has said about the price and release date.

The Q3 update is also Tesla’s first earnings report since it revealed the new Roadster on Oct. 15, with three versions and a $50,000 reservation but no price or delivery date, as our Tesla Roadster page explains. Tesla’s cheapest cars are still the Model 3 Standard at $36,990 and the Model Y Standard at $39,990, and Elon Musk has said Tesla will sell a Cybercab to a customer for $30,000 or less before 2027. Tesla hasn’t announced a car called Model 2, as our Tesla Model 2 page shows.

Tesla streams the Q&A live on its investor relations website, the same place it posts the Q3 2026 update and, about two hours after the call, the replay. The webcast starts at 5:30 p.m. ET, 4:30 p.m. in Austin.

This page is updated as soon as Tesla posts its Q3 2026 results and the Q&A ends, with the official numbers and every Cybercab, Optimus and Roadster update.