Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Working On Something 'way Cooler' Than A Minivan

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There could beryllium a caller Tesla connected nan sky if a vague station from CEO Elon Musk connected X, nan everything app, is to beryllium believed. Perhaps he saw that Tesla's banal is down astir 17% year-to-date and figured it needed a boost, aliases possibly nan institution is really moving connected something. But, successful immoderate case, location could beryllium thing really caller connected nan sky from nan Austin, Texas-based company, and it whitethorn beryllium "cooler" than a minivan — arsenic if that's moreover possible.

It started connected March 24 erstwhile Musk tweeted that nan Cybertruck — soon to beryllium Tesla's astir family-friendly conveyance pinch nan Model X's decease — tin fresh 3 kid seats connected its rear bench. Another Twitter personification quoted nan post, penning "MAKE A MINIVAN, ELON." That's erstwhile nan world's richest man responded pinch "Something measurement cooler than a minivan is coming." Musk offered nary further mentation of what he meant by this. Perhaps it's the self-driving Cybervan he previewed along pinch nan Cybercab backmost successful October of 2024, but that's much bus-sized alternatively than minivan-sized.

Something measurement cooler than a minivan is coming

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2026

It's difficult to reason that Tesla needs a larger offering, particularly pinch nan Model X being sunsetted. When its accumulation yet ends, nan automaker will beryllium without a existent seven-seater successful its lineup. Yeah, it'll technically waste you a three-row Model Y connected Premium All-Wheel Drive trim, but God thief whoever gets stuck backmost there. And, if you're successful an accident, you're going to request a batch much thief than God's.

Without a doubt, immoderate type of caller exemplary is desperately needed by Tesla correct now. The Model S and Model X person been killed (but are still connected waste for nan clip being), nan Cybertruck's income are miserable to opportunity nan least, nan Semi sewage a refresh earlier accumulation moreover started and nan Roadster is obscurity to beryllium seen. I conjecture there's nan Cybercab thing, but who knows erstwhile that's coming? Of course, nan Model 3 and Model Y are still trading good (though, not by Tesla standards), but Tesla has rolled retired enshittened versions of those cars and slapped fat deals connected them to get them disconnected showroom floors.

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This lineup degradation has been happening arsenic Musk has seemingly switched Tesla's attraction from user to non-consumer vehicles for illustration nan aforementioned Cybercab and Cybervan, arsenic good arsenic its robotaxi work (which presently uses modified Model Ys) and its Optimus humanoid robots. The second is coming astatine nan disbursal of the Model S and Model X, which are being pushed speech astatine Tesla's Fremont, California, factory to make room for nan robots' production.

We really haven't heard a peep astir what Tesla's scheme for its adjacent existent user conveyance until now, and it's hardly moreover a crumb. I suppose nan existent fleet of nan Model, Model Y and Cybertruck will person to worker connected for now, though it'll beryllium a reliable ask. In nan first 4th of 2026, Tesla says it sold a full of 365,125 (Actually, it says it sold 365,645 cars, but that's incorrect. It seems it made an correction connected its Q1 merchandise page). Of those, 351,179 were either nan Model 3 aliases Model Y. The remaining 13,946 were nan Cybertruck, Model S and Model X.

While those numbers aren't peculiarly heinous for an EV-only company, they're surely slipping. In Q4 of 2025, Tesla delivered a full of 418,227 vehicles — a 13.6% — drop. Still, nan first period of nan twelvemonth is ever a spot slow. Let's comparison it to Q1 of 2025. Would you look astatine that — income were really up by astir 2,500 units. Something to support successful mind, though, was that January-March of 2025 was benignant of nan highest of anti-Elon sentiment passim nan world arsenic he was fto suffer connected nan national authorities by frenemy Donald Trump.

Maybe 2026 Q2 will beryllium better, or, astatine nan very least, cooler than a minivan.