The show mixes EV delivery-number deep dives with practical ownership talk. Tire rotation “boring facts” explain why Teslas recommend rotating about every 6,000 miles due to rear-drive efficiency and tread-depth stability in poor weather. News covers Stellantis shifting plans to build Leapmotor EVs in an idled Canadian plant, sparking union concerns about jobs and China-sourced parts, plus Honda Prologue sales lagging while it gets a price cut and offers wireless CarPlay/Android Auto. Delivery stats highlight Rivian’s Q1 rebound, Nio’s big YoY jump, and Tesla’s Q1 production/delivery totals, Supercharger growth, and FSD 14.3 release timing.
Topics:tesla tire rotation intervalsstellantis leapmotor canada plant shifthonda prologue sales vs chevy blazerrivian q1 2026 deliveriesrivian volkswagen zonal software-defined vehicle testsford ev sales drop contextnio q1 2026 delivery surgetesla supercharger q1 2026 statstesla model 3 y production vs deliveriestesla fsd 14.3 release expectations
In this episode, we break down the latest quarterly delivery numbers, highlighting Tesla’s Q1 2026 performance and the growing gap between Rivian’s success and Ford’s declining EV sales. We dive into Stellantis’ strategic partnership with Leapmotor and the hurdles Honda faces as they refine their electric roadmap. From practical Tesla tire maintenance tips to the launch of FSD v14.3, we explore the software and infrastructure updates shaping the industry. We also share a special community highlight as Joseph takes delivery of his new Model Y. Join us for a comprehensive look at the production trends and personal stories driving the EV transition.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Killawada Podcast
about electric vehicles, renewable energy,
autonomous driving and much, much more.
My name is Bode and I am your host.
And on today's episode we are going to talk
mostly delivery numbers,
but we have a few EV news stories peppered in there.
It is Easter morning.
And it is morning.
So I'm gonna be honest with you.
My voice is not quite up to par yet.
And then on top of that,
my brain is not up to par.
But it rarely ever is,
but it's really low in terms of functionality this morning.
So I hope you can forgive me when we go through this.
Couple different things here.
On Friday night I got a chance to talk to Joseph,
who is a part of the community,
and he just purchased a Model Y
and picked it up yesterday.
So that's awesome.
Congratulations to Joseph.
And then I've plugged this YouTube channel before,
but I think it's worth doing again
for a couple different reasons.
One is Neil is a part of the Kilowatt community.
And two, he's really close to hitting a thousand subscribers.
So Neil runs the Dandy Fun House,
which is a really fun pop culture YouTube channel.
And actually, it's not just a YouTube channel.
There is a podcast, YouTube, and a blog.
So if you go to dandyfunhouse.com,
and I'll put links in the show notes,
or his YouTube channel,
you will see all of the fun videos that Neil has put together.
Here's the cool thing about this,
is I'm guessing we're roughly the same age,
because all of the videos he makes make me nostalgic.
But the latest one is on Ronco.
So if you remember Ronco from the 80s and 90s,
probably mostly 90s,
the chop-o-matic and all that fun stuff,
Neil obviously puts a lot of time in research,
and then also presenting the material.
But they're like fun little 20, 25-minute documentaries,
and I would highly encourage you to go check it out if that's your thing.
All right, before we get to the news,
I have one final update here.
Let me pull up my correct show notes.
All right, a different Joseph Rodin on the topic of tire rotations.
So Carrie Murphy and I were talking about tire rotations,
and Joseph Rodin to give, in his words,
a few boring facts that he finds fun.
I'm going to try to get through this without losing my voice.
The 6000 mile rotation cycle recommendation is actually due to the drive setup
in almost all Teslas favoring the rear axle for acceleration and regeneration.
In almost all models,
the rear drive unit is a permanent magnet motor,
which is more efficient than the front drive unit,
which is induction base and only turns when needed.
Because of this, rear tires on Teslas wear slightly faster.
It's also part of why the cars drive so well,
because it allows the rear axle to focus on speed control,
while the front axle focuses on steering control.
It's interesting.
Another reason for the more frequent rotation cycle
is to compensate for issues with the vehicle alignment.
If the tires are going to last for 20,000 miles,
rotating every 6000 miles using a rearward cross pattern
allows each tire to spend time on each corner of the car.
It also helps keep the tread on the rear axle deeper,
which is the most important position for tread depth
for better vehicle stability in poor weather conditions.
And then he says, I'm boring, I know,
but I'd love to get this information out to more people,
which I found fascinating and I knew nothing about,
so almost nothing about these tire rotations.
I just do it because you're supposed to do it,
and that's where my knowledge stops.
So thank you, Joseph, for passing that along.
Alrighty.
Let's get to our EV news.
In a similar follow-up,
I talked about Stellantis building Leap Motor vehicles
under their own brand in the US under their Dodge brand.
Well, Stellantis, actually, there's actually news on this,
kind of, Stellantis would like to build Leap Motor EVs
at one of its idled Canadian factories.
Originally, Stellantis committed to building
the Jeep Compass EV in that plant.
They were going to invest $3.6 billion into the Ontario plant
and then the surrounding area,
and that would help the plant maintain
a minimum of 4,475 full-time employees,
which if they were able to do that,
then they would get 529 Canadian dollars,
or $229 million Canadian dollars in federal subsidies.
And Stellantis made a commitment to do this through 2025.
But they've kind of pivoted recently,
and they said that they would rather let Leap Motor
build their EVs there.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford,
which if you follow Canadian politics at all,
and I barely do and I know who Doug Ford is,
is an interesting character.
But Doug Ford and the Unifor Union,
which represents automakers,
like the people who build planes and trains and stuff like that.
So it's a big union in Canada.
They are not fans of this plan,
and they said that Leap Motor slash Stellantis
would only hire a fraction of the 4,000 plus people needed
that Stellantis committed to.
And it sounds like their argument,
and I don't know if this is true or not,
but their argument is that the parts would come directly from China,
and there really wouldn't be any halo effect
for Canadian parts manufacturers.
It would mostly be parts that came from China.
So not helping the economy in the way that the plan
was originally structured.
Let's put it that way.
I mean, we'll see where this goes.
We'll keep an eye on it for sure.
Interesting that a few people wrote in,
David and Mark being two of them,
and there are ones in the UK,
the other was in New Zealand,
and they had really nice things to say about the Leap Motor vehicles.
Oh, you know what?
I found this interesting.
In 2023,
Stellantis invested $1.6 billion into Leap Motor.
Now, that, in terms of investment,
doesn't seem like a whole lot these days,
especially when you're investing in an EV startup,
but that gave them a 20% stake in the company,
which is pretty impressive.
Now, I'm sure as other investors come on,
that stake is going to get diluted a little bit,
but yeah, they own, at the moment,
20% of the company, which is nutty.
You know what else is nutty?
Honda's EV strategy.
So over the last few weeks,
we've talked about this.
Honda canceled a bunch of EVs.
The prologue EV, as far as I know,
has yet to be canceled,
although I have heard things
and other people say that it has been canceled,
but I don't know if any of that is official yet.
But in the first three months of 2026,
they've only sold 3,319 prologue EVs,
so not a banger for the Honda prologue.
Now, on the other side,
it's sister vehicle, the Chevy Blazer,
because the prologue is built on the Altium platform,
or what used to be called the Altium platform,
which GM put together.
The Blazer is sold around 10,000 units
in the same amount of time.
And just kind of as a, I don't know,
weird comparison, the Ioniq 5 from Hyundai
has also sold close to 10,000 vehicles
during that time.
Here's the thing.
If you're in the market for a Chevy Blazer
or a vehicle the size of the Chevy Blazer,
you should really look at the prologue EV,
because one, it's reviewed very well.
And two, it's got, like I said,
it's built on the Altium platform,
but it has wireless carplay and Android Auto,
whereas the Chevy vehicles might have Android Auto
because their vehicles are powered by Google Automotive,
but they definitely don't have wireless carplay.
So if you're looking for a car about the size,
or the size of the Chevy Blazer,
and you want an 85 kilowatt hour battery,
308 miles of range, 294 if you go all-wheel drive,
I would consider the prologue.
Also, here's another reason to consider the prologue.
Honda is knocking off another $7,500 off the price of the car.
So the car now starts just barely under $40,000.
So it might be something that you would want to consider
if you are looking, like I said,
for an EV that size with that range.
Not a bad deal.
Like if you were looking at the Chevy Equinox,
which starts around $35,000,
but you want something just a little bit nicer,
or maybe a little bit bigger,
the prologue is definitely a good option.
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Okay, so that's kind of our EV news for this portion,
but we still have more.
We're going to talk a little bit about delivery numbers
from different companies.
We're going to start off with Rivian.
Rivian's Q1, 2026 delivery numbers
and production numbers are as follows.
They produce 10,236 EVs,
and they delivered 10,365.
Some of these numbers include Canadian sales,
so it's not a lot of the numbers,
but typically when we read out the numbers,
it's the sales for the US or worldwide.
In Rivian's case, it's 10,000 plus delivered and produced,
but also includes US and Canada.
Yeah, let's see.
They produced a bit less than they did
during the same period of time last year,
but they delivered a bit more than they did
during the same period of time last year.
I would say all in all a positive for Rivian,
and they definitely beat analyst expectations,
so that's positive for the company.
Kind of a side note, Pat, who has been on this show several times,
once with me and once being interviewed by Allison and Steve,
and maybe even twice with Allison and Steve.
Pat shared an article with the following information,
Rivian and Volkswagen have completed their winner test
for the Zonal architecture for their joint venture.
So if you don't know, Rivian and Volkswagen have a partnership
where Rivian does the hard work,
and Volkswagen writes the checks,
and their goal is for them to develop a software-defined vehicle.
Now, I'm sure this joint venture has very talented engineers
and folks from both companies,
but on a very, very basic and simplistic level,
they're using Rivian's tech that they already have
and have been working on in Volkswagen's money to develop this.
Well, they finished their winter tests this summer in Phoenix,
and I kind of know where they do a lot of their testing in Phoenix.
They're supposed to do some summer testing here,
and then some other places as well.
So, yeah, we're getting closer for the joint venture software-defined vehicle.
So that's exciting, and it opens up more money for Rivian.
I think they got another billion dollars for hitting this milestone,
so that's fantastic.
Also, you know what's funny?
When you look at the delivery numbers,
10,000 is right around normal per quarter
for companies like Rivian.
That would be a really good number for Lucid, for instance.
You know, Rivian's only selling two vehicles,
so we're not expecting those numbers to be super high.
But what you might not expect is those numbers are better than Ford did
with EVs in Q1, 2026.
So, just to kind of give you some context,
in Q1 2025, Ford sold 22,550 EVs.
In Q1 2026, they sold 6,860 EVs.
Now, you might be saying to yourself,
well, they stopped producing the F-150 Lightning,
so of course sales are going to go down.
And I agree with you.
However, of that 6,860 vehicles that Ford sold,
EVs that Ford sold,
2,060 of them were F-150 Lightnings,
so they only sell like 4,000-ish Mustang Mach-Es during Q1 2026,
which is not great.
Again, they had some issues through the middle to late last year
with the aluminum plant catching on fire multiple times
and some other stuff going on.
But yeah, 4,000 EVs for Ford, not great.
Now, Ford has kind of leaned into their next-generation EV platform,
which is to say they're producing a pickup truck
that's around the $30,000 range, which I think is fantastic.
They're also working on an affordable vehicle
that would compete with the Model 3 and Model Y.
Ford has, or at least Jim Farley, the CEO Ford,
multiple times has said basically like,
look to the Chinese because they're knocking it out of the park.
So Ford is taking a more of a Chinese manufacturing approach
to their vehicles, and hopefully that pays off
because that's fantastic.
Now, you know who else produced more EVs than Ford in Q1 2026?
Toyota.
Toyota, not Toyota and Lexus.
Toyota itself, it produced over 10,000 EVs,
or excuse me, sold over 10,000 EVs in Q1 2026,
and that is a 79% increase year over year
when compared to Q1 2025.
That's fantastic.
I still, I mean, listen, I'm trying to get some people from Toyota
to come on the show, so I have to be very careful here.
I still haven't changed my opinion about my friends who own Toyotas,
but I still think Toyota might be that dark horse
that comes out of this kind of, maybe not on top,
but at the top when it comes to legacy automakers.
All right, let's move to our next set of delivery numbers,
and that is Chinese car company NIO.
They saw a nice boost in sales year over year,
so if you don't know, NIO Group is made up of three different companies.
NIO, which is the original brand, OG,
the Envo, which is kind of like mid-priced in the Firefly,
which is more of an economy.
Most of the sales were made up by NIO, the actual, the main company.
It was something like, and I can't remember exactly what the mix was,
but it was a little over 50%, between probably 50 and 60% of sales
were from NIO, the actual main company,
which is the more expensive luxury brand-ish, if you want to call it that.
And then the other 50, 40 to 50% was made up of Envo and Firefly,
and those vehicles are not super expensive,
but they're also, when you look at a Chinese vehicle,
that is budget vehicle,
the Firefly costs more by quite a bit than what a BYD would cost, for instance.
Like a BYD dolphin and the beginning price of the Firefly, it's not the same.
Just to kind of as an example,
the dolphin costs between $11,000 and $17,000,
depending on the configuration in China,
and the Envo starts at $17,000.
So again, not premium budget for the Firefly,
but it's still selling relatively well.
That's kind of what I'm trying to get across here.
So you might be saying to yourself,
dude, just tell us the numbers.
How many did they deliver?
Well, they delivered 83,465 EVs in Q1, 2026.
Now, keep in mind, Neo operates across multiple countries and continents,
so they're not a small company.
They're a good-sized company.
So selling more than 83,000 vehicles in a quarter for a company like Neo is great,
but it's also a 98.3% increase year-over-year of Q1, 2025.
So a significant uptick in sales for Neo.
If we're just looking at March of 2026,
they sold 35,486 vehicles,
and that's up 136% year-over-year.
And then when you compare it to February of this year, it's up 70%.
So, man, Neo is doing well.
Let's just put it that way.
Neo is doing well.
So congrats to the Neo team.
Toyota, let's go places.
Okey-doke.
That is it for our regular EV news and deliveries.
We're going to move on to our Tesla news and deliveries in just a moment.
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So, all right, let's go ahead and move on to our Tesla news.
Before we get to the delivery numbers for Tesla and we'll get to that,
we're going to start off with full self-driving FSD 14.3,
which Elon said that FSD 14.3 should be released at the end of the week.
Employees have been beta testing it.
And Elon said it would go into wide release, which means public by the end of the week.
Now, I'm recording this on Sunday, which has, that week had ended
and we are starting into a new week and I'm fairly certain that it has not been released yet.
I've not seen anybody talk publicly that's involved in just, you know,
they have FSD, they're normal people who have hardware for,
I've not seen that, I've not seen them say that they got it yet.
So, we'll see where it goes.
There are some influencers that may or may not have it,
but just regular old people like you and me, I haven't seen anybody say they haven't yet.
Back in November of 2025, Elon did say that 14.3 would be the last big piece of this self-driving puzzle.
I'm adding editorially a little bit about the self-driving puzzle,
but he said it's, you know, the last big piece of the puzzle.
And, oh man, it's hard for me to imagine that the last piece of autonomy
when they're basically still level two driving is a point release, you know?
Like 14.2 was okay, lost some functionality, some things got worse,
some things got better, 14.3 is going to be a major update.
Like, you would expect a major release to get like a full version, like a 15, not a point update,
but who am I? Not somebody in the know.
Alright, so let's talk about supercharger stats for Q1 2026.
I think it's interesting when Tesla releases their supercharger stats.
Let's see, starting off, Tesla opened 2,500 supercharger stalls,
which is pretty impressive in three months.
That is up 19% year over year, so they definitely increasing.
Everybody was worried when Elon fired the supercharger team and put that team in other divisions,
kind of spread them out a little bit, but it seems like it has an effect the supercharger network.
In terms of energy, so Tesla's delivered 1.8 terawatt hours of energy to cars in that three month period, Q1,
which is up 22% year over year.
So if we want to come, you know, we want to take that and say, well, how much gasoline was saved?
So I'm going to start with leaders for our friends who celebrate the metric system.
823 million liters of gasoline is what was saved with 1.8 terawatt hours of just electricity.
And if we're going to convert that to gallons, it's 217 million gallons of gasoline.
And that's only the cars that charged on the supercharger network.
That doesn't include other, you know, EVs that charged in other locations or EVs that charged at home.
That's just cars that charged on the supercharger network is 823 million liters or 217 million gallons of gasoline.
So, and I would imagine in terms of, you know, percentage of charging sessions when you compare it to level two chargers at home
or in apartment complexes and level three chargers that are not run and operated by Tesla.
That number is quite a bit more than the 217 million gallons or 823 million liters.
So it's a step in the right direction is what I'm poorly trying to explain.
That saved just with the Tesla network.
That saved 3.4 billion kilograms of CO2.
It avoided, I guess, 3.4 billion kilograms of CO2.
And Tesla had a total of 53 million charging stations in that first Q3, Q1, 2026 time period, which is, that's a lot.
It's a lot of charging sessions.
Some other news when it comes to Tesla supercharger stations, they have stopped producing the V3 supercharger cabinet all together.
Now everything is V4 supercharger cabinets and stalls.
So that's good.
It's a huge benefit to us as we go forward and Tesla updates their cars to take full advantage of those, that faster charging speed.
In terms of Q1 2026 production delivery and energy numbers, Tesla Energy, we're going to start with that.
That's real quick.
They deployed 8.8 gigawatt hours of energy storage, which is actually a 38% decline year over year.
When I say energy storage, that includes the mega packs, power packs, if they even still making those and power walls.
So that's what they've deployed is 8.8 gigawatt hours, which again is a little less than 40% decline year over year.
I wouldn't read too much into that.
That's one quarter.
If it happens over multiple quarters, then that's a different story we'll investigate.
But for right now, I wouldn't read too much into it.
Okie doke.
Let's go ahead and move into our vehicle delivery numbers.
We're going to start off with a Model 3 and Model Y.
So they produced, this is worldwide, 394,611 vehicles.
It's a lot of vehicles.
They produced almost 400,000 vehicles, but they only delivered 341,893 vehicles.
So they produced about 50,000, a little more than 50,000 vehicles more than they delivered.
So what are they doing with those extra 50,000 vehicles?
No idea.
I mean, I'm expecting that they're looking to sell them in Q2 2026, but that's a lot.
That's a lot of inventory to have on hand.
So maybe they're expecting a run on EVs.
I don't know.
But 50,000 is a lot of extra vehicles, just saying.
Now, in terms of their other category and other include Cybertruck, Model S, Model X, and Semi,
they produced 13,775.
So a little bit lower than they did in 2025.
And we'll talk about the comparison here in just a second.
I don't want to confuse anybody.
So they produced 13,000, almost 14,000 vehicles in Q1 2026.
They delivered right around 16,000 while they delivered 16,130 vehicles.
So clearly they were sitting on a little more than 2,000 vehicles for delivery, but not a huge difference.
Now, if we're comparing that to 2025, in 2025, they actually produced 17,000 vehicles,
a little bit more than 17,000 vehicles, and they delivered a little less than 13,000 vehicles.
So almost inverse from what it was in 2025.
So the production numbers of 2026 and the delivery numbers of 2025 match up pretty close.
But does that say anything?
No.
The only thing that it says is maybe they sold a few more Cybertrucks when they Tesla gave that amazing six or seven day,
ten day deal, which everybody thought was weird.
So maybe they sold a few more Cybertrucks in that time period,
and maybe they sold a few more.
Model S's and Model X's because they are no longer making the Model S and Model X.
As a matter of fact, orders for the SNX have closed.
So according to Elon, there is a few in inventory and then that's it.
That's all.
So I'm not sure we got a huge increase in terms of deliveries in 2020.
I mean, if you look at it percentage wise, yes.
If you look at it for what Tesla would like the Cybertruck to sell at, I would say probably no.
This number is going to get real interesting when the SNX drop out completely
and those other numbers just include Cybertruck and Semi,
which I would not be surprised if Tesla just did not move the Cybertruck up to Model 3 and Model Y
and just say here's all the vehicles we delivered and they probably include Semi in that
because there's probably not very many semis that are being sold.
Because I don't think they want to show you what the Cybertruck numbers are if I had to guess.
If they were really good, I think they'd want to show us, but I don't think they want to show us.
Anyway, if we're looking at total numbers when you include the other vehicles and Model 3 and Model Y,
they produced 408,386 vehicles.
That's great. That's fantastic.
And they delivered 358,023 vehicles.
So overall, I think those, it's down a little bit, but I don't think it's that bad.
I think this is pretty good.
Is it down? Hold on.
I want to say that I read it was down.
So no, no, they're up a little bit.
Deliveries, deliveries are up a little bit.
Production is way up, but deliveries is what matters because that's what you get paid on.
So in 2025, Q1, they delivered 336,000, almost 337,000 vehicles.
And in 26 Q1, they 358, so they delivered 20,000 more vehicles.
I don't think they met Wall Street's expectations, but also I don't put too much into the expectation thing.
It's nice to mention when somebody beats it, but honestly, for the purposes of the show, I really don't care what Wall Street thinks.
And finally, Mark sent an article that kind of summed up how Tesla did in Europe during the month of March in 2026.
So the Tesla registrations surged across Europe in March.
Now, when I say surged, in places like France, it's up 203%, Norway up 178%.
France is actually pretty close to a record high.
Didn't quite beat it, but pretty close.
Sweden's sales are up 144%, Denmark's up 96%.
This is great.
I mean, they're not selling a ton of cars in any of these markets, but the fact that they're up this high kind of indicates that maybe sentiment in Europe is changing from what it was last year.
Kind of as an honorable mention, growth was also strong in Belgium, the Netherlands.
Italy and Spain, but there was a slight drop in Portugal.
And then, you know, the rest of Europe, there were some mixed results, not worth mentioning, not because those countries aren't worth talking about.
It's just we'd be here all day.
And it's Easter and my wife has been very patient for me to be sitting in here and recording this on a day that we're all supposed to be hanging out.
So I'm going to dip, I'm going to go and spend some time with my family, maybe build some Lego.
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
I hope you all are doing as good as humanly possible.
Like I want you all to be awesome.
So I'm sending my love to you on this day.
And on Tuesday, I think we're going to probably have news towards the end of the month.
I have some personal travel that I have to do.
I mean, it's kind of fun travel.
If I'm kind of not travel, my mom has Alzheimer's and she fell and broke her hips.
I'm going to go and she's in a home now.
So, you know, there's a whole thing that I got to go and do, which I'm happy to do.
It's just not something that's fun in terms of it's going to be a sad trip.
I'm just leaving it at that.
But anyway, so towards the end of the month, we're going to have some pre-recorded shows with really good interviews.
So I don't want to say too much because two of the interviews haven't been recorded yet,
but Alison Sheridan, one of the interviews has definitely happened already
and she's already given me the file, but Alison Sheridan from the nosillicastandpodfeed.com,
she gave me a interview that she did with her friend Ron and Ron has an older Model S.
And I'm not quite sure what model number it was or what year it was, but it was early on.
And he kind of went through the process of do I buy a new car or do I swap the battery out in this existing car?
And he chose to swap the battery out and then go through the kind of how much it cost
and what it would have cost to go through Tesla versus third party companies and the benefits.
It was a really good interview.
So I think you're going to enjoy that.
That's coming up.
And like I said, I've got two interviews that I'm supposed to record this Friday.
So that will also give us some extra content towards the end of the month.
So anyway, even though even though I don't always get this show out on time,
I am recording multiple times a week to make sure that we have content at least twice a week.
So I want to thank everybody for listening again.
I hope you're all having a wonderful day sitting on my lap today and I will talk to you on Tuesday.
Toyota. Let's go places.
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