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CarCast+Edmunds - Tesla sales pick up and negative equity on car loans continues to increase.

CarCast

Bleav + Carolla Digital

Leisure, Lifestyle, Automotive, Sales, National, Business, Comedy

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Alistair welcome Jessica Caldwell, Head of Insights at Edmunds to discuss the rise of negative equity on car loans and what you should do. Presented by DrinkBravago.com

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Edgents Carcast Podcast.

0:08.0

I'm Matt the Motorator DeAnder here with Alistair Weaver, and we'll be welcoming back to the show, Jessica Caldwell.

0:15.0

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0:20.0

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0:23.5

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0:28.7

Jessica is the head of insights at Edmund. She was on with us a few months ago and we got into a conversation about a leasing and buying and negative equity and what that means.

0:39.4

So we'll touch on that and kind of get a recap of where we are currently because you guys

0:45.4

just ran a bunch of numbers, basically, again, and you can explain that.

0:49.2

But before we get into that, there was some interesting news about Tesla.

0:54.5

Tesla saying they've rebounded on some sales and some other things.

0:59.1

But maybe we should start there, Alistair.

1:01.9

What do you understand that you gather from Tesla's?

1:06.6

What's the takeaway from their announcement?

1:10.1

Well, I think Tesla remains the great unicorn in the EV market, isn't it?

1:14.1

No matter, it seems to whatever Elon does to damage their reputation, whatever, whatever

1:19.4

happens, they somehow just keep going and the share price keeps an extraordinary high level.

1:25.0

The big takeaway for me, which I thought was particularly interesting,

1:28.0

is they were saying that the roadster, if we ever see it, I mean, I think that's been promised for about

1:32.5

10 years now. But on the assumption that we eventually see the roadster, they're saying that's the

1:37.0

only Tesla in long term that you will drive yourself, everything else, we're going to double down

1:42.2

on autonomy, and that this is going to come the way

1:44.6

of software updates, which software updates on most of the vehicles. If you own an older Tesla, you'll

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