CarCast+Edmunds - Tesla sales pick up and negative equity on car loans continues to increase.
CarCast
Bleav + Carolla Digital
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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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 | It's a big week and Fandul. NBA playoffs are heating up and MLB is in full swing. |
| 0:20.0 | So download the Fandul app and place your bet today. |
| 0:23.5 | Must be 21 and over in present in select states. Gambling problem? Call 1-800 gambler. |
| 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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