Hi everybody. I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is Alan Oansman, senior editor and author of the current climate newsletter.

Alan, thanks so much for joining me.

Hi, Brittany. Great to be with you.

Numbers from Tesla's second quarter are historic, but not in the way a company would like. Tesla saw its

biggest ever year-over-year decline in vehicle deliveries. So now as we sit here at the beginning of

Q3, what problems does the company face? Well, unfortunately, it's more of the same. We saw this

in Q1 and the problems continued in Q2.

Its core business is selling electric vehicles,

selling charging services, and selling batteries.

And we don't know all the details for charging services and battery sales yet, but the biggest chunk

of Tesla's revenue, electric vehicles, down a lot, about 13.5% in the quarter, just dramatic

declines, especially in Europe. They were down in China. They were down in North America.

And this comes after a rough Q1.

There was some hope that a refreshed version of the Model Y was going to help boost sales a little bit in Q2.

That did not materialize.

Cybertruck, the newest product, the sales are small enough that Tesla doesn't even bother to break them out.

It's lumped together with Model S and Model Y in this kind of other product segment,

and that segment was way down. So, you know, Cybertruck has not delivered anywhere close

to the types of numbers. Musk was promising a couple of years ago.

So it was a pretty rough quarter.

We'll know in a couple weeks when they do earnings what those other business areas looked like.

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