Tesla Update — 2026-08-02

Tesla News & Deals

Confirmed deals

• No newly confirmed U.S. or Hawaii purchase, lease, or financing offer change. Tesla’s Current Offers and ZIP 96825 new-inventory pages still return HTTP 403 to unattended checks. CarsDirect’s Honolulu page is now titled “Tesla Lease Deals For August,” but its cards still carry the same July 31, 2026 expiration and July terms; a changed page heading is not a renewed offer. Configuration, inventory-only, returning-owner, qualified-credit, order/delivery, expiration, and Hawaii restrictions therefore remain unverified. Tesla’s configurator and inventory are final authority. What changed: no reproducible August program appeared. Confidence: offer status unverified. Tesla Current Offers · Tesla new inventory · CarsDirect Tesla lease tracker

Important Tesla news

• Tesla confirmed expanded Cybertruck Power Conversion System remedies. Tesla’s verified Cybertruck account says pre-2026 PCS electronics did not meet its reliability standards and that newer trucks use a redesigned part. Model-year 2024–2025 trucks now receive 8 years/150,000 miles of PCS coverage; model-year 2026 trucks receive 7 years/70,000 miles. Tesla says reimbursements for owners who already paid for a PCS replacement will begin “in the next few weeks.” It also says a software update preserves Supercharging after a PCS failure and that trucks waiting for parts receive free Supercharging. This is component-specific—not a whole-vehicle warranty extension—and Tesla did not publish reimbursement mechanics, the part-supply timeline, or combinability details. Owner impact: affected owners should retain invoices and open a Tesla Service case; trucks awaiting a replacement should verify free-Supercharging eligibility in their account. Confidence: confirmed by Tesla. Tesla/Cybertruck announcement
• NHTSA opened a preliminary investigation covering about 1.2 million Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. Reuters reports that the Office of Defects Investigation received 156 complaints alleging that a front lower lateral link can detach on 2018–2020 Model 3 and 2021–2023 Model Y vehicles, potentially leaving a vehicle undriveable or affecting steering control. NHTSA reportedly knew of no related crashes, injuries, or deaths when the probe opened. This is an investigation, not a recall. Owner/buyer impact: owners in the stated model years should take new suspension noise or steering changes seriously and preserve service records, but no universal repair campaign has been announced. The direct NHTSA investigation record was not reproducible through the agency’s accessible pages in this run, so the details remain attributed to Reuters. Confidence: credibly reported. Reuters report · NHTSA vehicle-related investigations
• No new Tesla SEC filing appeared. Tesla’s submissions feed still ends with the July 23 Form 10-Q; no August 1–2 filing was present at the 3 AM HST check. Confidence: confirmed from SEC data. Tesla SEC submissions

Rumors and early signals

• FSD (Supervised) v14.3.7 appeared as vehicle software 2026.21.5 in a two-car TeslaFi-derived sample. Not a Tesla App says the build has the same published notes as v14.3.6 and shows only 2 tracked vehicles (0% of its fleet). That is evidence of an extremely limited or test-stage deployment, not a fleetwide release. Confidence: credibly reported third-party tracker; not Tesla-confirmed. Confirmation requires Tesla-hosted release notes or direct owner observations across a materially larger sample; rollout remains staged by vehicle, hardware, region, and eligibility. 2026.21.5 / FSD v14.3.7 tracker

Deal watch

• Offers approaching expiration: the visible Honolulu ZIP 96825 CarsDirect cards are already expired as of July 31. Their lease terms should not be treated as orderable August offers. Annual mileage, taxes, acquisition/disposition fees, credit tier, order/delivery deadlines, and incentive combinability remain undisclosed. CarsDirect Tesla lease tracker
• Meaningful inventory discounts: none independently reproducible for Hawaii; Tesla’s inventory page remains blocked to unattended access. Tesla new inventory · Tesla-Info inventory tracker
• Signs a stronger promotion may be approaching: none verified. The normal month-start reset has not yet produced reproducible August APR, lease, loyalty, referral, free-Supercharging, zero-down, or inventory-discount terms for ZIP 96825.
• Buy now or wait: wait for direct August terms unless a specific in-stock vehicle meets an urgent need. Before ordering, verify Tesla’s direct ZIP 96825 quote, annual mileage, taxes, fees, qualified-credit requirements, configuration, inventory status, Hawaii availability, delivery deadline, and incentive combinability.