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Prediction Series · Lock · Issue P-05
Prediction Series · P-05

Tesla's Q2 number, locked before Tesla prints it.

Q2-2026 global deliveries, locked at 424,000 with a full bucket distribution — before Tesla's ~July 2 release. Built bottom-up from regional registration data: Europe roaring off a low base, the US contracting double-digits, China disciplined for exports. Above the ~401k Street, fading the prediction markets' bull tail.

Type · Prediction Lock · corporate-KPI, bottom-up regional Locked · 2026-06-20 · before the Tesla release Resolves · ~2026-07-02 · Tesla Q2-2026 Production & Deliveries (8-K) Scored · bucket Brier vs the reported integer
Tesla Q2-2026 deliveries · our locked point
424k
global deliveries · primary bucket 400–425k

Above the ~401k FactSet Street consensus (in line with Goldman's 420k bottom-up). Distribution: [400–425k)=35%, [425–450k)=33%. We fade the prediction markets' bull tail (Kalshi ~432k median). Scored against Tesla's reported integer, not a beat/miss.

— 1 · The Locked Forecast

Point 424,000 — with the full bucket distribution.

We lock a point of 424,000 global deliveries and the full bucket distribution below. The two central buckets (400–425k and 425–450k) jointly hold 68% and straddle the line where our bottom-up point and the prediction-market median sit on opposite sides.

Tesla Q2-2026 deliveries · locked distribution (vs the reported integer, half-open buckets)
BucketLocked probability
< 385,0005%
385,000 – 400,00011%
400,000 – 425,000  (primary)35%
425,000 – 450,00033%
450,000 – 475,00013%
≥ 475,0003%
— 2 · The Data — bottom-up by region

The number, built region by region.

We build the global figure from the Q2'25 regional base and each region's verified YoY signal: Europe roaring off a collapsed base (Goldman ~+85–90%, ACEA April +46.5%), the US genuinely contracting (Motor Intelligence May −12.1%; Goldman 'mid-teens'), and China disciplined for exports (CPCA May retail +22.5%, but wholesale inflated by export units recognised elsewhere).

Q2-2026 regional build (Q2'25 base → estimate)
RegionQ2'25 baseYoYQ2'26 est
United States143,000−14%~123,000
China128,000+12%~143,000
Europe45,000+85%~83,000
Rest of world68,100+5%~71,500
Total384,122~421,000 → 424k
— 3 · The Variant View

Above the ~401k Street — and fading the market's bull tail.

Honestly stated: 424k is above the ~401k FactSet Street consensus, and in line with Goldman's independent 420k bottom-up. Our edge is twofold: discipline on China (refusing to read a +39% wholesale headline as +39% deliveries when ~45% of Shanghai output is exports recognised elsewhere), and respecting that the US — roughly a third of the base — is contracting double-digits. Net: we put only 16% above 450k versus the prediction markets' heavier upper tail (Kalshi ~432k median).

— 4 · Methodology

Corporate-KPI: regional registrations, summed.

A bottom-up corporate-KPI build: regional registration/insurance proxies (ACEA, CPCA, Motor Intelligence) applied to the Q2'25 regional base, plus a partial draw on the +50,363 Q1-end inventory buffer. We score against Tesla's single reported integer — not the Street beat/miss, which is whisper-gameable.

— 5 · Pre-Committed Post-Mortem

How we'd be wrong — named in advance.

Above 450k if Tesla draws the full inventory buffer and China prints a domestic blowout. Below 400k if US weakness deepens and China exports drag harder than modelled. A bucket miss resolves against the reported integer either way. We pre-commit these so the score is read against Tesla's number, not a narrative.

Locked before Tesla prints — scored against Tesla's own number.

RAOSCAFF locks P-05 on 2026-06-20, before Tesla's Q2-2026 Production & Deliveries release (~July 2). We score the locked distribution by Brier against the single reported global-deliveries integer in Tesla's release — not against the Street beat/miss.

Locked
2026-06-20 (commit timestamp on origin/main)
Resolves
~2026-07-02 — Tesla Q2-2026 Production & Deliveries (IR release / Form 8-K)
Source
Tesla Investor Relations / SEC EDGAR (CIK 0001318605)
Scored by
bucket Brier vs the reported total-deliveries integer (half-open intervals [L, U))

Half-open buckets with a stated tie-break, so there is no ambiguity about which side of a boundary the reported integer lands.