Sep 16, 2026 · 32 min · 11 segments
Simon Erickson and Heather Horton welcome back Steve Symington, managing director of New Columbia Capital and a former 7investing advisor, to revisit Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) nearly seven years after Steve…
Simon EricksonHost
Steve SymingtonGuest
Heather HortonHost
So I want to use that as the upcoming segue into part two of this call, which I'll jump into that in two minutes.

We can't go back and listen to Steve's advice when he was calling it a value stock.

I want to talk about where Tesla's going, what's on the horizon in the front mirror or the front window.

But first, let's look at the rearview mirror and look at what Tesla's done these last couple of years.

In the second quarter of 2026, this is hopefully you can see Model 3 and Y production, all the other models production, the deliveries, you know, you can kind of see the storage deployed, the supercharger set.

Like Steve said, this is a company that takes on a whole bunch of ambitious projects.

I don't want to just say, hoorah, Tesla, fantastic job, Elon, doing amazing things.

Look at the reduction, especially in recent quarters of the global automotive production.



They're kind of moving up into the same price points as Tesla's more expensive vehicles have.

So I want to use that as the upcoming segue into part two of this call, which I'll jump into that in two minutes.

We can't go back and listen to Steve's advice when he was calling it a value stock.

I want to talk about where Tesla's going, what's on the horizon in the front mirror or the front window.

But first, let's look at the rearview mirror and look at what Tesla's done these last couple of years.

In the second quarter of 2026, this is hopefully you can see Model 3 and Y production, all the other models production, the deliveries, you know, you can kind of see the storage deployed, the supercharger set.

Like Steve said, this is a company that takes on a whole bunch of ambitious projects.

I don't want to just say, hoorah, Tesla, fantastic job, Elon, doing amazing things.

Look at the reduction, especially in recent quarters of the global automotive production.



They're kind of moving up into the same price points as Tesla's more expensive vehicles have.
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