2026-01-26 Tesla News - Austin robotaxi paid launch, Autopilot removed, FSD push, Europe leadership shifts to VW

Tesla Daily News Podcast is a daily, investor-focused roundup that filters Tesla headlines for what actually moves TSLA: autonomy progress, deliveries, margins, pricing, regulation, competition, and energy growth. In today’s January twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six episode, we covered Tesla’s reported launch of paid robotaxi rides in Austin without an in-car safety monitor, a major product strategy change that removes basic Autopilot from new U.S. and Canadian orders and pushes buyers to the ninety-nine-dollars-per-month FSD subscription (with an eight-thousand-dollar buy option before February fourteenth), and the earnings setup where investors are watching revenue near twenty-four and a half billion dollars but will likely trade the stock on margins and guidance. We also discussed a notable insurance signal — Lemonade offering roughly a fifty percent discount when FSD is steering — plus rising competitive pressure in Europe where Volkswagen reportedly became the top EV brand by volum