2026-02-04 Tesla News - New Model Y AWD pricing, China bans hidden door handles, Waymo funding raises robotaxi stakes

Tesla Daily News Podcast delivers a daily, investor-focused roundup of the most stock-relevant Tesla headlines, translating product, regulatory, autonomy, and competitive news into practical implications for margins, growth, and valuation. In today’s February fourth, twenty twenty-six episode, we covered Tesla’s new U.S. Model Y all-wheel-drive variant priced at forty-one thousand nine hundred ninety dollars, China’s planned ban on hidden door handles starting January first, twenty twenty-seven, and Tesla’s clarification that rumored Hardware four point five is not shipping. We also discussed the competitive pressure on Tesla’s robotaxi narrative after Waymo raised sixteen billion dollars at an about one hundred twenty-six billion dollar valuation, plus the indirect TSLA sentiment implications of Elon Musk merging SpaceX and xAI in a deal valuing the combined entity around one trillion two hundred fifty billion dollars, alongside continued investor attention on soft early demand signal