2026-02-18 Tesla News - FSD Goes Subscription-Only, Grok Rolls Out In Europe, Dry-Electrode 4680 Progress

Tesla Daily News Podcast is a daily, investor-focused roundup that tracks the Tesla developments most likely to impact TSLA sentiment, fundamentals, and valuation. In the February eighteenth, twenty twenty-six episode, we cover Tesla removing the eight-thousand-dollar one-time Full Self-Driving purchase in favor of a subscription model, the rollout of Grok as an in-car AI assistant across parts of Europe, reported progress on four-six-eight-zero battery production using dry-electrode manufacturing, a viral Full Self-Driving safety incident that could raise regulatory and adoption risk, and warnings of a growing global memory-chip crunch driven by AI demand that may pressure costs and supply planning for automakers like Tesla.