Tesla hit by Epstein files, Roadster still lives, new Chinese EVs, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla getting hit hard by the Epstein files, Roadster is still alive, new Chinese EVs, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Two Tesla board members are all over the Epstein files: what happens next?
- Tesla (TSLA) can’t find the bottom in Europe as 2026 starts with another brutal decline
- Tesla launches new Model Y AWD at $41,990 — just $2,000 more than base
- Tesla files new Roadster trademark with new silhouette
- Xpeng reveals first images of GX flagship SUV with Range Rover styling and steer-by-wire
- Xiaomi reveals 990-horsepower YU7 GT performance SUV with 186 mph top speed
- The world’s first sodium-ion battery EV is here and it could be a game changer
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:
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| 0:00.0 | Three two, one. |
| 0:02.0 | And we are live for a new episode of Electric Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | I am friend Lambert and on Do Not Disturb. |
| 0:10.1 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintraub. |
| 0:12.5 | How are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:13.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.3 | All right. |
| 0:16.0 | We have a lot to talk about this week. |
| 0:18.2 | We're going to start about the biggest story of the week, |
| 0:20.8 | even though we talked a little bit about it on last week's podcast, |
| 0:23.9 | but it was breaking news at the time. |
| 0:26.4 | Like I said, I'm still going through everything. |
| 0:29.6 | We're talking about the Eustl Fals here and how it affects Tesla. |
| 0:33.9 | If it will affect Tesla to any degree, I think it will. |
| 0:39.7 | I think this is not a story that's going away anytime soon because, yeah, Tesla doesn't have just one person. If you |
| 0:46.6 | thought it has two literal board members in there. We're talking about the Musk brothers. Obviously, Elon, there was a lot of rumors going |
| 0:57.9 | around before the release. So we knew that there were some emails between Elon and Epstein's. |
| 1:06.0 | Elon's story was always, Epstein was trying to get me to the island and I always refuse. |
| 1:13.6 | So the key words here is always refused. |
| 1:17.0 | And then there was media reports that Kimball Musk, Elon's younger brother and Tesla |
| 1:24.9 | born member, had a relationship with Epstein and that Epstein had |
| 1:31.0 | presented him with women in the past. Those were media reports that were clearly, they knew |
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