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Tesla's auto suicide, Model S/X dead, Cybercab fiasco, and more

Electrek

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Electric, Model, Electrek, Leisure, Elon, Clean, Musk, Tesla, Leisure/automotive, Automotive, 3, Evs, Vehicles, Energy, Technology

4.3621 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 64 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's automotive suicide, Model S/X getting axed in the process, the Cybercab fiasco, and more

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And we're live?

0:02.2

Yeah, we're alive.

0:03.4

We're alive for a new episode of the I Trek podcast. I'm Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, I'm joined by the great set. Wintraub, are you doing this week's set? I'm good. All right. All right. First off, let me, if I have a weird energy right now, I don't know if you're listening, you're live or if you're listening after the fact.

0:24.0

But it's Friday, 4 p.m. as usual for us.

0:30.0

And there's kind of breaking news right now in the Tesla Elon world because the DOJ just drop a ton of files regarding Epstein.

0:33.5

And turns out that our boy, Elon, is all over them.

0:37.8

But wait, I thought he only got photo bound by Maxwell.

0:43.1

It was he never had.

0:44.1

Yeah, that was a photo bomb.

0:46.4

But now the most incriminating thing about the emails, and I've been in this for the last two hours.

0:53.2

I've been going through the emails.

0:54.5

There's 11,000 reference, 1100 reference to Lel musk in the files um so I'm already like a two or

1:03.1

1100 like that yeah oh yeah a lot of them repeats themselves though like because they they

1:08.4

get the email from a bunch of different sources got it so the emails and the shred repeats themselves though, like because they get the email from a bunch of different sources.

1:11.1

Got it.

1:11.7

So the emails and the shred repeats themselves. So, you know, so far I'd say I'd seen

1:16.6

probably like 50 original emails between the two of them. So they, they had a relationship for

1:21.3

sure. A lot of the emails also are weird where like they're, they're just like one sentence

1:25.8

empty without any threads that they point to

1:28.8

they point to them being on the phone with each other and like sending sending each other like

1:35.1

something just to like for example they missed hasabi sorry i'm i'm responsible but the head of

1:41.1

google deep mind uh like in 2014 out of nowhere, Elon is just like, is emailing Jeffrey Epstein's

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