4 h. ago It’s Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk as Amazon boss gets into the electric car business

New Slate EV is a pick-up that can morph into an SUV – at a fraction of the cost of a Tesla Cybertruck

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1 week ago Plunging used electric car prices costing fleet businesses 'hundreds of millions'

Car leasing firms say they have been the driving force behind EV growth - but are now being being left to 'shoulder' massive losses resulting from plummeting residual values.

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2 w. ago Donald Trump’s billionaire buds have lost fortunes since ‘Liberation Day’ tariff madness

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have all seen billions lost from their net worths after shares in their global companies have plummeted since the tariff news

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2 w. ago The chart that shows how clever Warren Buffett is as rival billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos reel from Trump's tariffs

Warren Buffett made some smart moves in the stock market over the last year, as he became the only billionaire among the world's richest whose net worth increased in recent days.

Politics

2 w. ago Starmer wants Britain at front of electric car ‘revolution’ as reforms unveiled

The Prime Minister said the ‘new era of global instability’ will push the Government to go ‘further and faster’ to support businesses.

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4 w. ago Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US | Simon Jenkins

The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue“Move fast and break things” was Mark Zuckerberg’s motto in launching Facebook 20 years ago. It seemed the antithesis of management-school custom and practice. But it worked, to be imitated after a fashion by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other digital tycoons with similar success. Donald Trump is now seeing if it works in government.The smart money in Washington was that after the fiasco of Trump’s first term, his second would see a more emollient president, one careful of his reputation. He would reach out, consult, become a peacemaker, in his desperation to become a Nobel president like Barack Obama.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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