Slate Auto is aiming to accomplish what Ford Motor couldn’t — to get drivers to swap their gasoline-powered pickups for an electric truck. Slate on Wednesday began taking $300 preorders for its base $24,950 electric pickup truck, a price that is less than half the roughly $57,000 average cost of a new electric vehicle and well below … Read more
Vance gives update on US-Iran talks, shuts down Strait of Hormuz concerns Vice President JD Vance discusses critical U.S.-Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland, emphasizing efforts to ensure Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon and to maintain open international shipping. Trump’s administration aims for a lasting peace deal, with 16 million barrels of oil recently moved … Read more
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change, telling a gathering of climate change skeptics they should “celebrate vindication.” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made the remarks in the keynote address at a conference hosted … Read more