(Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc announced a deal on Thursday to buy the green credits from four large U.S. solar energy projects that will help the Facebook owner meet its clean electricity goals as its power needs surge. The agreement is the latest in a string of announcements Meta has made this year aimed at…
(Reuters) – Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are seeing concerns over their reliability easing but they still lag gas-powered vehicles, a survey by an influential U.S. non-profit organization showed on Thursday. EVs now have 42% more problems than their gas-powered counterparts, down from last year’s 79%, according to the Consumer Reports (CR) annual auto reliability…
(Reuters) – Alphabet’s Waymo said on Thursday it will expand its autonomous ride-hailing services to Miami, Florida, adding another city to its operations as it seeks to gain an edge in an increasingly competitive market. The company plans to introduce its vehicles to Miami’s streets early next year and aims to launch services to riders…
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON – Billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy met on Thursday with Republican lawmakers whose support they will need to win the sweeping spending cuts that President-elect Donald Trump has asked them to find. The two entrepreneurs have been named by Trump to a task force that aims for…
(Reuters) – New York City police were still searching for the man who killed UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel early Wednesday. Here is what is known about the incident, Thompson, and the suspect: WHAT HAPPENED? HOW DID THE SUSPECT ESCAPE? At about 6:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Thompson was walking from…
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) – Import tariffs during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term broadly lowered stock values on the day they were unveiled, and were associated with lower future profits, sales and employment for the firms whose equity prices were hit the hardest, new analysis by Federal Reserve Bank of New York staff concluded. Firms…
