Musk said that he would reveal his car on August 8th
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has cancelled the electric vehicle maker’s plans to build a low-cost electric vehicle in favour of going all in on robotaxi, Reuters reported. In his’master plan’ in 2020, Musk had written that Tesla customers can share their self-driving vehicles with others at no cost when self-driving is approved by the regulators.
A less expensive electric vehicle was supposed to be built by the company
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric vehicle company will build an all-new electric vehicle “later in the 20th century”. “We’re focused on bringing the next-generation platform to market as quickly as we can, with the plan to start production at Gigafactory Texas,” Musk said in a letter to shareholders. Tesla plans to produce 10,000 vehicles weekly, he added.
Live updates from the US job market
The ABC’s most recent Construction Confidence Index found almost 48% of builders expect to add jobs in the next six months while only 11% expect job cuts. “We’re seeing an uptick in project opportunities for our folks,” said Ryan Odendahl, chief executive of Kwest Group, a civil and industrial construction firm based in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Just Walk Out is not included in the Fresh grocery stores of Amazon
Amazon has announced it will stop offering ‘Dash Carts’ that allow customers to browse through its grocery stores and then leave without going through the checkout line. The carts will allow customers to see the money they spent as they left the store in real-time. The carts are currently used in a handful of Whole Foods stores.
The founder of the World Central Kitchen says that there is an Israeli airstrike in Gaza
The founder of the US-based World Central Kitchen, José Andrés, has said that his organisation lost “several” volunteers in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. He said that the Israeli government needs to stop indiscriminate killing. WCK said the seven workers killed included a Palestinian and citizens of Australia, Poland, the UK and Canada, with one a dual citizen of the US.