the bbc reporter michelle fleury has more on the story. the road has not been easy. the last time elon musk took to the stage to promote the company s cyber truck, its windows ended up being smashed. four years later, as the company starts delivering the futuristic product to buyers, the problem has been fixed, with customers there in person at the tesla factory there in austin, texas, there to collect their cyber truck. elon musk put on a show to mark this historic moment. this video shows a cyber truck beating a porsche in a drag race while towing a porsche. but tesla s entry into the lucrative us stock market truck market is some two years behind schedule, at a time when high interest rates have dampened buyers ability to make new purchases. the cheapest model is $61,000. elon musk said the company has more thani million reservations and although the cyber truck is not expected to turn a profit for several years to come, given the enormous challenges in actually making
London [UK], November 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): Despite positive progress at COP26, current country pledges and commitments, even if fully implemented, still do not put the world on a trajectory to limit global warming to 1.5C. If the world is to have even a 50 per cent chance of meeting that objective, COP27 must act as a catalyst to turn broad national commitments into specific actions and pave the way to more forceful measures to phase-out coal and end deforestation. The economic and political situation ahead of COP27 is highly challenging. In addition to lingering pressures resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain disruptions, the world now faces record energy and high food prices in many regions resulting from the war in Ukraine. Together these are leading to high inflation, lower growth and risks of recession in many countries. There is a danger that energy security and short-term economic pressures, together with geopolitical tensions, will divert national and internation
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