The Haval H6 compact SUV.

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Using sleek designs,the latest high-tech interiors and a cheaper price tag,a handful of car makers are rewriting the script on EVs and hybrids.

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Elon Musk’s close alliance with US President Donald Trump is hurting Tesla,he says he will spend less time at DOGE from May.

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Elon Musk during a cabinet meeting at the White House in April.

Two middle-aged billionaires went to the White House. A ‘WWE-style shouting match’ broke out

The alleged fracas between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was said to have been witnessed by President Donald Trump.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE backdown won’t put Tesla back on track

The Tesla brand is damaged and the Trump tariffs are going to sting,but Musk’s fixation to serve the MAGA agenda remains the biggest threat facing the company.

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It wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA friends like Elon Musk.

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed,China and Tesla investors

Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.

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Elon Musk’s close alliance with Donald Trump and his MAGA movement is hurting Tesla’s profits.

Tesla’s profits plummet to five-year low as Musk pays the price of Trump

Tesla’s profits have plunged as the electric car maker counts the cost of the billionaire’s alliance with the US president and his trade war.

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Tesla chief Elon Musk,US President Donald Trump,Nvidia chief Jensen Huang.

‘What’s he doing here?’ Trump-Musk bromance feels the strain

The appearance of cracks in the world’s most famous bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk had an inevitability to it.

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are engaged in a Godzilla-like scuffle over tariffs.

GFC or UFC? This economic prize-fight has us all on the edge of our seats

Economics is no longer boring. Trump’s decision to pick a fight with China is a heavyweight bout for the ages.

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Donald Trump’s radical plan got a reality check from bond markets.

Trump’s sharemarket bonanza and the billionaire bros club

There were many winners in the market frenzy that followed Donald Trump’s about-face,including the US president himself,but his capitulation revealed who is really in charge.

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Billionaire hit:Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

Billionaires poised to lose nearly a trillion dollars in two days

The world’s 500 richest people suffered the biggest two-day loss ever in the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.

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