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Saturday, 23 November 2019

BBC News

• Tesla Cybertruck: Elon Musk's new vehicle smashed during demoElon Musk had an embarrassing moment as he showed off the new Tesla 'Cybertruck'.

Financial Times

• Tesla unveils bold design for ‘Cybertruck’Elon Musk hopes Bond-inspired electric vehicle will be a hit with pick-up drivers

The Guardian

• Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in a day after cybertruck fiascoTesla’s chief designer smashed the vehicle’s windows in an attempt to demonstrate their toughnessDoes the act of someone’s net worth plummeting make an actual sound?If so, then for Elon Musk it would be the thonk of a metal ball splintering the purportedly unbreakable glass of his long-awaited cybertruck. Continue reading...

Times Online

• Tesla’s first pickup truck ‘is bulletproof’ [Subscription]Tesla unveiled its first pickup truck at a haphazard presentation that included accidentally smashing two of the vehicle’s windows. Elon Musk, chief executive of the electric carmaker, proudly described Tesla’s Cybertruck as not looking like anything else, as he revealed a futuristic, triangular-shaped vehicle. Mr Musk said the design for the “bulletproof” $39,900 (£31,000) grey truck was partly influenced by the Lotus Esprit sportscar that doubled as a submarine in the 1970s James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The event on Thursday night will have been closely monitored by the car industry because Tesla is one of America’s most closely watched and valuable vehicle manufacurers.

City AM

• Uber 'under pressure to collect driver biometrics' to secure London licenceUber could be forced into providing the biometric data of its drivers in order to continue operating in London, according [...] The post Uber 'under pressure to collect driver biometrics' to secure London licence appeared first on CityAM.

Mail Online

• Nearly half of British motorists fear the UK's pothole-riven roads are getting worseForty-nine per cent of British motorists said the condition of their local roads - those other than motorways and A-roads - had deteriorated in the last year, according to the RAC.

This is Money

• Car tax evasion remains at record levels since paper discs were scrapped in 2014Around 1.6% of all car owners are dodging paying Vehicle and Excise Duty, figures released by the Department for Transport show. In the final year of paper discs, evasion rates were 0.6%.
• Supermarkets in fresh fuel price war cutting petrol and diesel prices by 2p a litreAsda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's have confirmed that motorists can save up to 2p a litre if they fill up with petrol or diesel at one of their forecourts over the weekend.

Bolton News

• 'Complete nightmare' St Peters Way delays finally set to end CHAOTIC delays on a major through-road are set to end a week earlier than expected.

Cambridge News

• Cheap car parks launched in Cambridge just in time for Christmas shoppingYou can park all day for less than a tenner and it raises money for charity

East Anglian Daily Times

• Portman Road multi-storey car park plan gathers pace as contracts awarded for workPlans for a multi-storey car park in a key Ipswich street have moved a step closer, after architects and engineers have been agreed.
• ‘Substantial leak’ shuts busy road in Suffolk townA major road in a Suffolk town has closed due to a ‘substantial’ water leak.

Other Regional Press

• Expressway review welcomed by Oxford Friends of the EarthAN ENVIRONMENTALIST group has welcomed plans to review a planned major road as the ‘beginning of the end.’

C.N.N.

• Tesla reveals Cybertruck, but breaks its 'unbreakable' windows during unveilingThe Cybertruck has arrived and it looks nothing like any pickup truck you've ever seen. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the long-awaited electric pickup truck at its Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, just outside Los Angeles.