Why More Electric Trucks Aren’t Hitting the Roads
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, July 26th. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | It's earning season again and investors are watching how advertising and artificial intelligence |
| 0:46.0 | will affect the tech sector. |
| 0:48.0 | We'll explain how those factors impacted Microsoft, Google and Snap. |
| 0:53.0 | Plus, the shift to electric vehicles may seem like it's kicking into high gear, with more drivers and electric cars. |
| 1:00.0 | But for commercial trucks, the EV transition is moving a lot slower. |
| 1:05.0 | Bard Ziegler wrote about that for the Wall Street Journal, and he'll be here later to tell us why. |
| 1:14.0 | Starting though with some exclusive Wall Street Journal reporting, |
| 1:19.0 | the company formerly known as Twitter is cutting ad prices as it tries to woo brands back to the platform. |
| 1:26.0 | According to emails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Elon Musk-owned social network that now goes by X |
| 1:33.0 | is offering new incentives on some ad formats in the US and UK. |
| 1:38.0 | It's also warning that if brands don't meet certain spending thresholds, they'll lose their verified status. |
| 1:45.0 | TikTok is launching an e-commerce business to sell Chinese-made goods to US consumers, |
| 1:51.0 | in a move that steps up its rivalry with shopping platforms Xi'en and Timo. |
| 1:56.0 | The video-sharing platform will handle the marketing, after-sale services and logistics for manufacturers and merchants in China. |
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