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Almost three years after sharing renders for its electric goods hauler, commercial e-truck startup Volta Trucks has announced that it's heading to the US. A Class 7 Volta Zero design-verification prototype is set to roll into California ahead of pilot trials in late 2023.The US vehicle debut at the Advanced Clean Transportation expo in Anaheim next month follows the granting of type approval certification in Europe, which allows the company to manufacture and sell its models across the continent. Second-generation…

via Lionsgate By design, action thrillers aren’t exactly beholden to such trivialities as logic, common sense, and a story that seamlessly connects a set of increasingly far-fetched set of dots, but The Next Three Days would have arguably turned out a great deal better had it not opted to play everything with such a solemnly straight face. A remake of 2008’s acclaimed French feature Anything for Her, the Hollywood reinvention recruited an all-star cast featuring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde,…

Well, here we are on the cusp of another bear market. If the S&P 500 falls a few more percentage points from the time of the writing of this column, we’ll be in our fourth bear market in 22 years. Bear markets are generally defined as declines of 20% or more. We can debate until the cows come home why we are in this situation, what needs to be done to fix it, and when it will get corrected. But nobody knows how this process will proceed and what’s in store for markets as the Federal Reserve ramps up its…