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Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)
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Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

Or, if you're trying to make it more directly comparable to 17 million (because humans aren't great at implicitly comparing that many zeros), that would be 56,000 millions. It's not how we normally say it, but 17 vs 56,000 feels different than 17 million vs 56 billion.