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...Vanessa Sea has joined Mudrick Capital Management as head of consultant relations and North America distribution, based in New York....
...The new Lotus is expected to enter the Chinese market next year, before moving on to North America and Europe....
...All Porsches are made in Germany, aside from the Cayenne SUV, which is made in Slovakia....
...Yet as Chandler notes, the railroads eventually ended up transforming America....
...Indeed, Elon Musk’s detail-light scheme announced this week to take his electric car company private at a valuation of more than $80bn, including debt, appeared in part a response to those bets....
...Patagonia v Donald Trump Late last year visitors to Patagonia’s website were greeted by a black page which stated “The President Stole Your Land.”...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Related links: What Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility – FT Alphaville Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense?...
...This year the company opened two grocery pick-up kiosks in Seattle, where customers can order groceries online and then pick them up without getting out of their car....
...For its part, SNC-Lavalin has a market capitalisation of around C$8bn and more than half of its C$8.5bn in annual revenues come from North America....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...If being driven across a capital city in an ordinary taxi fails to raise your pulse, how about the prospect of a chauffeur-driven Porsche?...
...A person familiar with the Porsche and Piech families, who hold a controlling stake in VW, said the focus was on Strategy 2025 and finalising plans to fix US cars affected by the scandal, rather than corporate...
...That plays a crucial role in facilitating sales of new cars, bolstering broad economic activity. The subprime auto ABS market grew to its largest ever size last year....
...French blow for Uber A French court found the car-hailing company and two of its executives guilty of starting an “illegal” car-booking service with its now defunct UberPop, in the first criminal ruling...
...It isn’t fun.” ————————- Read more Meet the seven robots you need to know Robot writer v human journalist: see the face-off at the FT How has the robot economy triggered a global investment explosion...
...This means the data being thrown off by cars, aeroplane engines, elevators and other industrial products, supplying the raw material to turn dumb manufactured goods into what he calls “systems of intelligence...
...Since leaving Nymex, Mr Weinstein has pinballed between jobs including speculating on houses, hawking shoes on eBay and dealing Lexus cars....
...The breathless talk is of another surge in technological innovation, the rapid development of virtual reality, driverless cars, 3D printing, robots, personalised medicines, the application of artificial...
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...(FT) Murdoch v Trump: Fox and The Hair Donald Trump has gone to war with an unlikely enemy....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...“The test of fire will be in North America,” says Mr Asumendi....
...At the Frankfurt motor show this month Audi, Porsche and BMW all promised a range of upgraded electric options....
...When a Porsche abruptly pulled into the lane in front of me, the Tesla responded quickly, slowing to the distance between cars I had previously set....
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