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...Among premium services popular with middle-class Chinese consumers are free designated drivers and shared office spaces, as well as free repairs....
...Meanwhile, car insurance and auto repair shot up 2 per cent and 3 per cent, respectively, in March....
...Citi was also a leader on a $310mn loan to Sunbit, a buy-now, pay-later company that specialises in auto repair shops and dentist offices....
...The door panel arrived at Boeing’s factory in Washington with damaged adjacent rivets, forcing workers to open it for repairs by a team from Spirit....
...In the US, they rose nearly two-thirds last year, outpacing the 46 per cent increase in EV sales. Total hybrid sales of about 1.2mn cars matched EV sales figures....
...EVs were facing higher incidents of accidents and damage that were more costly to repair than expected....
...Last year, the UN held its first global water conference for 46 years, which yielded a commitment from hundreds of governments and businesses on better water stewardship....
...If the whole underside had to be replaced, it would lead to a significant rise in the number of vehicles deemed too costly to repair....
...Škoda Auto Volkswagen’s share remained flat at 2.46 per cent during the period. Nissan and Renault’s combined annual capacity stands at about 500,000 units....
...This prompted Ford to price its Mustang Mach-E between $46,000 and $64,000....
...The underlying trends here are much weirder than a simple price war, as they include a new law in Florida, pricier car repairs, and possibly a TikTok trend....
...We think of companies like Toyota, of course, in the auto sector, you think of SoftBank in tech and Sony obviously in entertainment....
...I would say it’s being in the auto industry.” The company now was emphasising “design for manufacturability”, he said....
...These include his top price of £30.4mn ($46.3mn), made for another 1986 work in 2015....
...Halfords, the UK bike retailer, is down over 46 per cent....
...GAAP auto gross-margins reached 32.9% and, for the first time, exceeded 30%....
...Paint comprises almost a quarter of the cost to repair a car, said David Creswell, chair of trade group Auto Body Professionals Club....
...For US mutual fund managers as a whole, Tesla alone crimped their relative performance by 0.46 of a percentage point in October, according to Wells Fargo analysts, helping turn what was heading towards being...
...Now a potentially dangerous problem has prompted the government to order software repairs to almost 300,000 of those vehicles....
...Blackstone said it “intend[s] to provide capital and approved financings for necessary repairs and maintenance”....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...A flood of funding into Chinese electric vehicle start-ups last year boosted local rivals Xpeng and Li Auto....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 25. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved. Related stories Beyond repair?...
...Motoring on: petrol and road repairs are M&A’s new hotspot In need of a break and wary of flying, DD has been hitting the road this summer....
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