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...Germany’s Volkswagen has reduced output at sites in China, North America and Europe due to a lack of semiconductors, while Ford has idled some production in the US....
...Mitsubishi Motors to stop making first mass-produced EV Honda and GM join hands to develop cars in North America Honda to launch first mass-produced electric car in October...
...time the US government pumped billions of dollars into an industry to deal with an economic crisis, it effectively took over two of the nation’s largest carmakers, securing large equity stakes in General Motors...
...The move comes at a time when its main US rival Uber has been forced to suspend its driverless car programme across North America, after March’s fatal collision with a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...CK Tan, Nikkei staff writer Sonic boom: K-pop goes global Forget Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy smartphone or Hyundai Motor’s Ioniq electric car....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Olswang, part of Cameron McKenna, will attempt to determine whether Mr Cats and his wife Ruth V....
...At the same time, it is moving more of its resources into North America and China, which account for more than 70 per cent of its global unit sales....
...Scripps: Allen & Co, JPMorgan and Weil Gotshal....
...The decision, taken partly in light of falling demand for smaller vehicles in the SUV-loving US market, sent political ripples through North America, with Donald Trump praising the move....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Additional reporting by James Allen...
...Renesas has been mostly lossmaking since it was formed in 2010 through the government-orchestrated merger of the chip units of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC....
...Mitsubishi Motors has admitted manipulating fuel economy tests in Japan, in a development that leaves another dent in the image of the global car industry. What did Mitsubishi Motors do?...
...Damaging emissions scandals sparked by Volkswagen and most recently involving revelations of test cheating by Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors have rocked the global motor industry in recent months, as company...
...But Brian Soublet, deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, had another worry. Yes, there are potential safety benefits....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...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....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...The project is 64 per cent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, but in a sign of its status as a de facto national project, Toyota, Sumitomo, Mitsui and other assorted Mitsubishi companies are also investors...
...It was the first of a string of epoch-shaping scoops: the alliance in November 1970 between General Motors and Isuzu; Toyota’s first production in North America in Fremont, California in 1982; Nissan’s move...
...INCJ thwarted a rival bid by US private equity group KKR in 2012 to buy a majority stake in Renesas Electronics — a byproduct of government-orchestrated mergers of the chip units of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric...
...Todd Blecher, a spokesman for Boeing, said it had “never seriously entertained” the offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne, a supplier of rocket motors....
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