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...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra said this year that the company had ordered two “giga press” machines with the intention of using the technology for mass-market vehicles....
...Ford and General Motors have vowed separately to spend between $30bn and $35bn to develop new EVs. Each has unveiled a suite of new models....
...Bob Lutz, a former vice-chair of General Motors and president of Chrysler who was once doubtful about Tesla’s chances of survival, now calls Musk’s impact on the auto industry “unbelievable — nothing short...
...Root Insurance, a motor insurtech that also listed last year, uses machine learning throughout its operations....
...The previous year it sold a book of life insurance business to a consortium led by Bob Diamond’s Atlas Merchant Capital....
...its batteries to its motors and into the regenerative braking system....
...The tobacco company Imperial Brands added Bob Kunze-Concewitz, chief of Italy’s Campari Group, to its board. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett hired Owen Lysak as a partner in its London practice....
...“There is no doubt that Elon Musk is a charismatic, brilliant salesman, and he has built a solid brand” with Tesla, said Bob Lutz, a former top executive at all three of the big US carmakers and a longtime...
...He forecasts it could still be worth a lofty $45bn — close to where General Motors trades today....
...Bob Shanks will retire as CFO at the end of the year and be replaced by Tim Stone, a 20-year veteran of Amazon who also served as CFO of Snap, the parent company of youth-focused messaging platform Snapchat...
...So here's Apple's non-employee director compensation for 2018: Just $2.8m for this lot, which includes Disney chief executive Bob Iger, and climate change evangelist Al Gore....
...“Part of it has to do with America being the heartland of capitalism,” said Bob Hoyler, research analyst at Euromonitor....
...Xiaopeng Motors, also known as XMotors, did not immediately respond to requests for comment....
...“This is an abuse of presidential authority,” said Bob Corker, Republican leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 14, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...General Motors has said it intends to roll out a self-driving taxi fleet in the US in 2019....
...While Tesla has been grabbing all the headlines, General Motors has been quietly building mass market electric cars....
...Earlier this year, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk resigned from the Strategic and Policy Forum after the President announced the US withdrawal from the Paris...
...When General Motors spun off its car parts supplier in 1999, the idea was to unburden itself from a low-margin, commoditised business....
...Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google: General Motors: “GM will not waver from our commitment to the environment and our position on climate change has not changed....
...Two others, Tom Kalaris — lieutenant of Bob Diamond, head of the investment bank at the time — and Richard Boath, ex-chairman of financial services, were also charged with a single count of false representation...
...efforts to build an electric vehicle itself and refocused its development work on the autonomous systems that underpin self-driving cars, people familiar with the situation have said, as company veteran Bob...
...I think it is one of the best sedans in the world,” says Bob Lutz, who served as a senior executive at each of the big three US carmakers....
...Previously announced members include General Motors’ Mary Barra, JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Walt Disney’s Bob Iger, among others....
...Still, Bob Willens, a tax expert, said that some companies “could very well prefer that the rate not change, as odd as that sounds, because of this phenomenon.”...
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