Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...US group Lithia agreed to buy Pendragon’s dealerships and its used car marketplace CarStore last year, following a protracted bidding war that involved former boss Trevor Finn working with Sweden’s Hedin...
...Jacobsson co-founded the $6.7bn Swedish buy now, pay later pioneer Klarna in 2005 alongside the group’s current leader Siemiatkowski....
...It also struck a deal to buy 100,000 Tesla cars....
...Malek noted that it was not guaranteed that demand for oil and gas would peak in 2030, as predicted by the International Energy Agency, as the populations of developing countries begin to buy more cars and...
...Your leader (“The electric vehicle revolution is running out of steam”, FT View, April 11) highlights the shortage of public charging points as a major reason for customers’ reluctance to buy electric cars...
...In the US and Europe, EVs remain significantly more expensive to buy than engine rivals, though they have lower running costs that make them more economical in the long run....
...The UK’s Coventry Building Society has agreed heads of terms to buy Co-op Bank for £780mn in a deal that would return the private equity-owned bank to mutual ownership....
...The UK’s Coventry Building Society has agreed to buy the Co-operative Bank for £780mn in a deal that would eventually return the private equity-owned lender to mutual ownership....
...But if they sell a better car that also undercuts the west, it’s impossible to catch up.”...
...Schmidt said: “On EU CO₂ targets, think of a limbo dancer that has to get under a bar that is reduced every five years.”...
...It’s glowy, not glittery, and pigmented enough to last (£54, cultbeauty.co.uk)....
...Volvo Cars will stop funding its Polestar electric sports car brand and look at selling its shareholding to parent company Geely, as its latest results showed profits had been dragged down by the lossmaking...
...Meanwhile, global co-head of investment banking Taylor Wright sold £54,000 in shares via Solium Capital and a further $428,000 (£338,000) worth of American depositary shares via nominee broker Morgan Stanley...
...Saskia Ozinga Co-Founder, Fern NGO, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, UK...
...“They are simply good cars and people buy them,” he said in an interview, referring to Chinese vehicles. “The American ones [producers] seem to struggle to bring good electric vehicles [to market].”...
...I’m gonna wait and buy it at the bottom’,” said Stephen Dyer, partner and managing director at consultancy AlixPartners in Shanghai. “It actually slowed down sales when that happened.”...
...These debts include mortgages and loans for cars, rental equipment and yachts....
...“They prefer to buy cars under corporate accounts,” he added. “We are offering some discounts and promotions for some models but things are not getting better with the economy also in bad shape.”...
...selfridges.com Æquō marble Bow light by Florence Louisy, POA Studio EO glass and Rosa Portogallo marble Pink Drill 33 vase, £1,670, ssense.com Kelly Wearstler Studio marble Nudo chair, $9,900 Tiffany & Co...
...Private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, the cofounder of Carlyle Group, plans to buy the Baltimore Orioles baseball team alongside an investor group including Michael Arougheti, the chief executive...
...Honda is falling further behind in the battery EV race after scrapping a $5bn plan to develop affordable battery-powered cars with General Motors last year....
...US-based International Paper has agreed to buy UK competitor DS Smith in a £7.8bn deal, trumping a bid from London-listed Mondi as consolidation across the paper and packaging industry accelerates....
...That puts BYD in direct competition with gasoline cars....
...Nissan and Honda began talks in January, and the scope of their co-operation includes software, core EV components and auto-intelligence technology....
...Car shoppers were far more likely to lease electric vehicles this year than buy them, as they took advantage of a $7,500 tax credit available under the Biden administration’s clean energy subsidies....
International Edition