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...Recently it has signed contracts with several rivals, including Ford, General Motors and Rivian, to use its NACS charging standard....
...The FT visited Detroit this week to take the pulse of the Motor City — stay tuned for our report later this weekend. The history of the Lions overlaps with the history of Detroit itself....
...Robyn Copeland, a 68-year-old librarian and Trump supporter from the suburbs of Des Moines, Iowa, said she “used to listen to Rush Limbaugh all the time”....
...AEL, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is one of a few independent annuities operators remaining amid a wave of consolidation and has more than $70bn in total assets....
...Moines, is a baseball stadium modelled after the 1980s sports classic film Field of Dreams....
...Rather, Anant Bhalla is based in sleepy West Des Moines, Iowa, running a retirement annuities purveyor that is captivating Wall Street’s savviest financiers....
...An American investment firm — which scored a big success in calling out Nikola Motors — has alleged fraud....
...“We know that the purchasing power [of] people in many regions of the world will not necessarily increase,” De Meo said....
...Thanks to the producer Flo de Schlichting, executive producer Jo Wheeler, production assistance from Amalie Sortland and mix from Chris O’Shaughnessy....
...Hertz, once the meme stock de jour, needed to do something to regain relevance....
...Rising paint prices are “a problem for us when we’re repairing so many cars”, said Martin Milliner, claims director at LV= General Insurance, one of the UK’s largest motor insurers....
...Lucid to go public in biggest Spac mergerCalifornia-based electric vehicle start-up Lucid Motors has agreed to go public in a $24bn deal with a blank cheque company controlled by veteran dealmaker Michael...
...Meanwhile, hedge funds Two Sigma Investments and DE Shaw are nursing significant losses after an army of retail investors on Reddit upended the markets buying stocks such as GameStop....
...That could leave GIP holding a majority stake in a listed company if it won more than 50 per cent but didn’t get the 75 per cent needed to de-list Signature....
...The meeting prompted Cummings to build a Norton Commando motor from scratch and fit it into a Featherbed frame in order to go racing too – something else he had no idea how to do....
...However, junior employees were less than impressed with a UBS town hall meeting earlier this week where senior staff recommended exercise to de-stress....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 5 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...On the day that the final car facilities across Europe halted, General Motors also drew $16bn from its credit facility, hot on the heels of Ford....
...The complete rethink led to a skateboard design with in-axle motors. The familiar UPS van shape, with its storage over the driver’s head, remains but it is sleeker and has a larger window....
...General Motors, 19. You get the picture....
...Glen De Vos, chief technology officer at Aptiv, an automotive tech supplier, said carmakers have been stumbling in their efforts to become software-defined companies....
...VW has to rely on debt to finance its overhaul, and has “de facto no equity capital market access”, he said. “What Diess is doing is braver than what Elon Musk is doing....
...The frontrunner is believed to be Luca de Meo, who leads VW’s Spanish Seat brand, a role that makes him no stranger to negotiating national identities within a single business....
...Mr Buckley says the TCFD is becoming the de facto standard for climate-related risks, while SASB can take on this role for wider ESG reporting....
...“If the turnout tomorrow night is low, we are going to lose,” Iowa frontrunner Bernie Sanders told a Des Moines Super Bowl party on Sunday. “If turnout is high, we win.”...
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