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...Cook spent Wednesday meeting Apple’s Chinese suppliers, including the head of electric-car maker BYD and executives from Lens Technology and Changying Precision Technology....
...Elon Musk’s electric-car maker Tesla on Thursday was sued by a US civil rights agency, which accused the company of tolerating “open hostility and racism” directed at black employees....
...It is hard to imagine the folks in Cupertino waiting this long to deliver a new and improved Duke of York....
...Its electric vehicle and battery sectors are also world leaders, but not all its solutions are environmentally friendly....
...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...The Series 4 model with cellular connectivity starts at $499, $100 more than its equivalent a year ago, as the smartwatch added a new medical-grade electric heart rate sensor that has been approved by US...
...The electric carmaker also said vehicles in or on their way to Belgium could be included in the base of collateral for its Dutch borrowings....
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...Apple’s automotive project, code-named “Project Titan”, began in 2014 as an attempt to design and build an electric car from the ground up....
...In the age of the PC, it was all about Intel v Advanced Micro Devices, with the former supplying processors for four out of five computers sold and AMD mopping up most of the remainder....
...Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Has Meg Whitman finished her work at HPE?...
...China is seeking to become a world leader in electric cars, part of an ambitious industrial policy named Made In China 2025....
...Last year, the company abandoned near-term 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...
...The hire has been seen as Tesla’s highest-profile recruit from Apple since the electric-car maker poached Doug Field, former head of Mac hardware engineering, in 2013 to run its vehicle programmes....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...The research lab is based in several unmarked buildings around Sunnyvale, close to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters in Silicon Valley....
...Early buyers of electric cars in the 1990s coined a term to describe the gnawing dread that their battery might run out before they got home: “range anxiety”....
...Hundreds of Apple staff have been working on an electric car for more than two years, people familiar with the project say....
...The Cupertino-based company did not say how many customers had been affected....
...Apple veteran Bob Mansfield has been put in charge of the technology group’s secretive electric car project, according to a person with knowledge of the move, after the departure of its previous leader Steve...
.... —————- Jeff Immelt, the chairman and chief executive of General Electric, warned in May of the dangers of a raucous US presidential election and a rise of protectionism....
...Its head office in Cupertino keeps a strong hold on the core design of its products....
...“Maybe the logic of building everything themselves is not going to be viable because things are moving so fast” in electric and autonomous vehicles, Mr Dediu says....
...He left the electric car pioneer a few months ago, according to one person close to the company. His move to Apple was first reported by electric car news site Electrek....
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