Hints and tips:
...I don’t wholly blame it for snubbing Apple....
...“The thing that people who don’t work with me don’t understand is that I’m first and foremost an engineer,” he says....
...As Joni Mitchell sang in “Big Yellow Taxi”: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.”...
...“American companies don’t seem to understand how fragmented and diverse India is,” he adds....
...“I don’t know of a guy making money selling electric vehicles,” said Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of Fiat Chrysler....
...Curiously, they don’t spend so much time on one of the great economic and political risks posed by the rise of the electric car: its potential to be a jobs killer....
...“I don’t see Mountain Pass as economically competitive,” adds David Merriman, analyst at Roskill, a consultancy....
...“Over 150,000 drivers who have applied don’t have cars that qualify for Lyft. Millions would like access to this work but don’t have a vehicle that qualifies,” he said....
...“The nice thing about wind, solar and renewables in general is they don’t have a [fossil] fuel component,” he says....
...[But] we don’t plan our product portfolio on that — this is a long-term, capital-intensive business.”...
...“Now that gas prices are so low, those technologies that are going to be required [to improve fuel economy] don’t show a payback.”...
...The development of self-driving cars — including a pilot to use autonomous Chevrolet Volts at GM’s Warren Technical Center, near Detroit — was one of the initiatives laid out at its global business conference...
...The outlines of the Bezos story – the drive west from Texas to Seattle with his wife MacKenzie in his father’s Chevrolet, the decision to start out with an online bookstore, his weird, booming laugh – are...
...But he went on: “We don’t really see the battery electric vehicle as a major player.”...
...“We’ve been evangelising this for years [but] it was up to this point theoretical,” says Don Browne, Telemundo’s president since 2005....
...GM said demand was strongest for its newer models, including the Chevrolet Equinox, Silverado HD, Cruze and Volt. “Crossover” vehicles, which are more fuel-efficient, were also popular last month....
...Its hopes are especially pinned on the small Chevrolet Cruze, designed to reinvigorate its presence in a segment that foreign rivals have dominated....
...The Chevrolet Cruze gives GM its best chance in decades of regaining a foothold in the small-car segment....
...“We don’t know whether it won’t be more of the same problems,” he said....
...GM’s July sales included a 25 per cent advance for its four remaining brands, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC....
...“You don’t have to wait for that monthly meeting,” says Ed Welburn, GM’s design chief, citing a recent decision to change the rear-seat design of a new Cadillac model....
...The job will also include regional responsibility for GM’s Chevrolet brand....
...“It’s a good, comfortable car to drive if you’re not too tall and you don’t care too much about the fit and finish,” Mr Champion says....
...Not like GMAC, General Motor’s financing unit, which received $5bn of federal aid last month, arguing that the money would enable it to relax its lending standards (so people could buy more cars they don...
...Ten years later, five of the former carmaker’s plants in Korea have been busy turning out Chevrolets and other cars for none other than GM under its GM DAT joint venture with Daewoo’s creditors and others...
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