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...Instead, professionals who once planned to change the world through politics, activism or charity have been drawn by the chance to do so with a profit motive attached....
...as its fleet of petrol and diesel cars....
...He was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in jail and a $400,000 fine for his role in the carmaker’s conspiracy to cheat on diesel emissions tests. His lawyers had asked for a much lower jail term....
...The Germans must overhaul their operations to make electric cars, while continuing to invest across the board in clean and efficient petrol and diesel technologies....
...The two companies have been selected from a shortlist of seven — which included Bombardier, Siemens and Electro-Motive Diesel — to supply at least 1,800 diesel and electric locomotives over 11 years from...
...The company did not raise any money from the flotation, with nearly all the shares sold by sister company Samsung Electro-Mechanics Company, which offloaded its entire stake of 7.9 per cent....
...Battery electric vehicles struggle to match the single-trip mileage of a petrol or diesel car....
...The US has two big high-technology makers of diesel electric locomotives in GE and Electro-Motive Diesel, a subsidiary of Caterpillar, but Chinese companies are competing aggressively in international markets...
...The high-powered Euro 4000 brings Vossloh into competition with two of the leading forces in the European rail market – Bombardier and Siemens – as well as the US’s Electro-Motive Diesel and General Electric...
...In June, as head of the rail services division, Mr Oberhelman led the company’s $820m acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the US’s largest rail locomotive manufacturers, from Berkshire Partners...
...Yet many involved believe GE’s transportation division now faces some of the toughest challenges in the 20 years since it took over market leadership from Electro-Motive Diesel....
...Construction equipment maker Caterpillar declined 2.5 per cent to $59.27 after it said its Progress Rail Services unit would buy Electro-Motive Diesel for $820m in cash from Berkshire Partners and Greenbriar...
...General Electric and Caterpillar’s Electro-Motive Diesel division – the two dominant suppliers of freight locomotives in the huge North American market – also face far stiffer competition than before....
...Pulling a high proportion of them has been a Class 66, designed by Electro-Motive Diesel, the second-largest locomotive supplier to North America....
...The diesel freight locomotive markets are dominated by the US’s General Electric and Electro-Motive Diesel....
...Electro-Motive Diesel, a former subsidiary of General Motors now owned by private equity, has sold 650 of its Class 66 diesel locomotive to European freight train operators since 1998....
...About 1,000 litres of water were needed to create one litre of bio–diesel, he said....
...Mr Hilary distrusted corporate motives. Mr North saw wealth creation as more important....
...Mercedes points to a comparison done by Auto Bild, the German car magazine, between one of its diesel sport utility vehicles and the new Lexus RX400h, a hybrid offroader, which found the diesel was more...
...The world's largest car company is in talks to sell its Electro-Motive locomotive division....
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