Hints and tips:
...Glencore already has cobalt offtake agreements with battery makers SK Innovation and Samsung SDI, and carmakers BMW and General Motors....
...The company once again bucked the recent trend in which the world’s biggest carmakers report lower sales on supply shortages, with General Motors suffering a 20 per cent year-on-year decline in US sales...
...Ford on Thursday idled its Latin American plants, a day after announcing a shutdown alongside General Motors and Fiat Chrysler across the US, Canada and Mexico....
...General Motors and Ford, whose trucks generate a large portion of their profits, will maintain their hold over the US truck market....
...His suspicions were proved right when in 1983 GM struck a deal with Toyota to reopen a plant in Fremont, California (now owned by Tesla Motors)....
...In its most recent 10-Q it stated: that the capital spend per unit of Model 3 manufacturing capacity at Gigafactory Shanghai will be less than that of the ramp of our line in Fremont . . ....
...There are already signs that his role is having an impact on the business, and Mr Musk has “hardly been seen” at Tesla’s Fremont factory in California for the past month, according to one person close to...
...Tesla’s own ambitions to produce 1m cars in 2020 are contingent on a new Chinese facility opening, and it significantly increasing output at its existing Fremont plant....
...“If Elon stepped down and remained a shareholder, and if [General Motors CEO] Mary Barra stepped in would the shares go up or down?”...
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...We plugged in a gross margin of 11 per cent originally, noting the Model 3 had a negative gross margin in the second quarter including non-cash items, and given ongoing teething problems at Tesla's Fremont...
...Oh, and don't spend time reading the Tesla Motor Club forums threads on build quality, clearly all the contributors are short the stock....
...Toyota bought roughly 3 per cent of Tesla for $50m in 2010 as part of a deal that included the sale of its assembly plant in Fremont, California, to Elon Musk’s electric car start-up....
...Tesla's vehicle factory in Fremont, California is capable of producing up to 500,000 cars a year, Mr Musk said last week, but its battery plant in Reno, Nevada is still under construction....
...However, he has cut his forecast for production next year to 1,600-1,800 a week to account for the challenges of running two different products from its Fremont factory....
...At the Frankfurt motor show this month Audi, Porsche and BMW all promised a range of upgraded electric options....
...It was the first of a string of epoch-shaping scoops: the alliance in November 1970 between General Motors and Isuzu; Toyota’s first production in North America in Fremont, California in 1982; Nissan’s move...
...Carl Fremont, chief digital officer at media agency MEC, said: “Marketers don’t want to be associated with anything negative or controversial....
...Tesla Motors showed off the first production version of the sedan it hopes will make it the first pure mass-market electric car company and said that more than 6,000 advanced orders had already accounted...
...Its competitor Tesla Motors, which is already building $109,000 electric roadsters, will from 2012 produce its mass-market “Model S” at another former GM plant in Fremont, California for which it paid $42m...
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