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...Chart of the day Millions of people watched the total solar eclipse yesterday as it swept across Central and North America....
...Swedish truckmaker Volvo AB is already selling more electric trucks than rivals Daimler Truck or Traton....
...Daimler trucks said the credits had conformed to the “strict protocols” governing offsets when generated....
...There are already about 40 Daimler electric trucks on the road in North America, with more than 1m miles on the clock in total....
...Two-thirds of America’s consumer goods are transported to market by trucks, but labour laws limiting drivers’ working shifts to a maximum of 11 hours mean that longer journeys must often be broken up across...
...With a cascade of factory closures across Europe, North America and Asia, the shortages are likely to continue well into next year....
...JLR will shut its Halewood and Castle Bromwich plants in England from Monday for at least a week, the first idling of its UK sites, while Ford announced or extended shutdowns at 10 sites across North America...
...For Toyota the additional boost came from North America, where its quarterly operating profit margin improved to 6.6 per cent from 3.9 per cent a year earlier as dealers in the US offered fewer incentives...
...Its residents call it, fondly, “the last free place in America”. But it doesn’t feel like a hangover from some untroubled past....
...The company will raise close to $500m, which will be used to fund its expansion across Europe and growth in North America, as the group aims to ride the growing demand for battery vehicles....
...We cut our volume assumptions for 2020-21E, as the April-May trough came out below our initial expectations, and we now see a more swoosh-style recovery in Europe and North America....
...Public transport use is very low and trucks are still driving far fewer miles across the country than before the virus hit, although traffic congestion has returned more quickly as people opt for cars over...
...The company also has a strong presence in Brazil, but lacks exposure to North America....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...The big question is whether the pace of the Chinese rebound can be replicated in Europe and North America....
...Daimler Trucks has bought a majority stake in self-driving technology group Torc Robotics, the first European takeover of a leading US company in the sector....
...The move would cut the company’s costs by reducing the need for truck drivers, and aid compliance with California’s tough air pollution rules....
...The group announced the investment as it unveiled the Freightliner Cascadia, which will go on sale in 2019 and be the first truck in North America to feature partially-automated assistance, at the Consumer...
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch named Daimler, Volkswagen, Porsche and Peugeot’s parent company, PSA, as top picks....
...Vancouver lies on North America’s west coast, the same timezone as LA....
...Last Wednesday, Mr Trump said the 25 per cent tariff imposed on imported pick-up trucks and commercial vans from markets outside North America in the 1960s had given a big boost to US vehicle production....
...The largest number of affected trucks are likely to be in North America and Europe, it added, where it sold about 150,000 units last year....
...President Trump has often railed against the discrepancy, although tends not to mention that the US also imposes tariffs of 25 per cent on vans and pick-up trucks — which the German carmakers would like...
...Meanwhile, shares in BMW were down 2 per cent, Volkswagen shares declined 1.1 per cent, and Daimler shares were off by 1.4 per cent....
...First, growth-hungry Chinese carmaker Geely is in advanced talks to take a 50 per cent stake in Daimler’s struggling Smart brand....
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