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...That was followed by new safety guidelines in December for the use of autonomous vehicles in public transport....
...The group operates private flights and several regional commuter lines, but has said its long-term focus is to develop electric power train technology to upgrade regional plane fleets....
...The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees street transport, has called for the rollout to slow down....
...“You see far less personal car ownership in Europe and the UK, and greater uptake of public transport and other solutions,” he says....
...So does Musk think the stated goal he set for Tesla more than 15 years ago, to lead a transport revolution, has finally been achieved?...
...Archer, which is trying to develop electric aircraft to transport urban commuters across cities, is combining with investment banker Ken Moelis’ $500m special purpose acquisition vehicle Atlas Crest at a...
...But their paths are diverging as electric car sales grow rapidly, while autonomy stalls....
...Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and “smart city” ventures by the internet company and Larry Page,...
...It’s more about building the brand and a more complete transport service, he says. “We never need to actually make any profit on scooters . . . We more see them as a critical part of urban transport.”...
...Executives say a key advantage is the design of their vehicle — not yet unveiled in public — which is electric, bidirectional like a train, and free of a steering wheel or pedals....
...Riding bikes and scooters with an electric boost feels like gaining a superpower....
...Nevertheless, the transatlantic alliance is further acknowledgment that global tie-ups may be essential for automakers to survive disruption created by electric and autonomous technologies....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...General Electric, formed in 1892, was a constituent of the first Dow Jones index — and the only one that remains today....
United’s ejector seat; Shell, Tesco, Toshiba, and Elliott’s feud with BHP and Akzo Nobel
...Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Honeywell and United Technologies are just a few of the companies that could face questions from European authorities over practices in the market for after...
Restructuring plan would inject up to $7bn of equity into US utility
...“It started out being more Segway than runway,” says Mr Brunner, referring to the ill-starred electric scooter once hyped as the future of transport....
...Prefectural Urban Development for Y78bn ($760m), as the Dallas-based group had comfortably beaten rival offers from Fortress Investment Group (Y73.4bn), the US group, and a regional domestic operator, Nankai Electric...
...“When I founded SpaceX, development in space transport and rocket technology had essentially frozen,” says Musk....
...The combined group will be significantly smaller than the industry’s global participants, such as General Electric Aviation and RBS Aviation, which has a fleet of 246 jets....
...George Osborne, the chancellor, has tried hard to attract Chinese investment in transport, utility and energy schemes in the UK....
...Patrick McLoughlin, the recently appointed transport secretary, said in a statement released in the early hours of Wednesday the move was due to “deeply regrettable and completely unacceptable mistakes made...
...The difficult economic climate has claimed other victims among companies focused on green transport....
...In his sparse office at the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power, Japan’s biggest electric utility, Ichiro Takekuro is extolling the merits of nuclear reactors....
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