Hints and tips:
...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...
...GM will delay building electrified versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pick-up trucks at a Michigan plant until 2025, instead of next year....
...haulage vehicles called Kenworth and Peterbilt....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 13 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc....
...trucks....
...Earlier this year it signed partnerships with Volvo Trucks and Paccar, the maker of Peterbilt and Kenworth heavy-duty trucks....
...I’m sitting behind the wheel of a recently minted Rivian R1T pick-up truck, about to take a test drive around a track near the company’s 3.3-million square-foot manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois, 132...
...Lordstown Motors is under investigation by federal prosecutors, while Nikola was found to have faked a prototype of its electric truck....
...Smart read Don’t miss this compelling profile in the FT Weekend Magazine of Robert Scaringe, founder and chief executive of electric truck producer Rivian....
...and Kenworth heavy-duty trucks....
...Kenworth heavy-duty trucks....
...Here’s what the day in the life of a British truck driver looks like....
...A new division called BytePlus quietly launched in June and already lists customers all over the world, including in the US. 4....
...Guillen’s departure from the auto division follows the company’s extension of its line-up to include the Model Y sport utility vehicle, and the opening of its plant in China and development of a facility...
...Last week, Elon Musk anointed himself “technoking” of Tesla, the electric car company where he holds the more conventional role of chief executive....
...Even the jovial job titles were a piece of corporate spin: distracting from a reshuffle in Tesla’s truck division, whose first vehicle is, would you believe, behind schedule....
...The two companies said they would work together to build an autonomous version of Daimler’s Freightliner Cascadia, a Class 8 truck currently equipped with driver-assist technology....
...Airbus John Harrison Group general counsel Since 2015, John Harrison has played a key part in the integration of Airbus’s divisions, and the simplification of its governance....
...truck, as part of a $2bn deal with the Detroit carmaker....
...The business acts as a broker connecting large companies to a network of truck drivers....
...TuSimple has signed a deal to jointly develop self-driving trucks with VW’s Traton truck division, with the German company seeking to take advantage of the San Diego start-up’s advances in turning and night...
...with almost 400 service stations and truck stops....
...Now there’s a third category of company blessed to be owned by private equity....
...There are other complications to worry about too, like the impact of a state-backed loan on existing lenders, and the restructuring of a company’s balance sheet that would be needed to access the funds....
...Look, bit it's been a very pleasing set of results for the company following on from a strong year of last year....
International Edition