Hints and tips:
...Netflix’s chief executive and co-founder Reed Hastings once boasted that his company’s real rival was “sleep”’....
...Reed Hastings, Netflix chief executive, told the Financial Times that the group was taking responsibility for the carbon footprint of all its branded shows, not just those it makes itself....
...In 1972, Jules Kroll took skills he had honed exposing those who demanded kickbacks from the family printing business to found what became Kroll Inc....
...Dirty work will get no cleaner in a smaller company, and dangerous jobs no safer....
...Carmakers faced intense pressure to co-operate before the crisis from regulators and consumers demanding cleaner and smaller cars....
...Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders seized on the contrasting data from Britain and the Continent to press government for a £2,000 per vehicle bonus for consumers who trade in polluting older cars for cleaner...
...In the near term, many of the industry’s biggest strides in making cars cleaner will come – as before – from making conventional petrol or diesel engines smaller and more efficient....
...As a cleaner pushed a broom between the gleaming 911 sports cars, Boxster roadsters and Cayenne sport utility vehicles, a lone young man quietly studied the dashboard of a Targa 4 from the car’s passenger...
...Despite these doubts, hybrid and electric cars will be helped by the constraints that are emerging for competing cleaner-car technologies....
...China’s carmakers are embracing next-generation cleaner-car technology, motivated more by profit and pragmatism than any special love for the planet....
...If the takeover proceeds Porsche should be able to pool its high-performance, high-emission vehicles with VW’s cleaner and more efficient fleet to avoid the worst of the fines EU lawmakers are expected to...
...The field of low-emission cars has broadened considerably in the two years since the A2 failed, and overall sales of cleaner cars are indeed increasing....
...The push for zero-emission vehicles is becoming stronger as the US Congress, European Commission and local authorities around the world prepare legislation to force carmakers to make their vehicles cleaner...
...The partners hope to profit from the coming wave of cleaner cars. “We believe that electric cars are a macro trend, and their use will grow very fast, and for a long time,” says Mr Bjørseth....
...In keeping with the industry’s growing preoccupation with cleaner cars, they will be showing low-emission vehicles in a range of engine formats, as they have in other recent shows....
...Start with the products: motor vehicles are on the whole cleaner, better engineered, safer, and more stylishly packaged than ever before....
...The newest generation of diesel vehicles are comparable or, in some cases, even cleaner than Toyota’s hybrids....
...Hopefully, whatever I wear when I’m saddling runners this week can be restored by my dry cleaners....
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