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...When it comes to fleet EV sales, General Motors and Ford are for now concentrating more on commercial operators than rental companies....
...Shares in Hyundai Motor surged after the carmaker confirmed early-stage discussions with Apple about building an electric vehicle in what could mark the US tech group’s eagerly awaited move into the industry...
...Under Krafcik, formerly the CEO of Hyundai’s North American operations, Waymo refocused efforts on the self-driving system alone — what it calls “the Driver” — choosing to partner with companies rather than...
...And another thing: the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sent requests for information to groups involved in the listing of blank-cheque companies, intensifying regulatory scrutiny of a booming area...
...Hyundai’s Ioniq, for instance, already matches Tesla’s mass market vehicle in terms of miles driven per kWh, while General Motors’ Bolt is not far behind....
...“One little company can really mess up the supply chain for several automakers,” said Kristin Dziczek, vice-president of industry, labour and economics at the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan....
...Cruise, the self-driving group owned by General Motors, last month postponed a rollout of the ride-hailing service it had expected to begin this year, saying more testing was required....
...However, as Vingroup and other rising companies increase their influence and roll out powerful new technologies, civil society activists say the need for proper scrutiny is essential....
...AmorePacific Group, the largest cosmetics producer in South Korea, suffered a 40 per cent net profit drop to Won489bn for 2017. Hyundai Motor also took a hit from Chinese retaliation....
...Hyundai, the second largest player in India, plans to bring in Kia Motors, a company under its umbrella, to boost its share of the local market....
...Companies including Toyota and Audi are developing their own self-driving technology, while taxi app group Uber is spending millions funding autonomous car research at Carnegie Mellon University....
...As well as banking on swift consumer uptake of EVs, Better Place gambled on new technology....
...One of the sector’s strongest performers used to be one of the US industry’s most distressed: Delphi, the Michigan-based supplier group formerly owned by GM, which underwent a top-to-toe restructuring after...
...The new management team is a mixture of outsiders and company veterans....
...The weekend before last, Dan Akerson, General Motors chief executive, summoned his top 270 managers for a meeting at the towering Marriott hotel that forms part of the carmaker’s Renaissance Center headquarters...
...Explaining his decision to forsake one of America’s most successful technology companies for the uncertainty of Detroit, Mr Liddell says that “this has the potential to be one of the great turnround stories...
...Hyundai Motor, which hit a record high on Monday, fell 1.1 per cent to Won129,000. Korea Electric gained 2.5 per cent to 36,600 after Citigroup raised the company to “buy” from “hold”....
...The greatest corporate victims of the Great Recession were developed-market icons like AIG, Citigroup and GM rather than China Life, Itau-Unibanco, or Hyundai Motors....
...Hyundai Motor climbed 4.3 per cent to Won95,600, having earlier touched its highest for 3½ years. Hynix Semiconductor rose 3.9 per cent to Won19,900....
...China’s Beijing Automotive Industry Corp (BAIC) has expressed an interest in buying a stake in Opel together with the rest of General Motors’ European operations, for which three other companies have already...
...At GM’s Technical Centre in Bangalore, which hosts the new design studio, 1,000 employees are already involved in R&D....
...Sources for charts: DisplaySearch; ING; JPMorgan; company; Samsung Group...
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