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...Aiming to build the local workforce, Normal’s community college developed a programme to train students on the manufacture and repair of electric vehicles and batteries....
...The union is demanding universal pay rises, the end of the existing two-tier pay system, and the installation of air conditioning into trucks, among other things....
...food trucks offering everything from empanadas to currywurst....
...Paint comprises almost a quarter of the cost to repair a car, said David Creswell, chair of trade group Auto Body Professionals Club....
...Motoring on: petrol and road repairs are M&A’s new hotspot In need of a break and wary of flying, DD has been hitting the road this summer....
...A 9.7 per cent stake in Daimler, held in Mr Li’s name and worth about $9bn, is the latest addition to Mr Li’s swelling portfolio — and the biggest auto investment yet by a Chinese entity....
...The rationale behind the deal is simple for Buffett: trucks are the backbone of America's transport infrastructure (whether they become driverless trucks or not)....
...When he returned to China he started a truck leasing business, Kaiyuan Auto Trade, in Shijiazhuang. “There was strong demand for trucks, people just couldn’t get bank loans,” he says....
...Similar models are being explored for auto theft and gang activity....
...During the stoppage, other drivers get out of their cars and mingle on the track. Keselowski, driver of the Miller Lite car, takes out his cellphone and posts pictures of the scene on Twitter....
...While under Daimler it took Chrysler several years to earn a stand opposite Mercedes-Benz’s at the Detroit auto show, Fiat showed a Ferrari and its 500 model right alongside the Jeeps and Ram trucks in January...
...refrigerated trucks....
...Mr Miller, the son of a Lloyd’s underwriter, started his entrepreneurial career as a teenager by making and selling cufflinks to men’s outfitters....
...Jac Nasser, Ford’s CEO from 1999 to 2001, led an expansion that saw it buy overseas brands such as Volvo and Land Rover and non-core businesses like car repair company Kwik-Fit....
...Mr Feinberg, a motorcycle rider and truck enthusiast, is said to have spoken passionately to the GM board last year....
...South Africa, then the subject of a broad international boycott due to apartheid, helped the young filmmaker by providing tanks, trucks and other equipment....
...“Legacy costs are killing us,” Mr Miller says, speaking of high wages, pensions and healthcare. “But it is going to stop....
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