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...“This has been a big theme this year in auto; everyone has had to step back from the euphoria”....
...Job moves Coutts CEO Peter Flavel has stepped down, saying he bore “ultimate” responsibility for the bank’s treatment of former UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage....
...“We were, in a sense, being hunted,” Yeomans, a diesel mechanic by trade, told me. (Grende did not respond to requests for comment.)...
...In the 1980s, when oil prices crashed to historic lows, cars in town bore bumper stickers that read, “Can the last person to leave turn the lights out?”...
...There are big implications for the pace of the energy transition....
...Producing renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and other biofuels, is a key pillar of that strategy, alongside hydrogen and carbon capture and storage....
...(Washington Post) The UK will ban the sale of diesel trucks from 2040, and VW says EU rules will make electric vehicles more profitable than petrol cars....
...It will allow regional governments to set emissions caps for big power companies and lets firms buy the right to pollute from others with a lower carbon footprint, according to AFP....
...But they are in retreat because of tightening regulation, the changing nature of investment and the shifting focus of big business. Are they as obsolete as tape recorders or diesel cars? (FT)...
...Our Big Read has more and check out today's Special Report on Cyber Security. 2....
...Mr Kempf said business expected the government to provide answers to the big questions facing society....
...The investors who poured in late bore the brunt of it....
...“Volkswagen is not a typical corporation with its highly concentrated structure, the big influence for the Porsche family, Lower Saxony and Qatar,” he said....
...Repsol, the Spanish energy major, is teaming up with Google to deploy the technology group’s big data and artificial intelligence tools across its refineries, in the latest sign of oil companies turning...
...You saw yesterday Fiat Chrysler, big, big factory going to be built in this country as opposed to another country… I appreciate it very much from Fiat Chrysler....
...Comparing the SpaceX rocket to the SLS is like comparing “a golf cart and a diesel pick-up truck”, says Jim Chilton, president of network and space systems at Boeing....
...Standing before shareholders in Ingolstadt last month, Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler bore unfortunate news....
...Hans Dieter Pötsch, VW chairman, bore the brunt of investor criticism during the day-long meeting, but he appeared untroubled as one shareholder after another inveighed against his handling of the worst...
...The email from meatpacker JBS to the biggest futures exchange bore the subject line “Algo Question”....
...He started with small solar plants for electricity-hungry districts and rooftop systems for companies to replace costly diesel generators....
...The large jump also bore the hallmarks of short-covering by funds who had been betting against the price....
...“The union and the state of Lower Saxony are the big winner of the power struggle at VW,” says Mr Dudenhöffer of the University of Duisburg-Essen....
...Most cars sold in Europe also have diesel engines, which cannot be driven in China....
...The policy bore fruit. As governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, Mr Kolomoisky held the line against the Moscow-backed insurgents who now rule large swaths of the east....
...BT’s coup, observers noted, bore many hallmarks of Sky’s own negotiating nous. And the company is not the only one of Sky’s rivals relying on its alumni....
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