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...Volkswagen, BMW and Enel are among the leading European companies to review their renewable investment plans in the bloc in light of the IRA....
...The company has four US factories and one each in China and in Germany....
...Aside from its ambition to scale up a domestic US green industry, Washington has one eye on its Paris Agreement climate commitments....
...In 2005, Jiangling Motors’ Landwind SUV famously earned a zero-star rating, and two years later, Brilliance’s BS6 sedan received just one star....
...Honda, Hyundai, BMW and Ford have all announced multibillion-dollar plans to build batteries in the US following the IRA’s passage....
...It took just one week after Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine for Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz to suspend production and sales in Russia....
...At the same time, he managed to oust the former BMW executive from his role as leader of the VW brand — the largest of the group’s 12 marques — replacing him with Ralf Brandstätter, a local boy and life-long...
...Samsung, which is set to roll out a fifth-generation lithium-ion electric vehicle battery, has already signed several contracts, including one with BMW worth $3.5bn to supply battery cells for the next decade...
...One remedy offered is to recapitalise them with taxpayer support and regulatory forbearance....
...Why let an FT journalist — one he called a liar — rake over all that?...
...Hours before Wednesday’s Ford announcement, Moody’s put seven European carmakers on downgrade watch, including Daimler, Volkswagen and Renault, while also downgrading BMW’s debt from A2 from A1....
...Susanne Klatten, one of the heirs to the fortune of the Quandt family, which owns roughly 35 per cent of carmaker BMW, often disguised her identity after narrowly avoiding being kidnapped as a teenager....
...I would say 900 miles in a day on one of these bikes is totally doable.”...
...In Europe, Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler have come under fire for leaning on government furlough schemes while continuing plans to pay dividends — with one senior German politician describing the decisions...
...Its stronger marques survive as Indian-owned Jaguar Land Rover and the BMW Mini....
...A second scandal, this time involving bribery and VW allegedly paying for prostitutes and even Viagra for workers, broke out in 2005....
...Kuka is one of the leaders in the field, though it is best known for the orange robotic arms that help manufacture cars at Tesla and BMW....
...“During the boom year in 2005 some 40 per cent of our sales were to mainland Chinese,” said Chao of Eslite....
...From 2003 to 2005, he was a director of McLaren Automotive in the UK....
...2005....
...Vladimir Lempert, founder of a factory in the industrial city of Kamianske in east-central Ukraine, strolls proudly along production lines churning out plastic parts used by carmakers including Land Rover, BMW...
...Income inequality is one of the highest in the world, sales of BMWs are soaring and many of the wealthiest families in the country belong to the party elite....
...In 2005, international tourist arrivals (people landing in countries not their own) tallied about 528m. That number reached 1.19bn in 2015 and is expected to hit 1.8bn by 2030....
...“The state should keep out of carmakers,” he said, pointing out that Bavaria was not a shareholder in BMW and Baden-Württemberg not an investor in Daimler....
...This is the lowest increase since our records began in 2005 (when sales were just 1.8m), and compares with an 11 per cent rise last year....
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