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...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra said this year that the company had ordered two “giga press” machines with the intention of using the technology for mass-market vehicles....
...The progress made by Chinese companies and regulators in Beijing poses a new challenge to the west, which is already lagging behind China in the development of electric vehicles, according to analysts, and...
...Needing to run their machines 24/7, many site their operations in places with cheap coal-fired electricity, such as Iran, Xinjiang province in China and Kazakhstan....
...Take electric vehicle start-up XL Fleet as an example. Shares in the company shot up almost 70 per cent to a peak of $35 after it went public via a Spac in December....
...Grab is also on the move, raising $200m, half from South Korean private equity firm Stic Investments, and launching consumer financial products including micro-investments, loans, health insurance and a...
...No — Uber Eats, its food delivery business, and Jump, its electric bike rentals service, will still be available even if Uber loses its private vehicle hire licence....
...the picture (although it might take some time before insurance companies and regulators are willing to allow the cars to be used in fully autonomous mode.)...
...Electric bikes Simon Usborne As a man in Lycra descending rapidly towards middle age, I’m inclined to be snooty about electric bikes....
...Key industries face massive disruption: carmakers like VW, from the rise of electric vehicles; banking and insurance, from the emergence of financial technology; and machine engineering, from digitisation...
...What a certain electric car company would give for such freedom right now, eh? However, has Bezos proven he is an astute steward of this bounty of shareholder funds? Let's go back to 2003....
...He also oversees the corporate secretary and compliance teams at the health insurance company, and works to keep pace with changing regulations and to find new ways to use data while protecting privacy....
...Early buyers of electric cars in the 1990s coined a term to describe the gnawing dread that their battery might run out before they got home: “range anxiety”....
...At the time, the two together supplied more than half of America’s washing machines and dishwashers....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...————————- The company, less than a year old, wants to use a combination of sensors, cameras and machine learning to make life easier for rush-hour commuters....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Companies — which saw General Electric make more than $1bn in 2014 from selling data generated by machines — want to join the wider information gold rush....
...Even the lack of electric starter can be solved — one French company makes the delightfully named “jambe électrique”....
...Even if the theory holds, persuading drivers to switch to “driverless” mode and trust life and limb to a machine may take more than statistics, so the pilot will also study how safe they feel....
...chain in the country”, or “exceptional [US companies] like Lincoln Electric”....
...Berkshire’s collection of businesses runs from railways, through utilities to manufacturers of industrial lubricants and machine tools, and, at the heart of the company, insurance....
...Investment strategy: A value investor and a disciple of Ben Graham, Mr Watsa invests via his insurance company Fairfax Financial Holdings....
...Professor Erasmus Wilson declared in 1878: “When the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”...
...’, Harry Potter v Twilight, Romney v Obama....
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