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...“Even we couldn’t have predicted the last two years of Indian internet growth,” Reed Hastings, Netflix chief executive, told a conference in Delhi this year....
...“One of the advantages of autonomous vehicles . . . is increased situation awareness,” says Randy Visintainer, director of autonomous vehicles at Ford....
...GM’s latest drive to expand its global reach is focused on Chevrolet, its flagship brand....
...Most have the German carmaker at the top of their production and sales league tables, writes John Reed....
...Randy Warren, a fund manager at Warren Financial Service, who reduced equity holdings at the start of the month, said he was “starting to worry about missing out on the upside now” and was buying back in...
...GM last year launched in the US the Chevrolet Volt, an extended-range electric vehicle that it plans to sell in Europe from next year as the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera....
...LG already supplies battery cells for GM’s two existing extended-range hybrids, the Chevrolet Volt and its European cousin, the Opel Ampera....
...The car, a Europeanised version of GM’s Chevrolet Volt launched last year, will be available in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain from early 2012....
...This month, Gaz agreed to build about 30,000 Chevrolet Aveo cars for General Motors on contract. In December Germany’s Daimler chose Gaz to build about 25,000 of its Sprinter vans a year....
...While Honda’s recent models have garnered mostly good reviews, they have struggled to compete with more aggressively styled new cars made by rivals, including Hyundai’s Sonata and General Motors’ Chevrolet...
...The Chevrolet Cruze gives GM its best chance in decades of regaining a foothold in the small-car segment....
...GM has been producing some well-reviewed new models, including the Buick Regal sedan – based on its European Opel Insignia – and the Chevrolet Equinox crossover. However, it faces intense competition....
...Mr Evanick had been at GM less than a week when he moved Chevrolet’s huge advertising account from Publicis to San Francisco-based Goodby, Silverstein Partners, part of the Omnicom group....
...The job will also include regional responsibility for GM’s Chevrolet brand....
...The GM Daewoo joint venture in South Korea is developing a Chevrolet-brand SUV that might be built on the US carmaker’s small car platform....
...Its new Chevrolet Camaro muscle car far outsold Ford’s more established Mustang in June....
...GM said its June sales were their highest since 1999, with sales up 52 per cent, and GM’s Chevrolet brand reported a 61 per cent rise in sales to record levels for the month....
...Among them are GM’s joint venture in Uzbekistan, its St Petersburg manufacturing plant and distribution of the Chevrolet brand in Russia, which are controlled by its South Korean GMDAT joint venture....
...GM is resisting Magna’s push for full access to its global intellectual property outside Opel, and rights to the Chevrolet brand in Russia....
...Matters in dispute include Russian rights to the Chevrolet brand in Russia, where most of its cars are made from knocked-down kits from South Korea....
...General Motors has chosen South Korea’s LG Chem over a consortium led by Germany’s Continental to supply lithium-ion battery cells for its Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric car....
...It hopes the Chevrolet Equinox, a small sport utility vehicle, and the Buick LaCrosse sedan will reverse the inroads made by foreign carmakers. The show will not entirely lack glitz....
...Ten years later, five of the former carmaker’s plants in Korea have been busy turning out Chevrolets and other cars for none other than GM under its GM DAT joint venture with Daewoo’s creditors and others...
...Carmakers have had plants working overtime in Asia – like GM’s busy Chevrolet factories formerly owned by Daewoo in South Korea – and are investing in new ones around Russia....
...GM bought its 50 per cent stake in VM Motori, which supplies its Chevrolet brand and several other carmakers, in 2007....
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