Hints and tips:
...As one engineer familiar with the company put it, it is “doing nothing meaningful in the world of batteries, other than maybe buying some pretty decent ones”....
...Car rental companies like Hertz and Avis have come under pressure as the US auto market has cooled....
...Corfo seems to be doing just that....
...Yet this investment was as much down to chance as anything else....
...But Tesla has moved beyond simply demonstrating an alternative way of doing business. It is keen to bring the incumbents round to its way of thinking....
...For this generation, computers were as familiar a childhood plaything as toy trucks and Lego sets, there to be dissected and inspected and bent to their will....
...Carlos Ghosn, Renault’s and Nissan’s chief executive, recently said he had difficulty forecasting business for the coming month, much less the coming year....
...But luckily UPS needed seasonal workers in San Francisco, launching a project that then took Mr Frankel into jobs at Starbucks, Gap and Apple, as well as a stint at Enterprise, the car rental company....
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