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...Another heavily-traded company that until recently was a penny stock is Mullen Automotive....
...“It is very hard to measure, but if you look at the readiness of deployment and availability of technology, [China] is probably no more than one or two years behind,” said Raymond Tsang, an automotive technology...
...Tamil Nadu is India’s biggest exporter of electronics and a hub for its automotive industry....
...VinFast became an instant sensation when it listed in the US in August through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company....
...Industry specialist Tu Le, founder of automotive advisory and market research firm Sino Auto Insights, said the quality of the vehicles was “persistently panned” in reviews....
...Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest maker of automotive batteries, has announced plans to mass-produce and supply sodium-ion batteries for EVs this year....
...Volkswagen’s automotive software subsidiary Cariad is investing $2bn in a partnership with Chinese chipmaker Horizon Robotics....
...automotive designers....
...Titikorn Lertsirirungsun, Asean manager for LMC Automotive, the consultancy, described VinFast’s gambit as “high risk, high return”....
...Otherwise, we’re all going to build this and they’re going to steal it from it us....
...None more so than US-based Thoma Bravo....
...Waymo, which started as a Google project in 2009, is generally considered the industry leader and its unpiloted “robotaxi” service in Phoenix has no rival in the US....
...“VinFast — like any EV start-up — will encounter daunting challenges when entering the US market,” said Michael Dunne, chief executive of ZoZo Go, an automotive consultancy....
...In recent months, Apollo has announced a $3bn financing package for AB InBev’s US canning plants, acquired a major supplier of automotive parts, and bought a portfolio of online media assets that have been...
...While his name precedes him in the US as the founder of the Las Vegas Sands, prolific Republican party donor and close confidant of Donald Trump (who in 2017 relocated the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv...
...Spacs as the route to a public listing through a blank-cheque shell company really gained altitude in the second half of last year, and while automotive tech companies have been much in vogue, aviation has...
...Meanwhile, Renault’s chief has told us its electric vehicle platform “has nothing to envy “ in VW’s, where he used to work. 3....
...A focus on the chassis is meant to send a signal to automotive suppliers to begin building capacity for all the necessary parts required at scale — a development that should speed up production....
...US falling behind China on electric carsThe US must urgently build up an electric vehicles industry or risk becoming dependent on China for its automotive future, a group of senior military and business...
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@FT.com So much for M&A being dead Megadeals are acting a bit like London buses....
...US car retailer AutoNation and parts makers Magna contribute knowledge of the automotive supply chain....
...However, Facebook and Google reported this week that a surge of spending from advertisers in the video-gaming and ecommerce industries helped to offset rapid pullbacks in March from the automotive and travel...
...Other new investors in Waymo include automotive supplier Magna International and US car retailer AutoNation, as well as venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz....
...He joined in 2016 as head of the bank’s automotive investment banking team and is departing to launch his own venture....
...had only been in post at Nissan’s premium nameplate for four months, after replacing Roland Krueger, who quit Infiniti in January to work for Dyson, the vacuum maker that is planning to break into the automotive...
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