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...Cruise has since brought in law firm Quinn Emanuel — one of the law firms that sued Volkswagen over the 2015 diesel scandal — to investigate its response to the accident....
...VinFast, the newly listed Vietnamese carmaker that was briefly worth more than Volkswagen and General Motors, has lost more than $1.4bn this year, despite increasing shipments of electric vehicles....
...The firm has already struck a £193mn settlement with Volkswagen over claims it misled consumers about nitrogen oxide emissions from its diesel cars....
...Despite selling just 24,000 cars last year, its $200bn valuation at one point in September propelled it into the ranks of the world’s most valuable automakers — far surpassing rivals such as Volkswagen,...
...Last week the electric vehicle maker was briefly valued at more than the combined worth of Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen....
...Despite selling just 24,000 cars last year, Vietnam’s VinFast this month soared into the ranks of the world’s most valuable automakers — far surpassing rivals such as Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors,...
...Separately Teddy Desloge has been named chief financial officer of Blackstone’s secured lending fund among other new appointments....
...These included buyouts of food blog The Infatuation and luxury travel agent Frosch, and the purchases of a controlling stake in Volkswagen’s payments arm as well as a minority stake in the Brazilian digital...
...Ford invested $1bn in the group in 2017 and Volkswagen joined two years later with a $2.6bn investment aimed at making Argo a leader of driverless tech on two continents....
...Volkswagen’s automotive software subsidiary Cariad is investing $2bn in a partnership with Chinese chipmaker Horizon Robotics....
...Volkswagen has said it is planning to list shares in Porsche, the German group’s moneymaking brand that has pledged to make 80 per cent of its cars electric by the end of the decade....
...Lohscheller, who was previously chief executive of Germany’s Opel and worked in the US for Volkswagen, said VinFast would open 60 stores in California and bypass third-party dealers — a sales channel also...
...This year has brought a measure of vindication, as companies ranging from Ford to Volkswagen to Mercedes-Benz have unequivocally committed their futures to electric vehicles....
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...Premier League boss attacks breakaway ‘Super League’ plan (FT) Barclays restarts dividend despite drop in profits (FT + Lex) Litigation and writedowns push Credit Suisse to fourth-quarter loss (FT) Volkswagen's...
...Herbert Diess, Volkswagen’s chief executive, said his company “is ready” for the transition to electric vehicles....
...Demand for such metals is set to rise rapidly over the next decade as carmakers from Tesla to Volkswagen expand production of electric vehicles....
...Volkswagen AG has named company insider Arno Antlitz as its chief financial officer, who is the current CFO of its luxury Audi brand. He will succeed Frank Witter, who will step down in June 2021....
...(Vanity Fair) Powering up Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess isn’t giving up on the German carmaker’s aspirations to enter the electric car ring, competing with the likes of Tesla and the Renault-Nissan alliance...
...It has grown to offer a suite of tools to survey customer and employee feedback, and its 12,000 customers include Microsoft, Volkswagen, Shell and the UK’s NHS....
...The Waymo fleet of vehicles is still assumed to be in the hundreds, and certainly not in the tens of thousands, though a spokesperson declined to clarify....
...Rana, it seems that your view, and their hope, is that the US will enter another progressive era with the kind of trust-busting that Teddy Roosevelt undertook. I would love to see that....
...Meanwhile, the ride-hailing company Uber and AV group Argo — now jointly controlled by Ford and Volkswagen — have also brought in multibillion-dollar investments....
...Electric cars are easier than autonomous ones, yet Volkswagen's plan to produce 26m emission-free vehicles in the next nine years — while making them as profitable as petrol ones and leapfrogging Tesla to...
...Volkswagen is to establish a flagship self-driving technology company in an attempt to take on the dominance of Silicon Valley rivals such as Google’s Waymo....
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