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...A really intriguing story as the US UAW labour union files charges against Mercedes-Benz for opposing a unionisation drive at its plant in Alabama....
...“It is not a trophy investment any more,” Mercedes chiefToto Wolff tells Scoreboard....
...The move was going to be the first international expansion for Rivian, which has faced several setbacks starting its own production in the US....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...The project “can move quicker if we do it together” said Mercedes-Benz Van chief executive Mathias Geisen....
...The head of Chinese electric carmaker Nio has warned that Europe’s energy crisis is slowing its expansion in a region where it is aiming to take on dominant players such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW....
...His mother was a Time Inc executive, and his father a Washington diplomat who worked for the US Agency for International Development....
...“The royal treatment was provided to us. The pick up at Amritsar airport was in a BMW. The pick up from our houses in Mumbai to the airport was in Mercedes-Benz,” he says....
...As well as Tesla, the Chinese groups will also have to deal with competition from the big German carmakers — Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW — that have long dominated its luxury auto market....
...Since then, it has become a fully established international series contested by carmakers such as Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and BMW....
...Last year, German carmaker Mercedes-Benz apologised to Chinese consumers twice after using a quote from the Dalai Lama in a post on its Instagram account....
...UPSCALE: Buyers reach out to us....
...(FT) Gloom around Daimler deepens Daimler, which makes Mercedes-Benz cars, has warned on profits for the fourth time this year after being forced to make further provisions to deal with a regulatory crackdown...
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...hoping to win the 2020 US election....
...Mercedes-Benz unveiled its first fully electric SUV this week. This month, Audi will debut its own electric SUV, the e-Tron. BMW has begun taking orders for its upcoming iX3 electric SUV....
...When the event was over, I used an app to order a shared taxi from ViaVan, jointly owned by Mercedes-Benz Vans....
...From 2001 to 2013, the gap in CO2 emissions in the lab versus on the road nearly quadrupled from 8 per cent to 31 per cent, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation....
...Even among the vehicles sold to China from US plants, many are from German brands, with both BMW and Mercedes-Benz exporting large numbers of luxury SUVs from US facilities....
...Details started to emerge about Apple’s secret project to create an electric vehicle in early 2015, as it poached staff from carmakers including Tesla and Mercedes-Benz....
...The Mercedes-Benz carmaker will join three Japanese banks — MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and the sovereign wealth fund of Bahrain to fill the last $7bn...
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...Mercedes-Benz and BMW have expanded their Thai plug-in hybrid line-ups over the past two years....
...More than 30m vehicles worldwide are equipped with Harman systems and the company has established key relationships with premium carmakers such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz....
...BMW offers DriveNow, its car-sharing scheme which is available in London and Europe as well as the US, while Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler has its car2go service....
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