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...Rivian was initially seen as such a threat by America’s truckmakers that it was courted by both General Motors and Ford, with the latter eventually succeeding in partnering with the group....
...The coronavirus pandemic has turned the US government into a financing source of last resort for swaths of corporate America, but the socialisation of risk and the picking of winners and losers has concerned...
...“In a perfect world we’d have been in this position three or four years ago,” said Mr Jenkins, a former head of design for Mazda in North America....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...The boards of Toyota and Mazda are expected to decide later today on a possible collaboration between the two Japanese carmakers....
...Mazda Motor will roll out its locally produced hybrid vehicle as early as 2019....
...Ford later announced it was cutting 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia and said it would move production of the Ford Focus, from Mexico to China — not the US....
...Olswang, part of Cameron McKenna, will attempt to determine whether Mr Cats and his wife Ruth V....
...SAIC, ranked 13th, was the largest among Chinese producers, rolling out 2.26m vehicles and surpassing Daimler of Germany and Mazda of Japan....
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...But Brian Soublet, deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, had another worry. Yes, there are potential safety benefits....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...Todd Blecher, a spokesman for Boeing, said it had “never seriously entertained” the offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne, a supplier of rocket motors....
...“We’re here to disrupt and shatter the status quo and dispel preconceived notions,” Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac’s chief executive, said at the unveiling of the new Cadillac CTS-V, a performance version of...
...This suggests that consumers’ morale remains feeble in spite of the recent signs of economic recovery and still weak indications of consumption stabilisation....
...“We can bring a lot of value [to Fisker] which is important to all of its stakeholders.” Wanxiang America, based in Elgin, Illinois, employs more than 6,000 people in the US....
...The Wall Street analysts waiting eagerly for details of Tesla Motors’ planned “Gigafactory” will have been disappointed by the cursory treatment the project got on Wednesday, as the company announced plans...
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...Meanwhile, Russian threats to withhold a key rocket motor from the US in response to US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis prompted soul-searching about whether the US could produce an alternative motor....
...most advanced rocket motors....
...Farewell Panasonic, Mazda Motor and Tokyo Electric Power....
...(Financial Times) The US’s road safety regulator on Tuesday delivered its strongest public rebuke so far over General Motors’ handling of a botched ignition switch recall when it called the company’s failure...
...“The new transmission plant will be fully operational by late 2015,” Tetsuo Iwamura, executive vice-president of Honda Motors, told a press conference....
...It was said that there were probably 20 bank robbers for every doctor in America then, and I was certainly aware of the desperados....
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