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...“I think it won’t be rubber stamping [Elon’s wishes] any more,” said Philippe Houchois, auto analyst at Jefferies....
...Electric vehicles comprised about 3.2 per cent of the US auto market in April, according to research firm JD Power*....
...For her part, Fraser seems to have racked up a good scorecard....
...Jud Linville, head of the global cards business at Citigroup, is leaving the company as part of a restructuring designed to unify the business with other parts of the retail banking operation....
...BYD plans to build more plants in Xining as part of its capacity expansion drive....
...Brian joins us now from a writing retreat near Lake Tahoe. Welcome, Brian. Thanks so much for having me....
...The cars can distinguish lorries from school buses and recognise that a “stop” sign held up by a workman is different to a sign advertising all-you-can-eat food....
...To win the opportunity to produce the Sonic at Lake Orion, the United Auto Workers union agreed that all new employees at the plant could be on lower, entry-level wage scales....
...Jason’s only a speech therapist in the Lake District. It’s Julia’s eurowads that are paying for Dad’s private room....
...Now based in Paris, Mr Besson joined BofA Merrill Lynch in London in November 2004 after working five years for Citi, where he was part of the European autos research team....
...The auto insurance business is part of AIG’s US personal lines unit, which includes selling products to high net-worth individuals through its AIG Private Client division....
...Particularly in areas such as the UK’s Lake District, where second homes are hard to find and expensive, a caravan holiday home is a good alternative....
...The Canadian parts maker would own 20 per cent and Sberbank Rossii 35 per cent, leaving GM with 35 per cent and Opel’s employees with the remaining 10 per cent stake....
...Trillium plans to build offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes and Mr Kourtoff says several car parts makers are set to join a consortium, TaiWind, that aims to build wind-power turbines and other equipment...
...For example, the flow of auto parts from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit’s plants slowed to a crawl at the river crossings that join the two cities—a factor in the decision by Ford Motor to shut down temporarily...
...Between the two is Gates’s own luxury mansion, overlooking Lake Washington....
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