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...Zeekr, the premium electric vehicle brand of Chinese automaker Geely, is launching in four Middle East countries next year as it intensifies its global push ahead of a planned US listing....
...Silicon Valley investors are touring the Middle East, seeking to build long-term ties with sovereign wealth funds during the worst funding crunch for venture capital firms in almost a decade....
...Nadal also has a link to Saudi Arabia as one of the team owners in E1 Series, a new Saudi-backed electric powerboat circuit that gets under way next month in Jeddah....
...Weeks after its 2021 initial public offering, Rivian, the lossmaking California-based electric truckmaker, was briefly worth more than Volkswagen....
...Vietnamese electric vehicle start-up VinFast’s valuation has overtaken those of Detroit’s “big three” carmakers after shares of the lossmaking company soared on their first trading day....
...It expects to sell 50,000 cars this year and says it has production capacity of 300,000 electric vehicles a year....
...The small amount of shares publicly traded subject the stock to wild swings in its share price and at one point the south-east Asian company had a valuation north of $200bn, more than most established automotive...
...Smart reads Caught in the blaze The catastrophic wildfires in Maui have thrust Hawaiian Electric into chaos....
...Chanos is best-known for his bet against energy trader Enron, as well as for his more recent, but unsuccessful, campaign against electric-car maker Tesla....
...The ambitions of this inexperienced carmaker, from a country with a limited manufacturing history and relatively small consumer market, underlines how the rapid global shift to electric vehicles is spurring...
...William Mansfield, Credit Suisse’s head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is departing for a new role at Deutsche Bank....
...VinFast electric vehicles have arrived in the US for the first time after the company, a unit of Vietnam’s Vingroup, said it made a delayed delivery to California drivers....
...“The balance of power is shifting to the Middle East in private markets.”...
...Carmaker VinFast is to float its shares in the US as Vietnam’s largest auto group seeks to fund its shift to become fully electric....
...Additionally, Aviva’s former chief strategy and M&A officer Chetan Singh is rejoining the firm in June to take over from him as co-head of FIG for Europe, the Middle East and Asia....
...The company built a factory in Haiphong, east of Hanoi, that began producing cars and electric scooters in 2019. Its five EVs were designed by Italian houses Pininfarina and Torino Design....
...How Rivian’s CEO became the anti-Elon The electric truckmaker’s RJ Scaringe isn’t using Musk’s playbook in his battle with Ford and Tesla....
...I aspired to go to Harvard or Yale,” he wrote in another volume of his memoirs, Ignoble Inferno....
...Owners of electric cars will be used to “range anxiety”; in the air, it takes on a rather greater significance.” Read more...
...But as corruption subsists in south-east Asia’s largest nation, he’s treating neighbouring Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal as a cautionary tale....
...The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board appointed Deutsche Bank veteran Nick Jansa as senior managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and promoted the current head of its Singapore office...
...Here’s a good look at one of them, Matt Levine, who is great, even if he does frequently remind you that he went to Harvard for undergrad, Yale for law school and worked at Wachtell and Goldman Sachs before...
...One thing to start: in an interview with DD’s Ortenca Aliaj, Nikola board member and ValueAct founder Jeff Ubben defended the electric truck start-up and its founder Trevor Milton against allegations of...
...“In Pakistan, the use of dirty fuels in vehicles exacerbates air pollution,” Ahmad Rafay Alam, an environmental lawyer in Lahore and Yale World Fellow, said....
...Facial recognition fearsMore than 2,000 leading academics and researchers from institutions including Google, MIT, Microsoft and Yale have called on academic journals to halt the publication of studies claiming...
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