My book comes out Sept. 20. Charging Ahead, the inside story of Mary Barra's quest to reinvent GM, dismantling Alfred Sloan's global empire in a race to catch Tesla and prepare GM for the biggest change to transportation since engines replaced horses.
@theJeremyVine
@RangersFC
Oldco still owes £15m for non-payment of VAT and PAYE under Whyte and £6.2m for the 'wee tax case' that relates to payments to Craig Moore, Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer." Even if the EBT case is only £20M, they owed a minimum of £41.2M. Still think the club survives?
ON THE ROAD AGAIN: GM's Cruise looks to start testing its cars on public roads. Baby steps to start, as there will be safety drivers in the vehicles.
#Cruise
#selfdrivingcars
#AutonomousVehicles
Autonomous driving has gone from huge expectations to no expectations. The remaining companies are toiling away to develop the technology.
#AutonomousVehicles
#stockstowatch
In what could be the defining moment in Joe Biden’s presidency, he has suspended Trump tariffs on single malt Scotch and Irish whisk(e)y. 🥃 Slainte everyone!
#JoeBiden
#trump
#whisky
#whiskey
GM’s deal with Nikola is all about messaging. And the message: GM has better technology even if investors slapped a $18 billion valuation on profitless Nikola. .
#car
#NikolaBadger
#stockstowatch
#teslastock
GM put out another photo of the Chevy Blazer EV. It's got some pretty bold styling and will be a true test for electric drive in the mainstream market when it goes on sale next year.
#electricvehicles
#Plugins
My daughter takes a test for her driving permit tomorrow. Yes, she will be driving. The car won't be driving her around anytime soon. Remember those predictions on autonomous driving? And how the kids don't want to get driver's licenses?
#SelfDrivingCars
#autonomy
If Roe is overturned, some 170 year-old abortion bans could go into effect. With the leaked draft of the ruling, it could become reality.
#RoeVWade
#RoeVsWade
“He was immensely quotable. I think everybody liked interviewing Lee bc he was one of the true characters of the industry… you don’t see that so much anymore,” says
@DavidWelchBN
Runaway car prices are putting the dream of a new car in the driveway out of reach for typical American families.
@DavidWelch47
& I talk sticker shock with
@weskosova
Back in Black! GM says that, assuming the pandemic doesn't hit the economy with a fresh round of shutdowns, it should make money in nthe second half.
#stockstowatch
#profit
#CoronaVirusUpdates
@Meldisny
@PeterSchiff
"Trickle down theory was a Reagan invention that was disowned by one of its strongest proponents, David Stockman, in this essay with the great William Greider.
NEW COVER: The electric version of the F-150 pickup truck hitting the market isn’t just a big event for Ford—it could be a watershed moment for electric vehicles in America
This failure to drive adoption across the entire market is a major theme in my recent
@nytimes
piece. I'm not saying we should copy China's policies, but we need to learn from them if we want to leverage our consumer power into a healthy EV market
@GroggyTBear
@BarkMSmeagol
@SAirfarce
@Autoline
In all seriousness, I'm not out to "show" anybody. I just thought that the argument that the Model Y wouldn't sell when it was weeks into production was a weak one. And I really hate specious arguments.
@DavidWelch47
Lordstown got some early cred when GM took a stake *and* struck a parts agreement w/ the startup
GM sold its stake last year, and on Monday $RIDE disclosed a $14.8 million impairment charge on the parts agreement.
We are grateful to
@GM
and the plant in Kokomo who have produced more than 17,000 ventilators. Because of the public-private partnerships President
@realDonaldTrump
initiated, we have nearly 70,000 ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile.
$NKLA says it will deliver 'at least' 25 BEV trucks this year (by year-end 2021). That's the lower end of the range of 25-50 trucks outlined by the company in August when it cited supply chain bottle necks in cutting its original forecast of 50-100 units.
The UAW wants a return of COLA, the Cost of Living Allowance that protects workers to inflation. Here's the story on that key piece of labor negotiations:
#UAW
#labor
#inflation