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David Welch covers all things auto for Bloomberg. Green-hooped, sword-fighting piper. Whisk(e)y enthusiast. Opinions are my own.

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@DavidWelch47
David Welch
2 years
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.
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David Welch
4 years
@MalloryMcMorrow @business Don't we get to take deductions for WFH expenses?
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5 years
@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?
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@ProperWhiskey @TheNotoriousMMA It’s really bad whiskey.
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David Welch
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Thanks for digging this up, Dan!
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Dan Beucke
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… and that reminded me of this @DavidWelch47 gem. GM’s Aztek: Born to be a little too wild
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David Welch
2 years
Autonomous driving has gone from huge expectations to no expectations. The remaining companies are toiling away to develop the technology. #AutonomousVehicles #stockstowatch
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David Welch
3 years
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
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David Welch
4 years
@mcgowan_stephen @MailSport I hear he wants a one-year loan deal. He wants to win the tenth!
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David Welch
4 years
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
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David Welch
4 years
As we wrote yesterday, GM and Ventec were well on their way with ventilator production before yesterday rather curious chain of events. #TrumpPressConference #TrumpPlague #trum #CoronavirusUSA #VentilatorShortage #VentilatorGate
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David Welch
2 years
@SAirfarce @GailAlfarATX @Tesla @elonmusk Robots realizing those tires don't fit on the Model Y at Giga Texas.
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David Welch
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@john__rosevear @davidfrum @JimSwiftDC @TheAtlantic A vaccine passport is really just a digital version of the immunization records people already have.
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David Welch
4 years
@MichStatePolice How soon does the mocking refrain "a man from Florida" become "a man from Michigan?" #manfromflorida #TrumpMeltdown #MichiganProtest #Michigan #MichiganTerrorists
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David Welch
4 years
I went to the BLM protest at Somerset Mall outside Detroit. All was peaceful when I left around 8:30.
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David Welch
2 years
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
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David Welch
4 years
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
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David Welch
5 years
I got quoted about Iaccoca being quotable!
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AirTalk with Larry Mantle
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“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
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David Welch
1 year
The middle class is having a tougher time buying a new car. Prices will have to collapse for that to change. #economics #inflation #cars
@KeithNaughton
Keith Naughton
1 year
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
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David Welch
4 years
Self-driving cars in five years? So says GM's Mary Barra. This time, with a link! #cars #AutonomousVehicles #SelfDrivingCars @samabuelsamid
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David Welch
5 years
Moving beyond ordinary cars: GM’s Cruise gets ready to show a purpose-built self driver. . #selfDrivingCar #AutonomousVehicles #waymo #TeslaModel3 #autopilot #TechNews
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David Welch
1 year
@stevenewing On the plus side, it’s a great paint color.
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David Welch
7 years
The new Chevy Silverado slims down. . #Silverado #ChevySilverado #Trucks
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David Welch
3 years
I have a badge and a dream. All I need is an electric car and a SPAC deal. #SPAC #ElectricVehicles #startups
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@DavidWelch47
David Welch
6 years
“Celtic are miles ahead of Rangers”
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Phil Mac Giolla Bháin
6 years
This honest analysis of the real reasons for the Gerrard signing would never be allowed in Scotland.
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@DavidWelch47
David Welch
5 years
Only Tesla had good vehicles sales today. The rest is gloomy stuff. #tesla #elonmusk #chevy #toyota #cars #economics
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David Welch
3 years
SCOOP: More consolidation afoot among autonomous car companies as Cruise talks deal with Voyage. #deals #autonomousdriving #SelfDrivingCars
@EdLudlow
Ed Ludlow
3 years
$GM-Backed Cruise Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Startup Voyage With @mhbergen @DavidWelchBN
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David Welch
4 years
Oof! Tesla takes a body blow in the latest JD Power study.
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Gabrielle Coppola
4 years
Dodge is #1 Tesla is #32
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David Welch
2 years
@EdLudlow @TheTerminal @elonmusk Talk about dropping news on a distracting night.
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David Welch
2 years
Regardless of party affiliation, the irony is pretty rich with this.
@HistoryLivesDet
Ken Coleman
2 years
Massive signature fraud scandal upends Michigan GOP gubernatorial race via @michiganadvance
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David Welch
3 years
As autos go electric, carmakers big and small will joust it out in the ignoble commercial van market. #amazon #lastmiledelivery #ElectricVehicles
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David Welch
4 years
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
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David Welch
7 years
In the minute it took me to get this tweet out, Tesla burned $8,000. #tesla #elon #cash #shortselling
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David Welch
6 years
@GerberKawasaki Smoke 'em if you got 'em, eh Ross?
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David Welch
4 years
It's a big day for revenue-free car tech. Cruise gets a $30B valuation and Rivian $27.6 billion. #rivian #cruise #startups
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Chester Dawson
4 years
Electric-truck startup Rivian has raised $2.65 billion in new funding, boosting its valuation to around $27.6 billion by @EdLudlow via @technology
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David Welch
4 years
Seventy six years ago, my Uncle Joe Rimualdo lands on the shore at Utah Beach. #DDay76 #WWII #Veterans #heroes
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David Welch
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@ScottBrown8 You look better here.
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David Welch
4 years
@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.
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David Welch
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@GerberKawasaki Not exactly sagacious, Ross.
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David Welch
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David Welch
6 years
Your car has been spying on you for a long time. Now it's schilling to you, too. #cars #privacy #MarketingAutomation #DataScience #dataprotection #BigData #Advertising
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David Welch
4 years
Driverless cars in five years? So says GM's Mary Barra in this interview on Bloomberg TV. #SelfDrivingCars #GM #cars #AutonomousVehicles
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David Welch
4 years
Trump did say that. Must be they like Janet Yellen.
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SleuthyKyle
4 years
But Trump told me the stock market would crash if Biden was elected....
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David Welch
4 years
Plug in and load up. The electric pickups are coming. A parade of them, in fact. #trucks #pickup #chevy #ford #hummerEV @KeithNaughton @KyleStock
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David Welch
3 years
Grudge match brewing. #tesla #VWID4
@Herbert_Diess
Herbert Diess
3 years
Volkswagen overtakes Tesla, @elonmusk
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David Welch
5 years
@UAW @GM Alongside?
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David Welch
1 year
@climate I’ve heard of this beer. Pretty good segment from Ira, too
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David Welch
4 years
Isn't it ironic: A conference "Doing Business Under Coronavirus" was canceled due to the coronavirus. #irony #CoronavirusOutbreak #CoronaVirusUpdate #councilonforeignrelations
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David Welch
4 years
And the short sellers said Tesla can't keep raising money. #tesla #teslaq #ElonMusk
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David Welch
5 years
It's baaaaack! Fleet sales and lots of 'em. #cars #economics #hertz #avis
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David Welch
4 years
EV Easter Egg! In the back to the right is an electric Chevy pickup that GM teased at CES today. #chevy #pickup #ElectricVehicles
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David Welch
4 years
@ragedd_ @realDonaldTrump @EveningEdit The account was created in Aug 19 and the post has Russian syntax. Yes, it’s a bot.
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5 years
Ford announced s a big investment in the US ... right before a Trump rally. Chin scratcher, eh? #ElectricVehicles #jobs #economics #trump #cars #Ford
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David Welch
4 years
You mean, wearing masks could be seen as everyone's duty to save the economy? #MasksSaveLives #economics #savetheeconomy
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Jeffrey C. McCracken
4 years
Goldman Sachs says a national mask mandate could slash infections and save economy from a 5% hit
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David Welch
2 years
@RalphNader @nytimes Ralph, Ralph, Ralph. No one reads the Times' sports pages.
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David Welch
2 years
Ford kicks of them electric pickup truck race. @KeithNaughton tells us how it came together in this great yarn. #Ford #trucks #ElectricVehicles
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Businessweek
2 years
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
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David Welch
2 years
This is a really interesting take and it gets into something few talk about in the push for EV adoption: changing car culture.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
2 years
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
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David Welch
4 years
As Ford gains share in the truck market, the cost of that GM strike last fall seems to get steeper all the time.
@KeithNaughton
Keith Naughton
4 years
HAULING ASSETS: @Ford ’s F-Series Truck Gain Softens The Blow of Virus-Driven Decline. 'We’re in a much better position than @GM and certainly better than @FiatChrysler_NA , I mean dramatically better' $F @crtrud @DavidWelchBN via @business
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David Welch
4 years
With Michigan's stay home order lifting next week, it's almost time to Play Ball!
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David Welch
3 years
BIG SCOOP by @KeithNaughton and @EdLudlow : Ford will spend $10-$20 billion to convert the company to electric vehicle production on top of the $30 billion budgeted. Everyone is rushing EVs to market. #ford #ElectricVehicles #stockstowatch
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Bloomberg TV
3 years
BREAKING: Ford is spending up to $20 billion for a major reorganization in its shift to an electric future. @EdLudlow has the details ➡️
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David Welch
3 years
Got about $4 million for a new car? Bugatti's new ride. #bugatti #toys @HannahElliott
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David Welch
1 year
Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy after would-be partner Foxconn backed away from collaboration.
@business
Bloomberg
1 year
Lordstown chief Ed Hightower flew to Taiwan last year for meetings with Foxtron. The CEO ghosted him — an early sign of the trouble that lay ahead
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David Welch
4 years
Now that’s a stunning car! A welcome break from virus news, @PeterMDeLorenzo @GMdudeinNA
@PeterMDeLorenzo
Peter DeLorenzo
4 years
The 1956 Buick Centurion was another concept from GM Styling for the GM Motorama.
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David Welch
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@DaneCook Peter Dinklage as Superman!
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David Welch
4 years
@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.
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David Welch
4 years
It looks like Covid didn't disappear after election day. Now state governors raise restrictions to contain the virus. #COVID19 #Trump
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David Welch
5 years
No big in Japan, but a hit in China. Cadillac and Lincoln are pops on the Mainland. #cadillac #lincoln #cars #luxury #posh #China #TradeWars
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David Welch
4 years
GM triples down its electric-vehicle bet with a third plant. #electricvehicles #plugin #HummerEV
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David Welch
4 years
Just a thought here. Since everyone knows not to shake hands, do we even need the elbow bump? How about a smile and a greeting at a safe distance. #CoronaVirusUpdates #coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak #etiquette #emilypost
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David Welch
1 year
Another EV startup hits the skids.
@sokane1
Sean O'Kane
1 year
@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.
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David Welch
4 years
@GroggyTBear @SAirfarce @Autoline Wait, is he hitting me with that pitch?
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David Welch
4 years
Elon threatens to leave California. Would his top talent want to flee Silicon Valley for Texas or Nevada? I’m dubious.
@danahull
Dana Hull 👩🏻‍💻
4 years
First take:
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David Welch
2 years
You don’t say. Ford gave the spin-off idea a spin.
@EdLudlow
Ed Ludlow
2 years
BREAKING: Ford CEO @jimfarley98 on call: "We certainly looked at a spinoff." $F
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David Welch
4 years
Ken Chenault actually initiated this effort with a call to GM's Mary Barra. #GM #ventilators #motorcity
@Mike_Pence
Mike Pence
4 years
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.
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David Welch
3 years
Bottom end? They barely made the range!
@EdLudlow
Ed Ludlow
3 years
$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.
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David Welch
4 years
SPAC is the new black. Everyone is into it. This time Lordstown Motors does a reverse merger to go public. #lordstown #ElectricVehicles #SPac
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David Welch
4 years
What would Batman drive? Maybe a 1000-hp electric truck than can drive sideways.
@decodethefirm
Chester Dawson
4 years
GM debuts a new electric Hummer pickup as fast as a sports car with a driving range comparable to Tesla's Model 3 By @DavidWelchBN via @luxury $GM
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David Welch
2 years
@talkSPORT England fans can delight in schadenfreude only as they never win anything.
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