The departure of Schwab, who had been with the ultraluxury brand for five years, occurs in what has been a tumultuous year for Aston, which has struggled financially since going public in 2018.
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Jim Farley said building battery cells in-house could be a way to offset potential job losses as the automaker fields more EVs, which have fewer parts and are less complicated to manufacture.
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The CEO said he took a series of rapid antigen tests, which produce results within 15 minutes and are cheaper but less reliable than polymerase chain reaction tests. He's now waiting for results from the latter type of test, which take longer to process. Musk tweeted that he was experiencing symptoms of a typical cold.
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Nikolai Setzer, 49, will replace Elmar Degenhart, 61, who is stepping down on Nov. 30 for health reasons, the company said.
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The 2022 E-Transit will be offered in three configurations, with three roof heights and three body lengths, in an effort to give business owners a variety of options to match specific needs.
https://www.autonews.com/future-product/ford-e-transit-start-around-46000-offer-126-mile-range
Arun Majumdar, a Stanford University engineering professor who was named Tuesday to lead the Biden transition team for the agency, is on the short list to be its top official, sources told Bloomberg.
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The German union said there would be a protest in front of the Mercedes engine factory on Berlin after the plant's manager was said to have joined Tesla, which is building a car factory just outside the German capital.
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