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General Motors Uses Super Bowl Air Time to Feature New Electric Vehicles in Two Ads
General Motors said the Super Bowl ads will be for its luxury Cadillac brand and the company as a whole.
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Flight Attendants Play ‘Babysitter for Adults' as Bad Behavior Onboard Spikes
Airlines are carrying fewer people but bad behavior is on the rise.
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Nasdaq-Listed Chinese Electric Scooter Firm Niu Technologies Jumps 16% After Sales Bump
In the fourth quarter of 2020, Niu Technologies sold 149,705 e-scooters, growing 40.9% year-over-year.
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Fiat Chrysler Unveils New Three-Row Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV
Jeep is expanding its popular Grand Cherokee lineup with a new three-row model, which the company believes will widen the vehicle’s appeal.
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AFL-CIO Leader Calls Trump Protest ‘One of the Greatest Assaults on Our Democracy Since the Civil War'
Richard Trumka, who has worked with the Trump administration over the last four years, largely blamed the president for the actions of his supporters.
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Luxury Carmaker Bentley Had a Record Year in 2020 as Other Automakers Struggled in Pandemic
Bentley said it sold 11,206 vehicles in 2020 despite the global health crisis causing the company’s factory in England to be shut down for seven weeks.
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GM's U.S. Sales Rose 4.8% in the Fourth Quarter in an Otherwise Dismal Year
GM reports its domestic sales during the last three months of last year increased 4.8% compared to 2019.
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GasBuddy Expects Recovery in Fuel Spending in U.S. After Covid Caused $100 Billion Decline
GasBuddy expects a modest recovery in U.S. spending on gasoline this year following a nearly $100 billion decline in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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More Than 20 Years of Airline Passenger Traffic Growth Got Erased in 2020, Report Finds
The Covid pandemic reduced airline passenger traffic to levels last seen in 1999, according to a new report by travel data and analytics company Cirium.
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Pandemic's Revolution in Transportation and Commerce Rivals 19th-Century Railroad Construction
Nearly 200 years after the first freight cars carried goods over railroads, the country is in the middle of a new revolution in transportation and commerce fueled by the pandemic — online shopping delivery, NBC News reports. Millions of people have relied on e-commerce to get everything from toilet paper to groceries to puzzles to sweatpants during the pandemic. Online retail sales were up by...
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Surge in Online Shopping Is Straining America's Busiest Port, Official Says
Shipments processed at the Port of Los Angeles were up 22% in November as American consumers bought more goods online, Executive Director Gene Seroka said.
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Apple's Long Flirtation With the Car Business Divides Analysts, Who See Pros and Cons
Some analysts pointed to the huge market and time spent in cars as reasons why Apple would want to get into a low-margin, capital-heavy business
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White House Task Force Kept Airport Covid Screeners in Place Despite Known Risk of Infection, Sources Say
In interviews with dozens of officials, CNBC has learned that the program proved not only ineffective but dangerous from its earliest days.
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Winnebago CEO Expects Pent-Up Demand to Propel Covid Boom in RV Sales in 2021
Winnebago beat Wall Street expectations in its most recent quarter, and CEO Michael Happe is optimistic that RV demand will last into 2021.
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Why Cheap Cars Are Disappearing From Dealer Showrooms
Cars costing less that $20,000 make up a smaller share of the new car market than they have in the past, partly because automakers are not making them.
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GM Leads $23 Million Investment in On-Demand Vehicle Maintenance Service Yoshi
The Series B funding round will assist the company’s hiring and expansion plans as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic for the coming years.
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Joe Biden Selects Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary
Biden has chosen former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be his Transportation secretary.
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China Brings Moon Rocks Back to Earth in a First for the Country as Space Race With U.S. Heats Up
China is only the third country in the world to retrieve lunar samples after the efforts by the U.S. in the 1960s and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
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European Uber Rival Bolt Raises More Than $180 Million for A.I. Drive
Bolt said it will use the money to develop driver face verification and use machine learning to prevent potential incidents.
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Tesla Tells Employees Model S and X Production Will Shut Down for 18 Days
Tesla sent an e-mail to Fremont factory workers saying it will shut down Model S and X production lines for the holidays.