Monthly Archives: September 2016

Reports: VW Cleanest Among Dirtiest Diesels As Collusion Between OEMs And Bureaucrats Emerges

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From America to Australia, justice for Volkswagen’s dieselgate fraud has been swift and costly. In Europe however, the region with by far the highest concentration of diesel cars in the world, no fines have been levied, possibly because equal justice in Europe could bring the region’s entire auto business to its knees. As a new report by NGO Transport & Environment shows, dieselgate-type cheating is common throughout the industry, and Volkswagen diesel cars actually are the least polluting of Europe’s dirtiest diesels, at least when counting violations of the current Euro 6 norm. “National authorities have focused on protecting their own commercial interests, or those of domestic carmakers,” says Transport & Environment, and documents are emerging that hint that for many years, governments and automakers may have colluded in defrauding citizens and customers who don’t want to be among the 72,000 who each year die prematurely from cancer-causing NOx emissions all over Europe.

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T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter Talks Company Growth, What’s Next for Wireless

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The wireless industry is nothing if not competitive, but for T-Mobile CFO, Braxton Carter, it’s a challenge he welcomes. Coming in as the third most profitable of all carriers, Braxton says the company has had a transformative few years despite the highly-saturated market. I sat down with Carter this month to discuss his long career in wireless, T-Mobile’s journey and his role in it – according to him, it’s far from over.

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Tesla Takes New China Hit With Driver Death Lawsuit

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Electric car maker Tesla is in the negative headlines in China driving into the new week, following reports of a Beijing lawsuit against the company over the death of a driver of one of its cars. I’ll be quite direct and say that the lawsuit looks a bit dubious and perhaps unrelated to Tesla’s technology, though it’s also possible that Tesla’s carefully worded statement is designed to give that impression. But even if the lawsuit is baseless, this kind of negative headline is the last thing that Tesla needs in a problem-plagued market that it once hoped would fuel its difficult drive into profitability.

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