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Image copyright Protean Electric When it comes to making electric cars better, it’s the batteries that you’ll hear about the most. But what about the motor that actually drives the car? Car enthusiasts have long-obsessed about what is under the bonnet of a traditional car, but in the electric world the motor gets little attention. […]

A majority of United Auto Workers members signed off on the tentative agreement between the union and General Motors, ending a massive strike that lasted more than five weeks and shut down GM production across the country. GM workers spent the past week casting ballots to determine whether to ratify the new contract. By the

Image copyright Andrew Medhurst Image caption Andrew Medhurst, pictured with his daughter Lottie, says he’s done his “fair share” of damage to the environment Andrew Medhurst was a high-flyer. He earned a six-figure salary and had worked all over the world for the likes of Lloyds Bank and HSBC. But he gave it all up

Billionaire CEO Ken Fisher of Fisher Investments has lost roughly $2.7 billion in assets under management after a series of comments he made about women, genitalia, drugs and Jeffrey Epstein at an exclusive executive conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Three former and current employees and five industry colleagues tell HuffPost that Fisher’s demeanor exemplified

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption New Balance has been Liverpool’s official kit supplier since 2015 Liverpool FC have won a legal battle over a multimillion-pound sponsorship deal with the US company New Balance. The European champions were taken to court over their alleged refusal to honour a reported £40m-a-year deal, which expires in May

Image copyright PA Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has reported a quarterly profit after seeing a big boost to sales in China. The firm made a pre-tax profit of £156m in the three months to 30 September, with revenues up 8% to £6.1bn. Sales in China – a key market for car manufacturers – were up

Image copyright Getty Images The UK budget deficit is £1-£1.5bn less than what had been previously reported after a statistical error, the Office for National Statistics has said (ONS). Britain’s official statistics agency reported earlier this week a year-to-date budget deficit of £40.3bn, excluding public-sector banks. The ONS now says there was “an error in

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian investigation found a Lion Air flight that crashed and killed 189 people a year ago was doomed by a combination of aircraft design flaws, inadequate training and maintenance problems. A final accident report released Friday said Lion Air flight 610, from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta to the island of Sumatra,

Image copyright Getty Images A series of failures led to the crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max in October last year, which killed 189 people, an official report says. Indonesian investigators found faults by Boeing, Lion Air and the pilots led to the plane crashing. It also said the jet should have been

Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s four main mobile phone companies and the government have set out a £1bn plan to banish so-called “not-spots”, areas of poor network coverage in rural areas. The deal – which includes EE, O2, Three and Vodafone – aims to get 4G coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025.