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Tesla Model 3 joins Dubai Taxi fleet on a trial basis

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that Tesla Model 3 had been added to Dubai Taxi Corporation’s taxi fleet on a trial basis, following the huge success of operating 172 Tesla vehicles in the limousine service since 2017. The trial operation aims to verify the efficiency of the vehicle when deployed on the taxi fleet ...

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Tesla Model 3 to join Dubai Taxi fleet on trial basis

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that Tesla Model 3 had been added to Dubai Taxi Corporation’s taxi fleet on a trial basis, following the huge success of operating 172 Tesla vehicles in the limousine service since 2017. The trial operation aims to verify the efficiency of the vehicle when deployed on the taxi fleet ...

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SIB to launch wealth management, remittance services for NRIs

Dubai / Gulf Time South Indian Bank Limited (SIB), a major private sector bank headquartered in Kerala, India, will be launching special wealth management service, deposit scheme, life insurance scheme, trade-related payments and remittance service and mutual fund products for the non-resident Indians (NRIs). Announcing this, Murali Ramakrishnan, CEO, South Indian Bank Ltd, who is in Dubai on an official ...

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Surging fuel costs causing demand destruction: Vitol

Bloomberg The global surge in the cost of fuel is starting to weigh on demand, according to the world’s biggest independent oil trader. Consumers are being hit by the run-up in gasoline, diesel and other oil products, Mike Muller, head of Asia at Vitol Group, said on Sunday on a podcast. “There’s very clear evidence out there of economic stress ...

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How Hong Kong’s 1997 dreams sank sans trace

The Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a landmark attraction built in the style of an imperial palace that adorned the south side of Hong Kong island for more than four decades, capsized this month in the South China Sea, having been towed away after its business was rendered unprofitable by the pandemic. Social media users were quick to see a metaphor. As ...

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Brexit has UK traveling wrong way in time

The idea of time travel is an old British preoccupation, from H.G. Wells’s 1895 novel to the seemingly immortal television series “Doctor Who,” which first aired in 1963, the year before I was born. Although I didn’t travel by Tardis or encounter any murderous Daleks, returning to my native land last month felt more than usually like a “Doctor Who” ...

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To save Ukraine, slow down on the autobahn

  Rather as the US is an outlier among developed countries in equating freedom with gun ownership, Germany is almost unique in defining liberty as the absence of speed limits on the autobahn. That mentality, however, is now slamming into the imperative to save energy, which is in turn part of the West’s common effort to resist the warmongering of ...

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Companies need to get real about climate risk

  For decades, US companies have been making a significant omission in their financial statements: They’ve failed to recognize and disclose the full cost of climate change. This matters not only for the planet’s future, but also for investors today. It makes some businesses look more profitable than they really are, and it prevents others from realizing the value of ...

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Airbus wins $37bn China jet deals in blow to Boeing

Bloomberg Airbus SE won one of its biggest-ever orders for 292 airliners worth more than $37 billion from four Chinese airlines, a coup for the European manufacturer as it tussles with Boeing Co. for dominance in Asia’s largest economy. China Eastern Airlines Corp. will buy 100 A320neo narrow-body jets, while Air China Ltd. will take 64 units, with its Shenzhen ...

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Air fares will rise for next five years, says Ryanair’s O’Leary

Bloomberg Air fares are “too cheap” and will need to rise for the next five years for airlines to remain competitive, Ryanair Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary told the Financial Times in an interview. Ryanair under O’Leary pioneered the era of budget travel, offering cheap tickets that made air travel accessible to millions, while putting pressure on the profit margins ...

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