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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-24/volvo-is-better-than-ever-thanks-to-this-chinese-billionaire
1. The car wouldn’t exist, and Samuelsson wouldn’t be jawing with journalists in a stranger’s house, if it weren’t for a formerly obscure Chinese billionaire named Li Shufu.
知识点: If X happened, then Y would happen.
If X didn’t happen, they Y wouldn’t happen.
2. And Li has pulled it off by both defying the stereotype of the meddlesome new owner and leaving his fingerprints all over Volvo’s transformation
知识点: parallelism 结构相同
by 1) defying the stereotype of the meddlesome new owner
2) Leaving his fingerprints all over Volvo’s transformation
Both X and Y
3. Li’s adventures appear to have the tacit approval of the Chinese government, despite his being a private operator vying against China’s many state-owned companies.
知识点:vying against China’s many state-owned companies修饰 private operator
4. She supervised construction of the Volvo assembly and engine plants in China before moving to South Carolina in 2015
知识点: parallelism 1) Volvo assembly 2) engine plants
5. Now Rafiq has the job of pushing Volvo ahead of larger, wealthier rivals with such innovations as digital keys that facilitate ride-sharing as Volvo races to develop electric and self-driving cars.
句子结构: Rafiq has the job of X as Volvo races to develop electric and self-driving cars.
The job is to push Volvo ahead of rivals
6. Despite its innovation bona fides, Volvo has never had the heft to go head-to-head with European rivals BMW AG and Daimler, let alone the likes of Toyota and Volkswagen AG, which each sell almost 20 vehicles for every one sold by Vovlo.
知识点:let alone =not to mention + 名词/动名词
7. Li wanted a harder push into China, where Volvo sold only 30,522 vehicles in 2010. Assembling cars there would be less expensive not only because of lower labor costs, but also because of Geely’s relationships with local suppliers, no import tariffs, and shorter shipping distances.
知识点:not only because of lower labor costs, but also because of Geely’s relationships…. 结构相同
8. “The big difference was on the price side,” Samuelsson says. “The cars were not good enough, not attractive enough. Maybe you save 100 on lower costs and lose 10,000 on the price side –not very smart.” Since his first full year as CEO, the company’s revenue has grown 73 percent while profits are up more than six fold. The new vehicles “are not lower on the cost side—probably the contrary,” Samuelsson says. “There’s a lot of new technology that is not free of charge.
知识点:‘Maybe you save 100 on lower costs and lose 10,000 on the price side’ can be used as an argument in AWA.
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