Sentences with phrase «u.s. car industry»

Meanwhile, the U.S. car industry was already a very successful aspect of the U.S. economy, with lots of lobbying power to spare.

States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

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An employee welds the shell frame of a train car at the Siemens Industry Inc. manufacturing facility in Sacramento, California, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015.

Assuming that other sites car brands advertise on are plagued by a similar rate of fraudulent web traffic, Solve Media calculated car companies would waste $ 541 million out of the $ 2.5 billion eMarketer estimates the auto industry will spend this year on digital branding in the U.S.

These regional supply chains that power America's car sector, aerospace industry, and numerous other advanced manufacturing facilities support 14 million U.S. jobs, many of them the higher - paying ones Trump repeatedly promises to bring back.

As a trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, tariffs imposed by the two nations have business owners in industries ranging from cars to wine feeling nervous.

The U.S. pioneer in luxury electric cars charged by batteries was one of the first companies to offer steering that could be operated hands - free, one of the first steps to full self - driving that industry experts say may be available by 2020.

Right now, for instance, there are more opportunities in the commercial sector for self - driving cars — but that doesn't mean advances in autonomous technology aren't things the U.S. defense industry also wants a piece of.

Durant was a great promoter and visionary, and by 1909 he had turned Buick into the best - selling car in the U.S. Searching for a business model in a new industry, and with the prescient vision that a car company should offer multiple brands, that year he bought three other small car companies — Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac — and merged them with Buick, renaming the combined company General Motors.

While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»

DETROIT (AP)-- U.S. sales of new cars and trucks fell in August, ending summer on a low note for the auto industry and making it less likely that this year's auto sales will match the record set in 2015.

FRANKFURT (Reuters)- German photonics group Jenoptik has bought U.S. process automation firm Five Lakes, a car industry specialist, for an undisclosed sum, it said on Tuesday.

The U.S. auto industry once again turns to a sports car for salvation.

Close to a year before Urmson left the project, where he had become the de facto face of it, Google hired John Krafcik, a 25 - year car industry veteran who previously led Hyundai's business in the U.S., as its first ever CEO.

By the late 1970s, Japan's use of assembly - line robots in automobile manufacturing, which made human error nonexistent and boosted overall quality, sent shivers throughout the U.S. automobile industry, which was still assembling cars by hand.

The move comes at a time when U.S. new car and truck sales are at an all - time high and investors are watching closely for signs of a possible downturn in the highly - cyclical industry.

An aging population and a shift away from car ownership will make it difficult for the U.S. auto industry to sell as many cars as it once did.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

Last week's Louis Vuitton Classic car show — celebrating 100 years of the U.S. auto industry — parked 50 of the world's rarest vintage cars in Manhattan.

The auto industry expects similar demand for other new electric and plug - in hybrid cars hitting U.S. roads this year and next from General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi and others.

Subaru has scored 59 consecutive months of sales increases in the U.S. and will sell more than 600,000 cars and SUVs this year, making it the envy (along with Jeep) of the industry.

The culture of cars can be felt from its roots in Detroit industry to the historic development of the U.S. interstate.

That's from a 2015 study by CAR that analyzed the industry's total impact on the U.S. economy.

In sum, CAR noted the auto industry supported some 3.8 percent of all private - sector jobs and has historically accounted for 3 percent to 3.5 percent of U.S. GDP.

Jim Lentz, newly appointed chief executive of North America, said the Japanese automaker sees U.S. industry new - car sales hitting 15.3 million this year, up from 14.5 million in 2012.

For at least 25 years, the unequivocal answer has been «yes,» even though there were some initial objections from enthusiasts (and, if memory serves, in some car magazines) as the U.S. auto industry made its transition from three - point belts, to those universally unloved automated belts, to ignitions that wouldn't engage without the driver's belt buckled, to single driver's airbags, and finally to driver / front passenger airbags.

Before that revelation, Horn almost certainly was under pressure from VW management in Wolfsburg to improve the brand's flagging sales in the U.S. Volkswagen sales started to rise, briefly, when the North American - specific 2012 Passat went on sale under Englishman Browning's leadership, but sales slid in calendar year 2014 and» 15, despite strong sales increases for the industry, as the car began to age.

The Jeep Wrangler is such an icon (and cash cow, as one of Fiat Chrysler's top - selling U.S. products) that it will never go away, but it needs to be overhauled significantly for today's car industry.

Which will be near an all - time record and quite a swanky neighborhood when you remember that as recently as 2009 the industry considered itself lucky to shift 10.4 million cars in the U.S. for the whole year.

Ferrari may have missed out on taking advantage of a booming luxury car market, especially in the U.S., where industry sales reached record levels in 2015, with premium brands leading the way.

NEW YORK — Ikuo Mori, president and CEO of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. wants to tell those in warm - weather U.S. states that Subaru cars aren't just made for the snow.

The 1994 Accord — the first U.S. - bound car developed with Honda's new approach — will hit showrooms on Sept. 9, and already the industry is abuzz.

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In 1999, many industry experts and observers wondered how much longer Nissan would be selling cars in the U.S. Sales were in free fall and the product lineup displayed less charisma than Shrek.

Last year, about 40 percent of U.S. - built cars were equipped with the electronic devices - up from 13 percent in 1991 and less than 1 percent five years ago, according to industry experts.

The U.S. News & World Report rankings compare cars on the basis of safety, reliability and a consensus of industry experts» opinions, along with value — which is measured by a combination of a vehicle's five - year total cost of ownership and the average price paid for the vehicle at the time the awards are published.

«GM's retail growth over the last 12 months has outpaced the industry by a wide margin because our redesigned large pickups and SUVs are hits, we made smart investments in new segments like small crossovers and mid-size pickups, and our momentum in the car business is accelerating with each new model introduction,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of Sales Operations.

Honda's efforts in the areas of enhanced driver visibility have been recognized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as part of its 5 - Star Safety Ratings program (also known as the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP)-RRB-, with nearly all Honda and Acura models with rearview camera systems becoming the first vehicles in the industry to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Transportation for having met its Advanced Technology Feature performance criteria (http://1.usa.gov/Pv0lKq).

It is the biggest award yearly in the U.S. auto industry, the North American International Auto Show car, truck, and utility of the year, awarded at the big auto show in Detroit each January.

It is the biggest award yearly in the U.S. auto industry, the North American International Auto Show car, truck,...

The record level of new car sales registered in the U.S. in 2015 certainly has many in the automotive industry celebrating.

To help you find the best deal, we'll look at the average rate for a used car loan in the U.S. and six of the top lenders in the industry.

ENERGYSTOCKS.COM three - part interview by Bill Paul, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of «Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios» with what he grandly calls «Foremost Plug - in Car Expert Felix Kramer» Explosion of Hybrid & Electric Cars Coming in 2010 - 2012 http://energytechstocks.com/­wp/­?p=898 New Technology May Cut Gas Use Up to 50 % in EXISTING Cars http://energytechstocks.com/­wp/­?p=907 How Next U.S. President Will End America's Oil Addiction http://energytechstocks.com/­wp/­?p=909

Oil prices were higher, consumers were favoring smaller cars, and the Obama administration had only recently overseen the $ 80 billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry.

The emissions from the 721 million tons of coal in the South Porcupine is equivalent to the annual emissions of over 234 million passenger cars — that's nearly all the cars in the U.S.. Another way of measuring this coal — especially important for those in the Pacific Northwest resisting the industry's efforts to ship it through their communities for export to Asia — is that 721 million tons of coal is enough to fill 6.5 million train cars.

Last year alone, the auto insurance industry collected approximately $ 195 billion in premiums from U.S. drivers, but with the dawn of safer cars that are expected to drastically reduce traffic accidents, these kinds of profits may soon be a thing of the past.

In the U.S., insurance coverage for a drone striking your car depends on whether the owner of the drone is known, according to Loretta Worters, vice president of media relations at the industry - supported Insurance Information Institute.

Industry stakeholders believe this technology is so effective that the U.S. Department of Transportation, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and 20 automakers recently announced a new commitment that would make it standard on «virtually all new cars» by Sept. 1, 2022.