Sentences with phrase «us auto industry»

When Chrysler and GM filed for bankruptcy, people were saying «This is the end of the auto industry.»

Cobb has carved out a specific market in the auto industry: His customers are tech - savvy enthusiasts with strong brand allegiances.

Fortunately for the auto industry, Solve Media found that the rate of bot fraud was lower on car sites than it was generally elsewhere on the web.

Part of why Musk has so many supporters, for example, is that his goals of colonizing Mars and moving the auto industry to renewable energy strike a deep idealistic chord for many people.

As entrenched as the auto industry is, footholds do exist for new entrepreneurs who are niche - oriented, innovative and passionate about cars.

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.

Nothing speaks to this more than the fact that Tesla has the highest customer satisfaction levels and the highest percentage of customers who say that their next car will be a Tesla in the entire global auto industry.

At Friday's close, they had fallen 37 percent since Fields took over three years ago, at the peak of the U.S. auto industry's recovery.

Others questioned whether the company was really in the dark: «Most «fleet» sales were just a flimsy cover for sales to resellers,» concluded Bertel Schmitt of Dailykanban.com, an auto industry site.

The auto industry is about assembling mechanical things that become a car.

McCarthy could not immediately be reached Tuesday but said in her determination in January the rules are «feasible, practical and appropriate» and in «the best interests of the auto industry.»

What's more, the new business could also help offset the loss of revenue during downturns in the auto industry, Hackett said.

Think of Edsel Ford, who rather than being remembered for his decades spent steering the hugely successful corporation, is instead known for the auto industry's biggest flop.

CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports on an auto industry research group releasing a report on implications from a re-negotiated NAFTA deal.

Sometimes it's an obvious misstep — bankrupt airbag supplier Takata ranked last in the Harris poll this year after the largest recall in the history of the auto industry (and 22 deaths due to the company's products).

But Merkel reportedly pressed the EU to relax the new standards, apparently after she was lobbied by the German Auto Industry Association.

Auto industry veteran and former GM executive Bob Lutz recently argued that the die is already cast.

It now has 70 partners across several fields in the auto industry, up from 50 in July, it says.

At the Deutsche Bank Global Auto Industry Conference in Detroit on Tuesday, Ford said that it was dialing back on cars, but not abandoning them.

In a recent research note, he pointed to the possibility, based on Apple's reported hiring of a large number of auto industry veterans, of Apple changing gears entirely and building a car.

But there were hints that the German auto industry, if not VW in particular, was uncomfortable with the U.S. emissions rules.

Experts in the auto industry expect the trend to continue as millennials increasingly elect to live in cities where it's expensive to own a car.

«The biggest sectors of steel consumption are in the construction industry, the auto industry, oil and gas industry, all of which need these products to produce competitive products,» warns Yerxa.

Among those hardest hit would be the U.S. auto industry, which has fully integrated Mexico into its production network.

One of the biggest names in the auto industry is concerned with potential changes to free trade amid the new protectionist rhetoric that is coming from countries including the U.S.

Long way to go, but we've convinced most of the auto industry to start EV programs & gave them all our patents to help, so that's something

These companies subsequently persuaded the DMV to loosen the requirements, and a trade group representing the auto industry said the companies «appreciated the streamlined guidance.»

And although the issue is well known to the auto industry and government safety regulators, drivers generally assume that their sunroofs are safe.

But the majority of the products we make in the auto industry are actually large vehicle components, so you have to be within a certain distance of the assembly plants.

As the battle for dominance in the auto industry heated up, the Motor Show became a pivotal event.

GM Korea's future is important for South Korea as it accounts for some 13 percent of the nation's auto industry jobs and 16 percent of auto exports in Asia's fourth - biggest economy.

Organized by the newly formed Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the weeklong exhibition was a bid to unite England's burgeoning auto industry, which had begun holding several competing London shows.

«It is pretty common with new technology and the new entrants to the business, such as Tesla and Fisker, that they are often overly optimistic — and they overestimate how difficult the auto industry is,» says Mike Omotoso, an industry analyst with LMC Automotive in Troy, Michigan.

The small companies behind these bewitching motorcycles and sports cars are a bright spot in the American auto industry.

Jeep has emerged as a the focal point of the automaker's mass - market car plans, without which the company could scarcely attract a partner necessary to weather the disruption looming over the auto industry.

Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, a harsh critic of NHTSA and the auto industry, believes the new legislation is much needed.

He is expected to discuss the auto industry's improvement after the government bailed out General Motors and Chrysler shortly after he took office.

A summary of the proposal, seen by Reuters and circulating among auto industry officials based on descriptions from Canadian and Mexican trade negotiators, would require the $ 16 wage on work comprising 40 percent of the value of light - duty passenger vehicles and 45 percent for pickup trucks.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

Rinspeed essentially jammed the car with every tech feature the auto industry has been talking about this year, from self - driving tech to gesture - controlled displays that can tell you when the traffic light will turn green.

Keen also cites more recent example, including the auto industry's «chrome coffins» that created carnage on U.S. highways in the mid-20th century.

Auto industry lobbyists and government officials said they did not expect the USTR negotiators to reveal specific targets on Lighthizer's demand that a minimum percentage of North American vehicles be produced in the United States.

No one was sure if the auto industry — America's pride and joy — would ever be the same.

«A really great production system is primarily a software problem, and there's no one in the auto industry that is remotely as good as Tesla at software,» he said.

Though it was a bad quarter overall, the one surprise was a return to relative health for the auto industry.

Even if the feds boosted existing supports, Canada would lag far behind the well - endowed auto industry R&D programs that have been established in other countries, including the U.S, Sweden and South Korea.

Meanwhile, Tesla Motors has gone from a half - baked idea about a battery - powered sports car to a rare bright spot in the otherwise troubled American auto industry.

The company's staff includes longtime cybersecurity experts as well as auto industry veterans who have helped to make Argus a go - to shop for cybersecurity on wheels.

The Rinspeed car is only a concept, but it's packed with almost every tech feature imaginable as the auto industry works to makes cars more high - tech and connected than ever before.

Four years ago, the financial crisis and ensuing collapse of the auto industry meant the only consideration for most companies was self - preservation.