Sentences with phrase «big automakers»

These tests might be peanuts for big automakers, but they are too costly for these small startups.

Not a single model from the world's biggest automaker by sales is represented among this year's winners.

But the world's biggest automaker said the car never had appeal beyond a core group of technology enthusiasts and environmentalists.

Toyota, the second biggest automaker in the world, announced an ambitious plan today to tackle mobility and delivery services in the age of autonomous cars.

Mr. Brauer said the partnership between Volvo and Uber, which plan to invest $ 300 million in their self - driving car effort, was part of a growing trend of big automakers joining forces with technology firms.

While Uber has invested heavily in autonomous - car technology, and CEO Travis Kalanick has said that's where the company's future lies, the battlefield is arrayed for a clash with big automakers like Ford, Tesla, and Mercedes, which are developing both self - driving technology and car - sharing software of their own.

So Ford, the nation's second biggest automaker, has added a third van to its lineup in an effort to become America's «van master.»

By focusing on quality, performance, safety and value, new leadership at GM guided the world's biggest automaker back from the brink.

The man with the final word on design at one of the world's biggest automakers sees a future dominated by self - driving boxes - on - wheels and souped - up sports cars.

General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Ford and other big automakers, as well as startups like Southern California's Fisker Automotive, are rushing to put models on the market in the next few years.

Question is, are the Big Easy and the nation's biggest automaker really back in the swing of things?

The world's biggest automaker at the time, GM began the New Millennium by sacking Ron Zarrella and promoting its newly rehired car guy, Bob Lutz, to be Rick Wagoner's right - hand man on product.

Even though General Motors is slowly recovering from several years of billion dollar losses, the world's biggest automaker still has more problems than a calculus book.

The Volvo XC90 is the first all - new Volvo — body, drivetrain, infotainment, cabin — since China's Geely Holdings took control of Sweden's lone big automaker in 2009 and then pumped in US $ 11 billion.

Also, most big automakers probably couldn't afford Tesla; they are very large companies, but many recently went bankrupt or came close.

Indeed, while big automakers tout plans to build plug - in hybrid cars a few years from now, Navistar International Corp.'s school bus division, IC Corp., is already rolling out plug - in hybrid buses.

Pioneers that have been converting hybrids for years have helped encourage big automakers to make plug - in hybrids, they've shown that it was possible, and they've given lots of media attention to the very concept of a range - extended electric car.

It's their chance to get ahead of bigger automakers that are dragging their feet, and the faster they start investing in the manufacturing capacity for EVs, the faster they'll benefit from economies of scale.

Aware that in order to become the world's biggest automaker by 2018 they have to be more than just a niche player in the U.S., the Germans are struggling to up the ante with new or refreshed products such as the 2015 Jetta.

BEIJING, April 30 - Volkswagen AG, the world's biggest automaker, is in talks to form a joint venture with China's Didi Chuxing to manage part of the ride - hailing company's fleet of cars and help develop «purpose - built» vehicles for Didi's services.

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

The world's biggest automaker has said it is considering the sale of some of its non-core businesses.

The big automakers have reported their March sales numbers, and it looks like America's appetite for cars may be waning.

Big automakers are, and what they learn will permit them to make a critical judgment: Will people play for this tech?

Ghosn, who born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, and educated in France, heads up the alliance of these three big automakers that are based in Japan and France, and conduct business in 200 countries.

For the big automakers to prevail in the future, they'd have to radically reinvent themselves as service companies, something they're entirely unequipped to do (as Stratechery's Ben Thompson notes).

VW is not only Germany's biggest automaker — it is its biggest private employer, with 600,000 workers worldwide.

Last but not least, we come to Fiat Chrysler (NYSE: FCAU), the redheaded stepchild of Detroit's three biggest automakers.

Volkswagen AG, the world's biggest automaker, is in talks to form a joint venture with China's Didi Chuxing...

Volkswagen AG, the world's biggest automaker, is in talks to form a joint venture with China's Didi Chuxing to manage part of the ride - hailing company's fleet of cars and help develop «purpose - built» vehicles for Didi's services.

The earnings crunch continues this week, with quarterly reports due from tech and drug giants, the big automakers, airlines and many more.

VW The world's biggest automaker is taking a fresh look at a big piece of its marketing.

Ford, the US's third - biggest automaker, is already struggling with high commodity costs.

The big automakers have been trying to build a winsome electric car for decades without success.

Toyota, Japan's biggest automaker, has launched a counteroffensive with an all - new... Read more

The Volkswagen Group has beaten Toyota to become the world's biggest automaker for the first half of 2015.

No one, not even VW chairman Ferdinand Piech, can simply mark a date on a calendar when the company might end up as the biggest automaker on earth, certainly not when so many competitors are fiercely fighting over every percentage point of market share.

With their reputations at stake, the world's biggest automakers are rolling out their best efforts in electrified vehicles over the next several years and are more interested in earning carbon credits than profits.

Since Toyota likely has already worked with Google and it has chops as the world's biggest automaker, it's the leader in the clubhouse.

Amid a sea of slow - selling Tundras and Sequoias, the third - generation Prius is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy 2009 for the company that now holds the title of the world's biggest automaker.

The world's biggest automakers, some of whom have been slow to react to the changing landscape, have been breaking their axles lately jumping on the all - electric bandwagon, with a flurry of recent announcements outlining grandiose plans to charge up their lineups.

Seven of the world's biggest automakers are showing off some of their 1993 models at the North American International Auto Show, one of the world's top three annual car shows.

Alfa, which is a division of Fiat, Italy's biggest automaker, has an excellent track record for providing parts for its discontinued cars.

Among the biggest automakers, Nissan Motor Co. and Chrysler Group posted solid gains while volume fell at General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co..

Others noted that it was a positive step by one of the biggest automakers in the world.

The $ 370 million plant in Babol in northern Iran will be developed with Iran's biggest automaker, Khodro Co., and Canadian investment firm Solitac.

CEO Sergio Marchionne, who delivered the day - long presentation at Chrysler's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., said the new direction for the big automaker is one of positive change.

Europe's biggest automaker has, particularly since its 2015 emissions scandal, been looking to become more focused and efficient.

Our conclusion: Ford might have learned a thing or two about building a fun, engaging mid-sizer from the world's fifteenth - biggest automaker.