Sentences with phrase «build a car from»

I accepted his «challenge» and we built a car from scratch in roughly a month to drive from downtown S.F. to Treasure Island to deliver a pizza.

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A student is learning to code in Python to make formulas for his math homework while his friend, a Maker Mentor, builds a car from Lego Robotics.

Then, in 1913, Henry Ford built the first moving assembly line, reducing the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.

The Batmobile body was designed by legendary car customizer George Barris who figured it made more sense to buy the Futura than to build a car from scratch.

The company did apply for and receive a permit for testing autonomous cars on public roads in California, but reports say that efforts to build a car from scratch have been scrapped in favor of focusing on autonomous software existing automakers can use.

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And although no solid estimates of recharge time are available, Porsche claimed in 2016 that if fast recharging stations were built, its 2019 Mission E car battery could charge to 80 percent from flat in around 15 minutes.

The North is sitting on US$ 6 trillion worth of minerals, according to a South Korean state - owned mining company, including rare earth metals, which are used to build everything from smart cars to iPhones.

The S7, which was introduced in 2002, is the first car his company, based in Irvine, California, has built from scratch.

The blueprint at that time entailed building a sports car, then continually reinvesting the cash from those models to build more affordable versions.

The goal is for the factory to become self - sufficient, giving workers the ability to build both the car and home batteries from start to finish.

But experts have noted that, at least as far as the test is concerned, Apple's autonomous car seems to be built from off - the - shelf parts, including a lidar (light detection and ranging) unit from Velodyne Lidar, at least two radar units and several cameras.

This group knows better than anyone else how hard it is to build an electric car company, a solar company, and a rocket company from scratch.

Tesla builds millions of all - electric cars that finally start the process of displacing the internal - combustion engine from its century of dominance (a big part of this is the validation of a mass electric - car market, to induce major automakers to commit to the change).

The former RAF base's current inhabitant, Dyson, is embarking on its own adventure fraught with peril: a # 2bn project to develop and build electric cars from scratch.

The company needs time to build up its fleet from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the vehicles smog tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.

Engineers have banded together to create a supersonic car that's built to travel faster than a bullet from a handgun.

Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in damages, accounting for property damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.

Additionally, Tesla's ride - hailing fleet would consist of cars that have already been bought and paid for, while Uber has to build up its self - driving fleet entirely from scratch.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

Cars are then built and sold from the micro-factories on a just - in - time basis.

Apple is reportedly prioritizing working on the software for a driverless car, rather than building one from scratch, as is indicated by its hiring of Dan Dodge, the founder of QNX and one of the premiere experts in car software.

From «talking» cars to self - driving cars, what it means to build, own or simply drive a car will fundamentally change in the next 25 years, says Ford Chairman Bill Ford.

Short of building entire cars, there is money to be made from the software to run a self - driving vehicle, as well as the services associated with autonomous driving, such as mapping, car - sharing and car recharging services, the auto source said.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

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3D and 2D models include product visualizations and 3D models and can be made for anything from cars to buildings.

When looking in from the outside, any business can look super successful — but from my experience, the more expensive the cars, the bigger the building, the more staff, all add up to mean a lot of debt.

«Detroit went from being one of the worst places on the planet to build a car to one of the very best,» says Pabrai.

Green Charge is even experimenting with a new business that reuses batteries from Nissan's LEAF electric car to store energy for commercial and industrial buildings.

The remarkable story of how a technophilic car salesman from Salmon Arm, B.C., created a website, changed the way Canadians buy vehicles and built the No. 1 company on the 2016 PROFIT 500 — Canada Drives

Experiences will range from building activities for the younger kids, for example the 6 - year - olds will be programming robot cars and creatures to live on an imaginary planet, to computer programming for the older kids.

And its corporate campuses are mostly models of how not to build cities, with mega office parks (and spaceship designs) dependent on cars and detached from their neighboring communities.

«And each one has maybe 5,000 parts that come from different suppliers and have to arrive just in time, and each car is available in a couple of thousand build combinations with different colors and features.

Today, the company has now reportedly moved towards manufacturing EVs with the vision of «redefining what a car can be by building an iconic new vehicle from the ground up».

«There is a straightforward, proven formula for cutting carbon pollution: clean up your electricity system and shift from fossil fuels to clean power for heating buildings, fueling cars, and powering industry.

From one single used car lot he built one of the largest auto dealership groups in the nation.

Toyota Motor Corp., which plans to build a new $ 1.6 billion factory in Alabama with Mazda Motor Corp., said the administration's decision will «adversely impact» auto companies by raising costs and prices of cars and trucks sold in the U.S.. That's even as more than 90 percent of the steel Asia's biggest carmaker needs in the U.S. is from the country.

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

There are some devices on the market — built into cars as well as child seats — that can help prevent kids from being left behind.

It's hard for a company in any of the three countries to know how to calculate the payoffs of sourcing car parts from the US or building a factory in Mexico if, in a just few years, access to those parts or that labor might become a lot more costly if NAFTA collapses and border taxes start soaring.

While these incumbents have steady cash - flow streams coming in from their existing business, Tesla loses money as it tries to build up production and sell its cars below cost to attract a customer base.

It was time to focus on the next phase of Tesla's strategy: to build the company's first real car from scratch — and to help the company achieve the economies of scale, impact, and reputation it desired.

It's no secret that building a car company from the ground up requires significant capital.

April 6, 2017 www.theglobeandmail.com Lego lovers know the colourful little toy bricks have a myriad of uses, from building simple houses to full - scale cars and functioning prosthetic legs.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

There's a church in Ohio called Crossroads, but across the street from the church they've bought this used car lot, and they turned the building into an entrepreneurial help center.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

isn't that Evoulation in reverse?all other creatures on land have a thick skin (hair or wool) except humans!if God creates us he made us this way but provide us with the brain to complete our creation so we becomae as independent at other species using our heads; from riding a horse to a car to aplane to maybe self propelled engines?but why did we start covering ourselves: Are we really made with a built in shame or is it just the enviroment?

Moving states without jobs (twice), moving to a place I had never visited, enduring through building a business when all I wanted to do was quit, battling chronic illness, my car breaking down, having to create multiple meals from only a few dollars, finding a squirrel in my house, etc..