Sentences with phrase «by building the vehicle»

In 2013, the company promised to bring 1,500 jobs to Caddo by building its vehicle in the former General Motors plant in west Shreveport.

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Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

It's already happening in some high - end cars, but what's more surprising is that there's a general feeling among involved parties that the majority of vehicles will have built - in modems by 2017, he said.

The move will also likely deal a blow to the Alexa Fund, the investment vehicle through which Amazon has been supporting startups building products and services to be controlled by voice.

And he is racing to make sure some of those vehicles will be built by his giant automotive group.

«The vehicles are less quirky than they once were, but Volvo is really building on its legendary safety reputation by embracing a particular attitude toward luxury and by advancing the high - tech cause.

Ford Motor's premium Lincoln brand plans to build as many as five new vehicles in China by 2022, according to two U.S. sources, in a move to expand sales that would also blunt the impact of the U.S - China trade spat.

The market is typically divided between $ 2 million to $ 5 million light vehicles — built by Rocket Lab, Vector and Virgin Orbit — and $ 62 million to $ 400 million heavy vehicles — built by SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin.

A faster ramp - up of the battery plant would be crucial as Tesla has said it would respond to brisk demand for the Model 3 by tooling up its factories to build 500,000 vehicles a year in 2018, two years earlier than planned.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

«By committing significant financial resources to these offsets, we're building into our business a strong incentive to pursue shared rides and the displacement of gasoline - powered vehicles,» Zimmer and Green wrote.

To achieve profitability, Musk will have to reverse what today amounts to a $ 22,584 pre-tax loss per vehicle built by the Silicon Valley company.

Airbus has previously claimed the so - called «Vahana» project will build and test an autonomous flying vehicle by the end of 2017.

Tesla now says that it will hit 2,500 Model 3 vehicles per week by the end of the first quarter and will build 5,000 per week by the end of the second quarter.

In 2012, Chinese sales of crossover utility vehicles — SUVs built on a car platform — increased by 18 % and could represent a quarter of all car sales in China by 2020.

Attract a wider array of capital to clean energy investments by developing innovative financing structures — from reducing investment risk though our Catalytic Finance Initiative to engaging individual investors through our Socially Responsible Investing platform to building new markets for green bonds, yield - cos and other vehicles.

The firm has built a track record in both long - only and absolute return vehicles by utilizing the investment strategies developed by DeLucca and her team of experienced investment professionals.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

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».

Top electric vehicle markets and associated local utilities are deploying public charging infrastructure, as well as indirectly promoting infrastructure by requiring that buildings and parking facilities be wired to support electric vehicles.

In addition to trying to bring electric vehicles to the mainstream, the chief executive officer had sought to build a competitive advantage over established automakers by installing more robots to quickly produce vehicles.

By Nick Carey DETROIT (Reuters)- Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it is building a closed - course test facility in Michigan for its self - driving vehicle technology that will...

With the acceleration of Tesla's vehicle build plan to 500k cars by 2018, the Gigafactory timeline is also accelerated to prepare cells and packs ahead of vehicle production.

«Google and Ford will create a joint venture to build self - driving vehicles with Google's technology, a huge step by both companies toward a new business of automated ride sharing,» reports Yahoo Autos.

Asian auto makers are expected to add the capability to build nearly one million more vehicles in North America over the next six years, and German auto makers could boost capacity by 700,000 in a challenge to the market stability that has helped boost profits for Detroit's three big auto makers.

During that time, Paine and his crew captured the ups and downs of electric vehicles» development amid the Great Recession — when GM went bankrupt and its executives made the blunder of flying to Washington, D.C., in private jets to seek federal bailout money; when Tesla Motors almost missed payroll, having built only 100 cars and spent $ 100 million; and when Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn was grilled by the press about the $ 6 billion gamble he was taking on the Leaf.

The stock rallied over 6.5 % the week following the announcement, with the proceeds earmarked for Model 3 production with deliveries by the end of 2017 and bringing forward Tesla's 500,000 vehicle unit build plan 2 years from 2020 to 2018 (as in next year, 2018).

If all three did get built, it's also possible that they may only be in peak usage for the next 10 - 15 years, as it's also possible that electric vehicles could be in widespread use by the late 2020s or early 2030s.

Uber has pushed onward its goal of having a fleet of autonomous vehicles by purchasing autonomous truck startup Otto and inking a deal with Volvo to start building self - driving cars.

Tesla is planning to build the biggest lithium - ion battery plant in the world in an effort to not only reduce cell costs for its electric vehicles but to ramp up production as well to keep up with projections that it will be churning out 100,000 vehicles annually by 2015.

Urbi, a Mexican construction company, has prospered by building housing for disadvantaged buyers using novel financing vehicles such as flexible mortgage payments made through payroll deductions.

GM and other automakers have been sharply criticized by Republican U.S. President - elect Donald Trump for building vehicles in Mexico that are imported into the United States.

The chapel isn't much to look at - an old gray building surrounded by a graveyard of dilapidated vehicles and rusted - out farm equipment.

We doubt that oblong - shaped vehicles get any more staggering or worthy of attention than this specially - built Iveco Domino transporter, a nod to an era dominated by Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, a place where he no doubt had countless meetings with engineers and also enjoyed moments of peace away from the flurry of the paddock after winning races.

This covers such representations made on product packaging, school controlled - traditional and digital media, and on any property or facility owned or leased by the school district or school (such as school buildings, athletic fields, transportation vehicles, parking lots, or other facilities).

Examples of other policies to be considered include Workers» Compensation if required by state law; Property insurance to cover buildings and contents against loss due to fire, wind, theft, vandalism, etc.; Equipment insurance to cover equipment that may move from location to location; and Auto insurance if vehicles are owned.

Accompanied by a 32 - page book that takes kids through a story, in which they can follow along and build 10 different vehicles, the Kit contains 70 chunky plastic pieces that are easy for small hands to assemble.

Encourage creative thinking by asking children to name their vehicle or build a vehicle to suit a specific «job.»

NASC was contracted by the U.S. Government to build a special version of an existing and proven unmanned aerial vehicle UAV, the... Read more

A story by Joy FM's investigative reporter, Manasseh Azure Awuni, indicates that in 2012 President Mahama received a vehicle from Djibril Kanazoe, the Burkinabe contractor, who secured a 650,000 dollar controversial deal to build a security wall at Ghana's Embassy in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou.

«In the mid -»50s, we had a better idea and it turned out not to be a better idea, which was to move vehicles in and out of Buffalo faster by building a highway.

If the main objective is to build cross-party consensus, then cross-party talks are the obvious vehicle (as in the cross party talks which preceded the Belfast agreement, or the current talks on further devolution to Scotland led by Lord Smith of Kelvin).

The planning system has come to be a primary vehicle for this approach, but Professor Gallent's research draws attention to major shortcomings in the way that communities interface with local policy makers, with protocols and procedures written into planning frameworks seldom backed up by the necessary investment of time in building local relationships.

To address local concerns, the LIRR will build the third track with noise - reducing technology, install sound barriers and retaining walls and construct five parking garages across the region to increase capacity by 3,500 vehicles.

From his new corner office in the Water Street Gym building, Stirpe directs a wide array of ventures: • CuseCar, a car - sharing organization with six vehicles that members can rent by the hour.

The model could, for example, be used to anticipate avalanches, to determine the load on buildings caused by snow or calculate the traction of vehicles on snow - covered surfaces by predicting the behaviour of snow.

«Meanwhile, in China, they're really pushing that ball down the field by aggressively building electric vehicles over there.»

The vehicle's self - driving and navigational system was built around a 25 - MIPS laptop based on a microprocessor by Sun Microsystems.

Similar robotic vehicles, built by researchers elsewhere in the U.S. and in Germany, have logged thousands of highway kilometers under all kinds of weather and driving conditions.

Consequently, no launch vehicle today stands ready to take people to the moon and back, although the Falcon Heavy rocket built by private spaceflight firm SpaceX, which is currently in testing, may fill the void.