Switching to an all - wheel drive is another move made
by the car makers based off of customer feedback.
Not exact matches
Over at the Globe and Mail, I popped in on QNX, the Ottawa -
based software company owned
by smartphone
maker BlackBerry, to see what was new and also to see what they thought of the big news of Google's Open Automotive Alliance, which will be pushing Android onto
cars starting this year.
One might recall that the California -
based electric
car maker reported an unremarkable 260 Model 3 vehicles produced and 220 delivered in the third quarter, citing «manufacturing bottlenecks» as the reason for missing its original guidance of 1,500 Model units produced
by the end of September.
Almost every flying
car ever built — from Robert Fulton's 1946 Airphibian (an aluminum
car with detachable fabric wings) to the sleek, folding - wing prototypes now being developed
by Slovakian
maker AeroMobil and Massachusetts -
based Terrafugia — is actually a plane with a modicum of roadworthiness.
(Adds details on future investment)
By Paul Lienert and Bernie Woodall DETROIT, July 31 (Reuters)- Tesla Motors Inc, the California -
based maker of luxury electric
cars, said it expects to build more than 60,000
cars in 2015, after spending heavily this year to update and expand its Fremont assembly plant.
Developed
by Kia's in - house transmission development team in partnership with a German -
based engineering firm, the DCT makes the Korean brand one of a very small number of
car makers in the world to produce its own dual - clutch transmission.
Claimed to have been inspired
by the
car -
maker's Yaris WRC
car, which is set to get its first outing at this month's Monte Carlo Rally, the unnamed Yaris is
based on the three - door version of the small hatchback that's sold in other markets but no longer in Australia.
Mercedes believes a good - looking sedan will have a broader
base of consumers to chose from than the five - door hatchback and two - door coupe offered
by fellow German luxury
car makers.
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Based on the pioneering work of UC Davis professor Andy Frank, the marketing efforts of Felix Kramer and the engineering efforts of EPRI, grid - chargeable hybrids like the one developed
by Energy CS are beginning to get serious attention from both the media and policy
makers, if not
car companies.
Maruti Suzuki Ciaz is
based on the European design and there is no resemblance of its design with any of other
car's manufactured
by the auto
maker.
Still no word yet on the possible merger with rival T - Mobile... Auto parts
maker Delphi is buying autonomous
car startup NuTonomy for $ 400 million... Overstock.com aims to hold the largest - yet initial coin offering, topping FileCoin's $ 257 million offering in August... Uber is adding a «long pickup fee» as part of an effort to make rides more attractive where drivers have to go a distance before starting the ride; the question is how it will go over with riders... AMD returned to profitability driven
by sales of its Ryzen processor, per VentureBeat... Apple acquired New Zealand -
based wireless charging firm PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum... TechCrunch reports that Honolulu has given final approval to a law that fines pedestrians who are looking at their phones while crossing a street.