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Data from the U.S. government show that car fleets from Japanese firms Toyota and Honda have consistently been above the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that manufacturers are supposed to meet (small graphs below).
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Five years from now, Zimmer foresees a fully autonomous fleet of cars providing most Lyft rides.
Though headquarters balked, Tesla in China was soon encouraging fleet sales orders of 100 or more cars from car - rental agencies and institutions, to jump - start demand.
Add in productivity gains and fuel savings from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the car rental service has a fleet of 2,000 vehicles, 10 percent of them hybrids, available to drivers from Toronto to Minneapolis to Boston and Washington, D.C..
That's partially due to one less selling day in the month and lower demand from fleet customers, like rental car companies.
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.
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.
Late last year, the mainland proposed automakers should make new energy vehicles account for 8 percent of total car fleets by 2018 despite booming demand for SUVs — first - quarter SUV sales rose 21 percent on - year to 2.4 million, according to data from the Associated Press.
But Uber is facing steep competition from Waymo, which just rolled out the first fleet of driverless cars in Phoenix, AZ, and other players like GM's Cruise.
Many believe self - driving vehicles will lead to an overall decline in cars on the road as people shift from owning their own cars to utilizing a shared fleet of on - demand self - driving cars.
And Uber also operates an autonomous test fleet in Pittsburgh, where it lured top computer - vision and robotics researchers from Carnegie Mellon to help it transform car services from flex work to automation.
According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».
After reverse engineering what they could salvage from a fleet of autonomous Pizza Hut delivery trucks and Tesla saloons into a grid of Formula E cars, those few survivors that are fluent in the lost art of manual driving climb into the cockpits.
«Wrapping is increasingly popular with all kinds of vehicle owners, from large fleet operators to self - employed tradesmen, car customisers and vehicle owners who simply want a new look without the hassle and expense of repainting,» continued Brewer.
The saga of the missing cars at the Presidency was revived after Mr. Mahama refuted allegations that members of his administration stole cars from the presidential fleet during an interview on GTV on Tuesday.
Schumer says thanks to his efforts, a fleet of some 25 baggage - bicycle cars is being built at the Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) Facility in Elmira, and he'd like nothing less than seeing them added to passenger lines traveling upstate from Penn Station.
Aggressiveness among the Volkswagen Santanas that make up the majority of the taxi fleet here is rewarded and the air is filled with the fumes from thousands of cars.
The world's car fleet is set to triple by 2050 to two billion autos with 80 percent of that growth coming from rapidly industrializing nations like India that currently do not have fuel economy rules (although the fastest growing car market — China — has tougher regulations than the U.S.).
This gap in research has now been closed by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000 battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their vehicles.
Professor Rakotonirainy, from QUT's Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety — Queensland (CARRS), has researched the security systems of existing fleet, future autonomous and connected cars and found there was little protection against hacking.
This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.
The fuel savings from an efficient car would be enough to power all the world's airplane fleets, says MacCready.
And, in addition to learning where and when EV owners charge up their cars, Volt manufacturer General Motors is hoping to learn from the folks in the Pecan Street project how a residential fleet of electric vehicles might change the electric grid.
Ed Gonzales, Slant Magazine: Butler, whether sliding out of a car door to shoot at a pursuer or jumping from scaffolding and into a nearby building, is as fleet on his feet as Najafi is in his sculpting of the film's flurry of action.
The ride - hailing company offers up a large fleet of cars from which to gather data and help improve self - driving systems.
Chrysler is still putting lots of cars into fleets, but it has reduced incentive spending from the pay - anything year - ago levels.
If your budget, or more than likely your fleet manager, insists on a car that drinks from the black pump, the ST TDCi delivers a performance worthy of the badge
We received our first serious snow dump in Ann Arbor last week, but the Automobile Magazine fleet of Four Seasons test vehicles was ready for the cold, since we had fitted each car with a set of winter tires from various manufacturers well before Thanksgiving with the assistance of the Tire Rack, ou
In the rental - car experience, a customer using a smartphone to find and reserve a car would receive a digital key from a fleet manager to download.
Four senators are giving the bill that forces rental car companies to pull recalled cars from their fleet another go, as the legislation was brought back into question this month.
We received our first serious snow dump in Ann Arbor last week, but the Automobile Magazine fleet of Four Seasons test vehicles was ready for the cold, since we had fitted each car with a set of winter tires from various manufacturers well before Thanksgiving with the assistance of the Tire Rack, our official wheel and tire partner.
The poor Golf has taken a bit of stick during its time on the fleet so far, mostly for the less - than - smooth operation of its DSG gearbox, but it says a lot for what the car can do that, every time I'm away from it, I miss it.
The SportKa was a beneficiary of Ford's transition from peddler of dreary fleet cars in the 1980s to a builder of genuinely entertaining family hatchbacks through the 1990s.
Chassis 003 is being sold with a comprehensive spares package, though as evo learned on a visit to Mazda's North American heritage fleet basement, the firm's Wankel - engined Group C cars are far from being as scary to run as some of their contemporaries.
John Krafcik, Hyundai Motor America's president and CEO, said the response to the car at this year's New York auto show, along with positive comments from consumers and dealers who have spent time with a travelling test fleet of Korean - market Equus sedans, has prompted Hyundai to bring the sedan over to the U.S.
We call this automated driving, as opposed to the fully autonomous driving done by Google's fleet of Toyota Prius and Lexus RX450h cars that can fully drive themselves, from start to finish.
Honda Civic was first launched in the profitable Indian car market in year, 2006 and has been one of the top selling premium sedans from their fleet in the country.
Here are some of my thoughts about the car after driving one from the press fleet.
We were doubly excited when car shopping website Edmunds.com broke from tradition and added a 49 - year - old 1966 Corvette Sting Ray to its long - term test fleet.
Our fleet department has Nissan vehicles for commercial businesses from vans to sedans, and we also have Uber specialists to help you find the right car for your Uber driving needs.
2010 - 2014 Ford Taurus full - size sedans are the flagships of the Blue Oval's passenger car fleet, and as such they benefit from some of the sturdiest design elements available from the brand.
Presented with a fleet of high - end sports cars to choose from, Pobst ended up going with Godzilla: the Nissan GT - R.
Despite both cars being essentially identical, Australia was given a different code due to the car occupying a broader range in that market — from a fleet vehicle to a sports - oriented model.
On the contrary, the self - driving team said that the tech is fed through its fleet of autonomous cars through deep learning technology, enabling all the Google cars to share these tests and experiences from real - world driving situations.
Car - rental company Hertz has added electric vehicles to its fleet in San Francisco, available to members of the Hertz On Demand program.Renters can choose from the Nissan Leaf, the Smart EV or the...
Its fleet includes the usual suspects like economy cars and crossovers that will get you from point A to point B, but certain locations also offer Land Rover, Porsche, Mercedes - Benz, Alfa Romeo, and even Tesla vehicles.
You will find a lot of pre-owned cars coming from rental companies or companies» business car fleets.
On today's show... VW wants to win back the public's trust with a fleet of new electric cars... Ford reveals horsepower numbers for the new Raptor... and we'll take a look at a number of new vehicles from the Paris auto show.
Audi connect online services also provide the car - to - X services traffic sign and hazard information that use swarm intelligence from the Audi fleet and network the Audi A6 with its environment.