Sentences with phrase «car fleets in»

Past Chrysler offerings, such as the last - generation 200, were sold to rental - car fleets in large volumes, decreasing the automaker's profitability.

Alongside the BMW i8 Coupé, the new battery - electric BMW i3s (combined fuel consumption: 0.0 l / 100 km; combined energy consumption: 14.3 kWh / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g / km) as «Medical Car» and «Race Director Car», and the BMW X5 xDrive40e (combined fuel consumption: 3.4 to 3.3 l / 100 km; combined energy consumption: 15.4 to 15.3 kWh / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 78 — 77 g / km) as «Rescue Car» are part of the BMW i car fleet in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship.

The new BMW M5 MotoGP Safety Car will debut at the MotoGP season finale in Valencia, Spain (10th to 12th November) and will speerhead the Safety Car fleet in the 2018 season.

Now that the Obama Administration has greatly tightened US standards, we are set to have the most petrol - guzzling car fleet in the entire world.

Not exact matches

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.

Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

The company now operates in 10 cities, has a fleet of 2,000 cars and 300,000 users, and has grown revenue to more than $ 20 million.

In addition to keyless entry, the module also mines the car's data, looking at things like speed patterns, energy consumption, and other information that would help the fleet managers better train their drivers, and understand how to optimize the system.

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.

Now operating in 10 cities, Getaround has 300,000 users, a fleet of 2,000 cars, and revenue of more than $ 20 million.

Ford still plans to roll out a fleet of self - driving cars in an unnamed city in 2021 for ride - sharing, but even these vehicles will only be able to operate under certain conditions.

The EPA said in July that because Americans were buying fewer cars and more SUVs and trucks, it estimated the fleet will average 50.8 mpg to 52.6 mpg in 2025.

Volvo is currently deploying a test fleet of 100 largely autonomous cars among ordinary drivers in Sweden, though the AVs will be restricted to certain roads and speeds.

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..

Of course, Uber is also outfitting its own fleet of self - driving cars and is conducting pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona for that purpose.

There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.

While Google is not any entrepreneur's rival of choice, Vogt is right that it has made his task easier in one regard: The tech behemoth has proved the concept works, having famously tested a fleet of self - driving Toyota Prius cars and Lexus RX luxury crossovers while mapping every inch of northern California and racking up more than 700,000 miles of robotic driving.

And Toyota has designed the i - ROAD, a small, electric concept car eventually meant to be deployed in urban fleets and shared, similar to the bike shares popping up in many cities.

The turnover in the U.S. car fleet is about 10 years, so if everyone bought an electric car the next time they bought a car, you'd have 95 percent electric cars in 10 years.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

In a world of driverless cars, U.S. auto sales would plummet, vehicle ownership falls 50 % and opportunities in fleet management, tech and mapping arisIn a world of driverless cars, U.S. auto sales would plummet, vehicle ownership falls 50 % and opportunities in fleet management, tech and mapping arisin fleet management, tech and mapping arise.

That's partially due to one less selling day in the month and lower demand from fleet customers, like rental car companies.

All it has to do to be competitive in the self - driving world is acquire a fleet of cars, or partner with someone willing to handle that side of things.

In exchange for the fee, members can reserve and drive any of the company's 30 - plus fleet of new and vintage cars.

Although apparently you no longer see rental car fleets with licenses with something like «AV» or «HZ» in the registration number, rental cars usually carry less obvious identifiers.

Uber is sending a fleet of semi-autonomous cars to pick up passengers in downtown Pittsburgh this month, according to a Bloomberg report.

Google already has a fleet of 48 robot cars that have clocked in more than 2 million miles on private tracks, highways and roads across the U.S.

The second generation of its first ever production car released in 2008, the Tesla Roadster, will not only be the company's quickest accelerating car in its fleet, but also the world's quickest on many levels.

According to the company, the «alliance» announced in Beijing on Tuesday was designed to «become a provider of integrated transportation services combining auto leasing and sales, auto finance, auto service, fleet operation and car - sharing solutions in China and beyond».

He owns a fleet of cars, trucks, aircraft and boats, most of which are stored in a secret hangar beneath the Hudson River guised as The Hildago Trading Company.

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.

In addition to the financial benefits and competitive advantage over Lyft, being the first with driverless cars operating in an on - demand fleet has significant technological benefitIn addition to the financial benefits and competitive advantage over Lyft, being the first with driverless cars operating in an on - demand fleet has significant technological benefitin an on - demand fleet has significant technological benefits.

The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride - hail service and setting up a fleet - management center.

So far, this is the largest number of cars that any two companies have agreed to develop that will serve in a commercial driverless fleet.

Most industry and analyst expectations are for US light vehicle volumes to increase again in 2012, underpinned by a very aged fleet of vehicles on the road in the US, reasonable flow of consumer credit for car loans, and a slowly improving US consumer.

While other automobile manufacturers such as Ford and GM are looking to introduce their systems in fleets of taxi - style cars, Volvo will be releasing its technology directly on vehicles that can be purchased by individuals.

Executives at GM have expressed frustration that comparisons of monthly U.S. sales results among rival automakers are distorted by short - term discount programs, and by differences in strategy for selling vehicles in bulk to rental car fleets.

The program was set in place to determine the viability and feasibility of a potential self - driving fleet of cars integrating into Uber's main ride - hailing service.

In other related news, the company has teamed up with Fiat Chrysler to increase its fleet of self - driving cars by about twofold, particularly the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan fitted with the technology.

A fleet of self - driving cars will hit London in early 2017, and will take a different approach compared to other autonomous driving trials.

New investment companies like YieldStreet offer an opportunity to invest in a wide variety of secured loans, including loans backed by residential real estate, pending legal settlements, or even a fleet of Uber cars.

These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles based on a completely new architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.

In December, just hours after rolling out its self - driving cars in San Francisco, Uber sent its fleet packing to Arizona after California's Department of Motor Vehicles told the company it had not requested the necessary permitIn December, just hours after rolling out its self - driving cars in San Francisco, Uber sent its fleet packing to Arizona after California's Department of Motor Vehicles told the company it had not requested the necessary permitin San Francisco, Uber sent its fleet packing to Arizona after California's Department of Motor Vehicles told the company it had not requested the necessary permits.

In a letter addressed to Anthony Levandowski, the co-founder of Otto and now head of Uber's self - driving unit, the California DMV demanded that the ride - hail company stop operating its fleet of self - driving cars.

Cruise has developed driverless versions of the electric Chevrolet Bolt, plus an app to use the cars as robotaxis in a ride - hailing fleet starting next year.

Reuters reported in February that General Motors Co's plans to deploy thousands of self - driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with Lyft, beginning in 2018, citing two sources familiar with the automaker's plans.

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.

The race to develop a self - driving vehicle fleet has intensified since February when Bloomberg reported that Google was developing a rival to Uber Technologies Inc., most likely in conjunction with its driverless - car project.

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.

OBR is a 501 (c)(3) charity and it has a list of Competition BBQ teams who have big rigs, mobile kitchens, and pitmasters who can hop in their cars and be on the road in a hurry, and they even have a small fleet of mobile kitchens they own.