Car production at German plants was reduced by 13 percent to 474,900 vehicles in March, bringing the three - month volume decline to 11 percent, the VDA said.
In a letter to shareholders, CEO Elon Musk has announced its intention to top the company's electric
car production at 100,000 units by 2015.
Not exact matches
South Korea - based Kia Motors (kimtf) last year started
production at a new plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, while sister firm Hyundai Motor (hymtf) will begin making
cars at Kia's Mexico plant this year.
It faces a catch - 22: It won't sell
cars at lower prices that drive sales if it doesn't produce them locally, but local
production won't be economical until sales rise drastically.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he is sleeping on a couch, when he sleeps
at all, while trying to ramp electric
car production.
And with traditional automakers slow to cannibalize their combustion engine vehicles, he thinks it's going to be hard for them catch up to on electric, despite the
production problems plaguing Tesla's new Model 3 sedan, its first vehicle aimed
at the mass
car - buying market.
Faraday Future has talked a big game since debuting a concept vehicle
at last year's CES but had yet to unveil an actual
production car.
Faraday Future, the ambitious California automotive startup that has positioned itself as a Tesla killer, finally unveiled its first
production car Tuesday night in Las Vegas
at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show.
The four - door concept
car, clad in «Hot Red» livery, offers the public a sneak peek
at an upcoming
production model developed independently by AMG.
For now, Chevrolet alone still sells somewhere around 12
car models if you count Corvette, although there have been rumors and news it will cut or end
production of
at least some of those.
The investment thesis around the company hinges on its ability to boost
production of the
car, manufacturing it profitably and with good build quality, according to Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst
at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co..
Regulators have given Mercedes - Benz a license to test the new E-Class standard -
production cars in autonomous mode, announced the company's parent company Daimler (ddaif) AG
at CES, an annual consumer electronics industry trade show in Las Vegas.
He's committed to running the company
at least through the projected ramp up in
production of a third - generation
car, which is
at least three to four years away.
However, in the long run, this will be a losing strategy for American workers if it forces Carrier to sell its air conditioners on the world market
at non-competitive prices, or replace its
production workers with robots, as Tesla (TSLA) has done in producing its electric
cars.
That
car was delayed for years, and it faced slow
production at the end of 2015 and into early 2016.
The
car, which is expected to go into
production toward the end of the year, will be capable of traveling up to 200 miles on a single charge and is priced
at $ 37,500 ($ 30,000 after tax credits), making it within reach of average consumers.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra says company expanding
production of Chevrolet Bolt electric
car at Detroit - area plant as EV demand grows.
Tesla says this low rate is due to «
production bottlenecks,» attributing the issues to delays in activating a number of its manufacturing subsystems in its California
car plant and Nevada Gigafactory, which are normally «able to operate
at high rate.»
Emblems of VW Golf VII
car are pictured in a
production line
at the plant of German carmaker Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, February 25, 2013.
Workers
at Tesla's California
car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the
production line, say employees.
Faraday Future's PR team continues to operate in overdrive as the company prepares to debut its first
production car at CES 2017 in Las Vegas on...
Faraday Future finally took the wraps off its planned
production car, named FF 91, last night
at CES 2017.
An analyst
at Citigroup Inc. wrote Tuesday that Tesla may be struggling to convert
car shoppers into Model 3 buyers, while Robert W. Baird & Co. said Monday the company might not achieve its weekly
production goal by the end of March.
Workers
at Tesla's California
car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the
production line and requiring rides in ambulances, the Guardian reported Thursday.
Tesla Inc. is suspending
production of the Model 3 sedan for
at least the second time in roughly two months, just after Chief Executive Elon Musk admitted to mistakes that hindered his most important
car.
Tesla Inc. is temporarily suspending
production of the Model 3 sedan for
at least the second time in roughly two months, just after Elon Musk admitted to mistakes that hindered his most important
car.
Faraday Future unveiled its concept
car FFZero1
at the CES 2016, and it looks like it's one step closer to becoming a reality as the company aims to start its
production line by 2018.
Faraday Future, once hyped as a legitimate challenger to electric
car industry leader Tesla Motors, finally unveiled a
production electric vehicle
at CES 2017.
FILE PHOTO: Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk introduces one of the first Model 3
cars off the Fremont factory's
production line during an event
at the company's facilities in Fremont, California, U.S., July 28, 2017.
One factor in the poor industrial
production figures for October was high
car production in the previous months as automakers canceled planned summer holiday shutdowns
at production sites, Koch said.
Toyota Motor Corp. said it would suspend manufacturing
at its domestic plants through Wednesday - a
production loss of 40,000
cars.
The collaboration has seen the
production of the extreme Aston Martin Valkyrie, an Adrian Newey - designed hypercar which could well be as fast as an F1
car when the first prototypes are built
at the end of the year.
If I were to set up a
car dealership selling new luxury
cars at 40 % below the cost of
production I would very quickly build massive revenues and quickly become the biggest dealership in the country.
Volvo showed the two fastest
production cars in the company's history
at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show.
Honda will receive a small credit for producing CNG
cars under the new fuel economy rules for 2017 - 2025 but in the meantime intends to keep
production steady
at around 2,000 to 3,000
at its plant in Greensburg, Ind..
Paul Morozzo, clean air campaigner
at Greenpeace, said: «If
cars coming off the
production line had dodgy brakes, you know the Government would step in to sort it out.
Or,
at least one of the safest
production cars that the U.S. federal government has ever tested.
In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the
production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid
cars.
But
at $ 109,000 each the Roadsters are not cheap, and like more established
car makers Tesla has been hit hard by the recent turmoil in financial markets as well as by cost overruns and
production delays for the
car.
The
production version of the Audi e-tron prototype is the first
car on the market that can charge
at charging stations with up to 150 kW.
Major employers include the Honda
car production plant
at an old Vickers factory site on the former World War II RAF base of South Marston; BMW / Mini formerly Pressed Steel Fisher in Stratton; mobile phone company Motorola; Dolby Labs; and retailer W H Smiths distribution center and headquarters.
The Ford GT, a super
car that will go into
production next year, is unveiled
at the Detroit Auto Show this week.
Alongside Lasseter were Jay Ward (essentially the bigwig of the
Cars franchise
at Pixar) and Jay Shuster (
production designer of the films).
However, it's likely to share its basic underpinnings with the
production car, meaning an electric motor
at each axle, a combined power output of 394bhp or more, and a 0 - 62mph figure of around 4sec or less.
Lambo just unveiled the Aventador SV, its most powerful
production car ever, and we recently featured it in a first drive before it made its debut
at Goodwood.
Production of the McLaren P1 GTR, which is being sold only to existing P1 owners
at a price of $ 3.36 million, will begin once McLaren finishes building the final 375th P1 road
car.
Although it's possible that this teaser could preview the
production version of the Infiniti Q30 compact, we think that
car will instead debut
at the Los Angeles auto show in November.
You'll be able to check out the Concept 8 Series on the lawn
at Pebble Beach during Monterey
Car Week and stay tuned for a
production debut later this year.
No other
production car revs this high; it's just a shame the engine sounds so limp - wristed
at idle.
Citroen has revealed a new concept
car, which could go into
production, and points
at what future models in the C - range could look like.