Sentences with phrase «car startup»

The electric - sports - car startup said the new transmission will be paired with a higher - voltage power electronics module, which will deliver more electrical currents into the system.

There is long history of beautiful cars made by failed car startups.

A month from the make - or - break debut of its supposed production car at CES in Las Vegas, all is far from well at Chinese - backed electric car startup Faraday Future.

Another founding executive has left the troubled electric car startup Faraday Future, Jalopnik has learned.

Ford also bought self - driving car startup Cruise Automation in March for $ 1 billion to bolster its autonomous car efforts.

The Verge has learned that Alan Cherry, who was part of the original leadership team that founded the ambitious electric car startup back in 2014, announced that he was «stepping away» from the company during an all - hands meeting at the company's headquarters today.

Electric car startup Fisker Automotive said Tuesday it has raised $ 65 million to develop and make its first car model, the Fisker Karma, a plug - in hybrid sports car.

Flying cars have lurked in our collective imaginations for decades, but the idea of personal, roadable aircraft took on renewed emphasis this summer when it was revealed that Google co-founder Larry Page was funding a pair of flying car startups, Kitty Hawk and Zee.Aero.

At this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chinese - funded electric car startup Byton debuted its first vehicle.

GM confirmed today that it is acquiring the self - driving car startup Cruise Automation for an undisclosed amount.

Chinese - backed electric car startups in the U.S. — namely, Faraday Future and Lucid Motors — have struggled to get their projects up and running on the schedules they project, mostly due to fundraising delays.

The agreement, which was signed Wednesday, covers three primary points: the recruitment of Tesla employees, an independent audit, and $ 100,000 paid by self - driving car startup Aurora Innovation LLC to Tesla.

All of this hinges, however, on approval of loans from the DOE's $ 25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program — the same program under which rival battery maker Ener1 has asked for $ 480 million to accelerate production capacity and electric sports car startup Tesla Motors has applied for about $ 400 million to build its Model S sedan facility in San Jose, Calif..

About a year ago Faraday Future emerged, a new car startup with big promises to take on Tesla with all - electric, self - driving cars based out of Silicon Valley and funded by the Chinese tech billionaire Jia Yueting.

«It's clear Mr. Jia doesn't have any money,» Nevada State Treasurer Dan Schwarz recently said of Jia Yueting, the tech mogul behind the mysterious Silicon Valley car startup Faraday Future.

Green Sheet reports that Tesla, the electric car startup led by Elon Musk, is recalling 345 roadsters.

It's only been a year since news broke about a new secretive, self - driving car startup called Aurora and the startup is already announcing two giant auto - maker as customers: Volkswagen and Hyundai.

NuTonomy, a self - driving car startup spun out of MIT and based in Cambridge, Mass., will soon begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Boston.

The electric car startup joined Formula E last summer as part of a multi-year commercial and technical contract with Dragon Racing, and raced all year with its criss - cross logo adorning the team's cars.

A new memo from Chinese tech billionaire Jia Yueting shows him finally recognizing how overambitious he's been with his mysterious electric and autonomous car startups Faraday Future and LeEco.

The mysterious flying - car startup funded by Google cofounder Larry Page, Kitty Hawk, took the wraps off its first vehicle on Monday.

For Waymo, Argo is the latest car startup to be hatched by one of its former engineers.

Although the company declined to disclose when its self - driving technology will be available for integration, it noted that it's still on schedule to begin rolling out with Cambridge, Mass. - based self - driving car startup nuTonomy.

Used - car startup Carvana keeps things fresh by giving each room a distinct feel.

Elon Musk's electric car startup finally made the cut after growing sales a whopping 73 % last year.

Ever since Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the company is working on «autonomous systems» for cars, details have trickled out as well as a few public sightings of the technology Now, thanks to the co-founder of self - driving car startup Voyage, we're getting an up close look at — and some expert insight on — Apple's Project Titan.

NuTonomy, a driverless car startup that spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three years ago, has its sights set on operating a fully autonomous taxi service in Singapore.

(I've heard countless horror stories of the latter, especially from the auto industry when I was closely covering the self - driving car startups last year.)

Ten years ago, Elon Musk revealed his first «master plan» for electric car startup company Tesla Motors.

Interestingly, a road - legal track car startup called Elemental got closest to the aero setup on Aston Martin / Red Bull's crazy machine.

Last weekend, the Silicon Valley electric car startup Project Better Place said that Renault - Nissan, which is its partner, would likely spend between $ 500 million and $ 1 billion on building electric cars.

Environmentalists and the state's electric car startups chided the decision.

I'm impressed by BYD, the Chinese battery and electric car company, and by Better Place, Shai Agassi's bold electric - car startup aimed at transforming the global automobile industry.

DETROIT / BEIJING (Reuters)- Electric luxury car startup Faraday Future, one of several Chinese - funded companies taking aim at Elon Musk's Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), is throttling back on plans to build vehicles in the United States, the company and public officials said.

He invested in an electric car startup known as Atieva (now called Lucid Motors), and pushed LeEco to develop an EV of its own.

If true, though, it would mean Faraday — which has had notable struggles to even finish the design of its first car, despite having spent hundreds of millions of dollars so far — managed to raise nearly as much as electric car startup NIO reportedly netted in a recent round of fundraising.

Those reports from the summer that Volvo's parent company had snapped up flying car startup Terrafugia?

The electric car startup intends to build a $ 1 billion factory somewhere in Nevada, California, Louisiana or Georgia, planning on rolling out vehicles sometime in 2017.

Bankrolled by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, the electric car startup announced today a new partnership with Dragon Racing that will see the company lend its expertise towards producing an electric car for use in the FIA Formula E Championship.

Like a few other relatively new Chinese car startups, Byton is based in China but has an office in Silicon Valley.

Electric car startup Fisker Automotive took the opportunity of the LA Auto Show to meet with members of the media and divulged to the Detroit Bureau (hat tip Autoblog Green) that it is looking for a «better financed partner.»

On Sunday at CES, new Chinese - backed car startup Byton unveiled its first drivable prototype — an electric crossover with a screen for a dashboard that's set to launch in late 2019.

The California - based electric car startup says the car will utilize an industry leading 130 kWh battery that's capable of driving 378 miles on a single charge.

You have no idea what a mess things are behind the scenes at the mysterious car startup Faraday Future.

This week, Bloomberg reported on WM Motor, an electric car startup led by Freeman Shen, the exec behind the acquisition of Volvo by Chinese auto maker Zhejiang Geely.

Waymo, the self - driving car startup spun - off from Google late last year, will be deploying its fleet of self - driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans onto public roads for the first time later this month, the company announced at the North American International Auto Show today.

It was a somewhat goofy, but totally sci - fi prototype that went on to inspire Google founder Larry Page to launch his own flying car startups, Zee Aero and Kitty Hawk, late last year.

Next month, Faraday Future, the secretive electric car startup backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, is set to debut its first production vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show.

But unlike many others in his age cohort, Vogt sold his self - driving - car startup Cruise to General Motors (gm) for $ 1 billion in 2016 — and therefore has the money to do something about it.