Sentences with phrase «city cars like»

Honda is planning on a production version for Europe, but it's unlikely to come to the US, where buyers have shown little interest in small electric city cars like the smart fortwo Electric and the Mitsubishi i - MiEV.

Both models come straight from the Tokyo based design studio with unique treatments to both the interior and exterior of the gas sipping compact city cars like custom paint, bespoke interior trim and rather unique sets of rims.

Though Smart redesigned its core model offering for 2016, affordable city cars like this are likely to struggle for success in a modern ride - sharing economy that is awash in cheap fuel.

I found it to be a plucky, and quirky, entry into a field of vehicles that are by definition fairly quirky — namely city cars like the Fiat 500, Mini Cooper and Hyundai Veloster.

Take a small city car like a Chevrolet Spark and drop in an electric powertrain.

If Ford, GM and Chrysler were smart, they would build a city car like this.

Not exact matches

With car ownership estimated to taper off over the next decade, perks like complimentary parking are no longer appealing or possible in metropolitan cities where parking space is limited.

As companies continue to increase the number of tests they conduct in cities, their vehicles are facing the kinds of challenges — like pedestrians and intersections — that are more difficult for self - driving cars to handle.

Honda has already spelled out plans to market a vehicle which can drive itself on highways by 2020, and the new target for city - capable self - driving cars puts its progress slightly behind rivals like BMW.

In return, participating drivers get a sort of seal of approval to display on their cars along with potentially lucrative access to passengers at restricted locations like Austin's airport and the city's many festivals.

It is compact, making it a great fit for city drivers, but also has enough room inside (and trunk space) that you don't feel like you're tooling around in a clown car.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

As car - hailing becomes an increasingly popular option for commuting and running errands in congested cities such as Beijing, Didi is betting that vehicles purpose - built for such services could start to replace familiar everyday automobiles like the Toyota Camry or the Honda Civic.

- A car (unless you live in a large metropolitan city with great public transportation like DC or NYC)

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investocar - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investocar - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCar Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCar Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investoCAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

In many cities, companies like Waymo and Uber have been testing driverless cars for years.

Turo is also battling a lawsuit involving the city of San Francisco that seeks to regulate ride - sharing businesses like rental - car companies and keep Turo out of its airport.

Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self - driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the slow speeds and relatively predictable environment of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose of autonomous vehicles.

I feel like my whole person is filled to the brim with cars, sky scrapers, commuters, city pollution, sidewalks, streetlamps, high heels, take out containers, and all the leftovers of everyday living.

Since I live in a city without a car, I always like to keep frozen proteins on hand so that I only have to buy fresh vegetables each week at the grocery store.

«They rented a car and drove like the wind to Salt Lake City.

From all the other angles, particularly if you walk to the stadium from the center of the city, the Camp Nou looks like a car park.

And, like the Rav 4, it does have the car - door style tailgate that I don't mind (see the Rav 4 review) but can see how it can be a pain if you are often parallel parking in the city.

Piazzas I wish we had Italian - like piazzas in American cities - a place without cars where the community congregates over coffee or again, over nothing at all.

Whether you register for a stroller that matches your car seat, or fancier one like the raved - about City Select stroller, adding a stroller to your registry is a great idea.

Not everyone has a car, especially in a crowded city like ours, and the concept of Lyft is to create a community that offers a friendlier ride when you need it, like getting a lift from a friend.

Like many Bostonians and other city - dwellers, I don't have a car.

Not all double strollers can fit two car seats like the Baby Jogger City Select Double Stroller.

Earlier this year I was traveling with my husband and my small baby in Boston and I had a greater understanding of what life is like as a city dwelling mom with no car.

You'll discover what else parents think and get extensive information like which car seats you can use in the Baby Jogger City Select Lux review.

The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission announced a proposal requiring car services that accept only credit cards — like Uber — to allow passengers to tip the driver using their card.

The bill in the City Council, which could come up for a vote as early as Thursday, would only allow Uber and similar cab - apps like Lyft to bring 201 new cars onto the road in the next year — a steep drop - off from Uber's planned addition of 10,000 new vehicles.

The mayor of Syracuse is warning that her city is nearing a crisis level when it comes to paying for basic services like police cars, water main repairs and road construction.

They think that repeating phrases like the «great cities of the North», will go down well in Yorkshire, opposed to it sounding like the tired old patter of a used car salesman.

Aside from sterilization, the city also plans to use other non-lethal methods of dealing with the animals including public education about living with deer to reduce car crashes and tick - borne illnesses, traffic safety measures like extra signage and to add deer - resistive plantings to the borough.

They had neared agreement to allow ride - hailing outside the five boroughs — where, as a function of the city's economy and regulatory might it functions and is treated like a traditional for - hire car service — during talks about a December special session that never happened.

Ride - sharing companies can currently operate in New York City under an arrangement with the city's powerful regulator, the Taxi & Limousine Commission, that treats them like traditional for - hire car companies rather than full ride - sharing platforms built in part on casual drivCity under an arrangement with the city's powerful regulator, the Taxi & Limousine Commission, that treats them like traditional for - hire car companies rather than full ride - sharing platforms built in part on casual drivcity's powerful regulator, the Taxi & Limousine Commission, that treats them like traditional for - hire car companies rather than full ride - sharing platforms built in part on casual drivers.

An administration source on Friday also said Cuomo would like to see legislation allowing car - hailing services like Uber to operate outside of New York City, a measure that has been popular among Senate Republicans, particularly those who represent upstate areas.

De Blasio had previously said it would be necessary to impose a year - long limit on the growth of Uber - like companies until the impact of the car - hail industry on congestion could be studied, and that the city's interests superceded those of a powerful corporation.

Improved access to public transportation and the availability of other options like car sharing services should be explored by both Erie County and the City of Buffalo.

Like the most recently passed Senate bill, the current Assembly bill would establish a Transportation Network Company Accessibility Task Force that would provide workers» compensation insurance for ride - hailing service drivers through the New York Black Car Operators» Injury Compensation Fund, an injury compensation fund that gives benefits to drivers in New York City.

The frustration with the city has built gradually, like damage to your car driving over pothole after pothole on the Island's more neglected roadways.

There is also draft language about allowing car - hailing services like Uber to operate outside of New York City, two sources said, which Cuomo's team put on the table as a late priority.

«Only this City Council and this committee have the jurisdiction and the authority to make this change,» she said, predicting a backfire from the powerful tech sector like the one de Blasio and his team faced when they attempted to cap the number of new e-hail cars in 2015.

A new website site allows city tax payers to see how much agencies spend on things like liquor and car services.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

Smaller, dwarf galaxies travel toward the intersections along long dark matter filaments, like cars on roads leading into a city.

Electric cars caught on fire in several pilot cities such like Shanghai and Hangzhou.

And among all the pilot cities, the company statistics show, no more than half the target was met in the best case, and in places like central China's Xiangyang, for instance, only seven clean cars were added on the roads since late 2010.