Sentences with phrase «companies built cars»

The companies built cars that played to their strengths.

«For me to see this company build these cars in New Mexico drove me absolutely insane.»

«We have no intention of breaking up the company or giving it to the Chinese,» Sergio Marchionne, whose company builds cars in China with GAC, confirmed at the Detroit motor show.

Not exact matches

Toyota Motor (tm) on Thursday said that company President Akio Toyoda met with U.S. Vice President - elect Mike Pence in Washington earlier this week as the incoming U.S. administration pressures automakers to build more cars locally.

Today, a handful of Chinese companies and cities are feverishly courting Tesla for a joint venture, Fortune has learned, and Musk has said his company could begin building cars in China before the end of 2018.

Some companies, like Audi and Chevrolet, are selling cars with Internet modems and touch - screen systems built in.

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• Nexar, a San Francisco - based technology company building a mobile application that offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars, raised $ 30 million in funding.

We're the only company in Silicon Valley that's not building a car,» Sandberg said to laughter and applause at the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt motor show, where she met German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The North is sitting on US$ 6 trillion worth of minerals, according to a South Korean state - owned mining company, including rare earth metals, which are used to build everything from smart cars to iPhones.

Rather than hiring designers and building a plant like a typical small car company, Eberhard outsourced the manufacturing.

When I founded Zipcar we were very community focused, we had lot of parties where we provided the transportation and they provided the potluck picnics or the destination, and whenever I needed cars or parking locations or new employees or surveys of what cars to buy, I went to my customers, all the time they were front and center and part of building that company.

The ultimate goal of the Boring Company is to build an underground tunnel network that can support cars or a Hyperloop, but currently it's digging a test tunnel in the SpaceX parking lot.

The S7, which was introduced in 2002, is the first car his company, based in Irvine, California, has built from scratch.

«We need someone who can build Tesla into the next great car company,» he says.

Eight years ago Buffett invested $ 232 million for a nearly 10 % stake in BYD (Build Your Dreams), a Chinese company that makes lithium - ion batteries and electric cars.

With the Boring Company, Musk aims to build a network of underground tunnels in Los Angeles that would move cars on electric skates.

Of the 500 cars the company plans to build over the next decade, more than half of them have already been sold.

Musk's point was that if Tesla engaged in conventional advertising strategies — the company currently does almost no advertising — it could increase demand, but its more pressing issue now is being able to simply built its cars, and build them well.

This group knows better than anyone else how hard it is to build an electric car company, a solar company, and a rocket company from scratch.

In both parts one and two, he outlines how he wants to build more than just an electric car company.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propcompany SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propCompany to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

Although Ford says it could have built the car alone, «collaborating with a company like Magna is ideal because they had already been developing some of these technologies,» says Sharif Marakby, Ford's director of electrification programs and engineering.

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded and hotly competitive field of automakers and technology companies aiming to build fleets of self - driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

On the cost front, the company has been able to lower the price of its cars — built by Renault - Nissan — to about $ 30,000.

During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Musk recounted the company's bumpy road to building an electric car.

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.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

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..

Bloomberg noted there's more than 200 Chinese electric car companies building 4,000 new electric car models.

In fact, Tesla actually made all of its technology open source in 2014, so that other car companies can use its tech to build their own electric vehicles.

Although Cook acknowledged Apple is working on car technology, he didn't rule out the possibility of his company eventually building its own car.

During O'Connell's speech, he boasted reservations for the Model 3 «have exceeded all of our expectations as far as the rate at which we received reservations,» further describing the Model 3 as «the car for which the company was really set up to build.»

Zimmer's prediction counters that of Elon Musk, whose company, Tesla, is gradually building self - driving electric cars.

The company had originally aimed to build 5,000 cars a week by December, but now the company foresees hitting that production level by the end of the first quarter, so sometime around March.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

The Tesla founder says it is impossible for his company to build new cars quickly enough to make a difference when it comes to climate change.

Car technology has become a prime area of interest for Silicon Valley companies ranging from Google Inc, which has built a prototype self - driving car, to electric car - maker Tesla Motors InCar technology has become a prime area of interest for Silicon Valley companies ranging from Google Inc, which has built a prototype self - driving car, to electric car - maker Tesla Motors Incar, to electric car - maker Tesla Motors Incar - maker Tesla Motors Inc..

In 2008, the company built its most recent Indian plant in the city of Vadodara, making it the first multinational with the capacity to manufacture complete railway cars in India.

While the company's primary mission is to deploy a self - driving taxi fleet service, it also works with major automakers and suppliers to help these companies develop and build autonomous features for their cars.

Then again, when Musk said he would build an electric car company that would change the auto industry, there were many people chortling.

Trump said BMW should build its new car factory in the United States because this would be «much better» for the company.

And that's tough to do when you're an online ad company building solar - powered balloons, self - driving cars, and robots.

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Musk has told investors the company is focused on Model 3 production and expects to eventually build 10,000 cars a week.

Tesla represents an attempt by Silicon Valley to build a car company, and will rely on government money to put the Model S into production.

They included SpaceX, the spaceflight company; Tesla, the electric - car manufacturer; SolarCity, a Tesla subsidiary that provides solar energy; and Hyperloop, the project to build a cross-country, high - speed transportation system.

Bloomberg's Model 3 tracker estimates the company may be making about 975 of the cars a week, well short of the target to build at a 2,500 - unit rate by the end of this quarter.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.