Sentences with phrase «drive production costs»

These can help drive production costs down until other energy costs rise to make large - scale fuel production worthwhile.

Even hiring just one famous person to narrate the book, drives the production costs up exponentially.

Forced displacement of gas with unreliable renewables drives the gas plant capacity factor downward, driving the production cost upward.

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And because the final price of many products that Americans buy is made up mostly of the labor costs associated with production, wages are a very important driving factor of inflation.

It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production.

The result of keeping the plant in Indiana open is a $ 16 million investment to drive down the cost of production, so as to reduce the cost gap with operating in Mexico.

The idea of driving up wages in Mexico is designed to reduce the gap in costs of production between the countries, and lessen the incentives for companies to shift jobs there.

The fees are one of many factors driving up the cost of buying or renting a home, including income inequality, restrictive zoning, low construction productivity, a historic slowdown in housing production, and high prices for land, materials, and labor.

By the end of the first year of volume production of our mass market vehicle, we expect the Gigafactory will have driven down the per kWh cost of our battery pack by more than 30 percent.

Take, for instance, the expansion of production costs, driven by expansion of media and only to be compounded by real - time data.

With this issue on the minds of marketers, there has been no material move by agencies to find ways to drive down production costs and improve cycle time.

Saudi production costs are a fraction of those from the new supply sources that are driving the gains in North American oil production.

The year - over-year improvement was driven primarily by a sharp decline in production costs -LRB--16 %), which more than offset a 2 % pullback in sales.

Over time this means that households will retain a growing share of China's total production of goods and services (at the expense of the elite, of course, who benefitted from subsidized borrowing costs) and so not only will they not be hurt by a sharp fall in GDP growth, but their consumption will increasingly drive growth and innovation in China.

The year - over-year improvement was driven primarily by reduced taxes, lower restructuring charges, and a modest top - line advance (+1 %), partially offset by increased production (+4 %), SG&A (+3 %), and research & development (+2 %) costs.

The bottom - line improvement was driven by continued reductions in production costs -LRB--16 %) and modestly higher revenues (+1 %).

In its third - quarter shareholder letter, Tesla management said it expected higher per - unit vehicle production costs, driven by low - volume early production Model 3 units, to continue to negatively impact the company's automotive gross profit margin.

Gold production and costs for the quarter were in line with expectations, with higher production and lower costs expected in the second half of 2018 driven by the timing of capital expenditures, higher throughput, and improved grades.

The shale - growth - driven natural gas output is expected to bring benefits to the petrochemical industry as manufacturers will continue to enjoy low - cost feedstock for plants in and close to areas where shale gas and natural gas plant liquids production is abundant.

While reusable rockets will help drive those costs down, so too will the mass - production of satellites and the maturation of satellite technology.

Our ERP solutions provide real - time business and production management data, so you can streamline operations and drive costs out your processes.

Supplying extremely cost - efficient production solutions both for bulk and premium products, Tetra Pak also helps UHT milk producers drive down operating costs.

These would drive up inflation as cost of production would rise, increase treasury rates as many individuals would be chasing few money, and what have you.

But once outside the customs union, the relentless downward pressure on production costs will drive yet more farmers out of business.

Adoption of clean coal technologies like carbon capture and storage also will be a heavy lift for the utility sector, since they can significantly drive up production costs.

Hong says that large - scale manufacturing facilities should help drive down the cost of production, and touch screens based on graphene may be commercially available in as little as two years.

«New, simple technique may drive down biofuel production costs.»

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, which may drive down the cost of biofuel production.

High oil prices and a weaker dollar have played some part by driving up production costs, but they can not come close to explaining why wholesale food prices have doubled since 2004.

In the future, these probes will be used for the analysis and inspection of magnetic storage media in order to identify defective hard drive segments and thus considerably reduce rejection rates and production costs.

«The goal of concentrating solar power and SERIIUS is to develop efficient, cost - effective solar - driven electricity production with energy storage,» Ho said.

Winston's postdoc Lun Jiang notes that in the 1990s, evacuated tubes used for solar water heating cost more than US$ 100 per meter, but they now cost just $ 2 — 3 because of mass production driven by widespread use of the systems in China.

Limited supply has driven up the cost of the drug, but now pharmaceutical giant Sanofi - Aventis has licensed the technology to use S. cerevisiae for mass production.

If it does, he expects to drive down the cost of artemisinin production from a dollar per gram to just 10 cents.

The project is funded up to $ 4 million by the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive down solar energy production costs and pave the way to widespread use of concentrating solar power and photovoltaics.

In fact modern techniques have driven down the cost of sugar production.

To help keep the movie cost down, Sean Connery used his own car and drove himself during the production.

In order to stay relevant and save production costs, eLearning must be needs - driven.

The Cadillac CUE panel is on a motorized faceplate that is going to malfunction on somebody's car (it did on an early production sample I drove) and will probably cost $ 1,000 - plus if it's an out - of - repair warranty.

Available in any colour you liked as long as it was Glacier White and limited to a production run of 333 cars, all in left - hand drive (19 found homes in the UK), it cost a mildly terrifying # 41,035.

This was to make converting to right - hand - drive easier and to cut down on production costs.

The new Kappa 1.6 - liter GDI engine is designed to boost power, performance and fuel economy, while driving down production costs and CO2 emissions in the growing mid-class hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and plug - in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) segments.

Production commenced at TKAP (India) of the 5 - speed manual transmission (MT) C550 for front - wheel - drive vehicles, a low - cost MT for vehicles in BRICSs countries

The new front - wheel - drive platform gives BMW the ability to offer more space in the upcoming X1, and reduce production cost.

TMC's aim is to bring that «driving seasoning» and the joy of automobiles to a wider range of customers by reducing production costs through partial inline customization5 and other measures.

The about - face, which makes a mockery of some of the German carmaker's earlier advertising campaigns, has been driven by the need to reduce production costs, as well as provide competitive packaging for a new generation of small cars.

GM considered mid-engine and rear engine layouts for this model year, but stuck with the front - engine, rear - wheel drive version so production costs would not be too high.

Their high power density and low cost (in large scale production) make them perfect for PHEVs (with the idea being that the majority of driving will be done on battery power).

The new Kappa 1.6 - liter GDI engine is designed to boost power, performance and fuel economy, while driving down production costs and CO2 emissions...

All of the technologies are cost - effective, close to volume production and, when integrated into an all - wheel drive (AWD) vehicle, offer a potential combined fuel consumption savings of up to 15 %.