Sentences with phrase «electric street car»

The city also attracted the first electric street car system in 1886 in addition to the first Wright Brothers flight school in 1910.

We really need to put back the electric street cars (trolly to you non-New Orleanians) and the electric buses from the 40's (look them up, they existed, they worked).

re Troy: «We really need to put back the electric street cars (trolly to you non-New Orleanians) and the electric buses from the 40's (look them up, they existed, they worked).»

Not exact matches

An electric car - skate attached to an elevator would bring cars from street level to the underground tunnel where the skates could achieve speeds of about 130 mph.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Apple had set up a secret lab working on the creation of an Apple - branded electric car, citing people familiar with the matter.

The electric car maker posted revenue of $ 3.41 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts.

China alone put over 100k electric buses on their streets last year, so add that to the half a million electric cars.

On Wednesday, the electric car maker released delivery numbers for the fourth quarter of 2017 that fell short of many expectations on Wall Street, and once again pushed back production targets on its highly anticipated Model 3 sedan.

The controversy surrounds the production of Tesla's Model 3, which is the electric car maker's maiden vehicle designed for the mainstream, and the company's cash burn, the latter of which took Wall Street by surprise.

Antony Currie and Richard Beales talk about Tesla's biggest - ever quarterly loss, the electric - car maker's ambitions, and boss Elon Musk's impatience with Wall Street analysts on the company's earnings call — and what that means for its capital - raising prospects.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's refusal to take questions from analysts about the electric car maker's financial condition drew sharp criticism from Wall Street analysts and investors on Thursday, pushing its stock down further.

Investors continue to hammer Tesla, a day after founder Elon Musk dumbfounded some on Wall Street by cutting off what the billionaire called «boring, bonehead» questions about the electric car maker's finances during a conference call with stock analysts.

By you I mean his customers, Wall Street, his shareholders, his creditors, his employees, and anyone who just might be interested in learning more about electric cars.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) expects to have 1 million of its cars on roads by 2020.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's refusal to take questions from analysts about the electric car maker's financial condition drew sharp criticism from Wall Street analysts and investors on Thursday, pushing its stock down 7 percent.

When the Tesla Model S P100D first dueled the Dodge Demon in a street race, the electric car completely decimated the gas - guzzler...

When you combine twisty, barrier - lined street circuits with single - seater electric race cars that are tricky to drive, you're in for a pretty manic weekend.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The only reason that horse and buggies still work in the most congested city streets in the country is because Christine Quinn, the extraordinarily corrupt head of the NYC Council, has blocked all of the bills that would ban this trade or replace the carriages with electric cars.

A fleet of self - driving cars zooming through underground tunnels is planned, but for now there will just be street - level electric vehicles.

And purely electric cars, like the Tesla Roadster already on the market, will be making more appearances on the streets as greater production brings the costs down.

And, in addition to learning where and when EV owners charge up their cars, Volt manufacturer General Motors is hoping to learn from the folks in the Pecan Street project how a residential fleet of electric vehicles might change the electric grid.

Infrastructure limitations may prevent manufacturers at first from rolling out fuel cell cars on the same wide scale as electric vehicles, but they will be on the streets in increasing numbers by 2015.

A projector was even placed on top of a Tesla to illuminate buildings along the street as the electric car drove by.

«I'm looking forward to seeing a full grid of I - Pace race cars in late 2018, soon after the first I - Pace road car hits the streets in Europe,» said Mäuser, adding, «Ultimately, this innovative series will serve to enhance the technology used in our future electric vehicles and benefit our customers.

The other issue of course is for people in the normal world who don't have drives and garages and hence can't charge their electric cars when parked on the street.

The 205mph record is just the latest electric car record to be set in a matter of weeks, after TV presenter and occasional evo contributor Jonny Smith set a new world quarter - mile record for a street - legal electric car.

However, because the Google car is classified as a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle under California law, it's allowed on any street with a speed limit of up to 35 mph, even though it must legally be limited to 25 mph.

A fleet of 200 electric cars is destined for the streets of London in a bid to exploit a tax loophole.

The black, white, and grey colors combined with the blue - accented wheels suggest Nissan's design team sees the BladeGlider as the next step in street - legal high - performance electric sports cars.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the skeptical environmentalist himself, Bj ¯ rn Lomborg, recently revealed a devastating analysis of the EV's real carbon footprint: «If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles in its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar - size gasoline - powered car driven the same number of miles.»

Among the exotic horde of specialty cars on the local streets that included numerous examples of the Ferrari 458, McLaren MP4 - 12C, and Tesla Model S, the Mirai seemed like a plain old electric vehicle.

«Using the same streets that our Leaf customers also commute on as race tracks has real benefits for customers — we'll be able to take on real road conditions with our race cars — and we can share what we've learned as we tune our latest electric vehicles.»

Copyright lawsuits aside, 250 near - production examples of the electric Quattro have been plying the streets of Geneva ahead of the big auto show there, and DT car guy Ronan Glon cornered an Audi VIP to get some more details.

It's more than 15 years since the first hybrid cars hit the streets, but one of the few automakers that hasn't at least dabbled in the gasoline - electric technology since then is Mazda.

Navigation remains optional, but buyers who pay extra for it are rewarded with an electric - car - specific version of BMW's On - Street Parking Information, a service which helps motorists find parking spots in major American cities.

When Bjorn Lomborg wrote «Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret» for The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, he based his argument — that electric.

In electric mode the car cruises along silently on the surface streets and the off - the - line acceleration is stout.

Out on urban streets, our heavy - footed - driving style engages the gas engine off the line from most stop lights, but it quickly gives way to electric mode after the car builds up its momentum, and glides through the city at speeds ranging from 20 to 40 mph.

The most recent innovation is BMW i Light and Charge — a street light from which the high - voltage battery in an electric car can also be recharged.

But at the time that I was planning to buy my C - Max, word on the street had been that it was going to be available as an electric car, with no gasoline engine component.

It has a Kitchen with benchtop hotplates and grill, microwave, electric frypan, toaster, pots and pans, plates and crockery and all utensils, separate Bathroom, TV and Video, Undercover outdoor area, Outdoor Furnitre, Deep Freezer, Off - street area for Boat, Car, playing.

As they have for decades, electric trams still run up and down Lisbon's twisty streets, with cars dodging in and around them in a chaotic blur.

These street legal electric cars include big wheels and long battery life to go to the beach, enjoy the restaurants and explore the Tamarindo Area

Two queen bed rooms, one with a single day bed, television, cotton linen, doonas, DVD, CD player, internet access, fully equipped kitchen with large pantry, private north facing courtyard, outdoor setting and barbeque, off street parking for two cars, electric blankets, full laundry facilities and late arrival access.

Now, Mims is writing in the Wall Street Journal about The Problem With Electric Cars?

But according to «people familiar with the matter» who the Wall Street Journal spoke with, the team that has been working on an electric car (possibly self - driving) under the codename «Titan» has made enough progress for the company to give the project «committed» status, with a target shipping date of 2019 (which isn't exactly the same thing as a commercialization date in Apple jargon, so the actually launch could be later).

We want places where children can play safely on streets and where we can go grocery shopping by bike and where we can commute to work using sustainable public transportation and shared electric cars.

PARIS, France — Up to 5,000 electric scooters could join the 18,600 Vélib rental bikes and 2,000 Autolib's electric cars on the streets of Paris.

Fox News is promoting a Wall Street Journal column by Bjorn Lomborg to claim that electric vehicles are «even worse» for the environment than conventional gasoline cars.