Sentences with phrase «fast for a production vehicle»

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How fast it goes: There is no powertrain for the vehicle and it is not likely to go into production.

Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

Tesla and scores of others from traditional automakers to technology firms are all competing for a slice of China's fast - growing new - energy vehicle market as the country looks to impose tough new tariffs to encourage production of «green» cars.

7) «The period is marked by technological advances in pottery production, including the introduction and dominant utilization of the fast wheel and the appearance of efficient, tow - tiered pottery kilns; metallurgy with deliberate alloying and evidence for local production in the form of copper smelting furnaces on the outskirts of Khapuz - depe; stone working; and a development of wheeled vehicles drawn by Bactrian camels and possible bulls as indicated by terra - cotta models.»

This roots the conception of the later famed 6.9 - variant of the M100 for the 450SEL 6.9 (what was once the world's fastest production vehicle at the time).

Stefan Bellof did indeed drive a Porsche 956 to the fastest ever lap of 6:11:13 for a motorised vehicle in 1983... but it was for qualifying for the 1000 km Sports Car race, so technically it was never a production car... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockets.

Electric supercar walked away with the overall fastest production car time, plus a lap record for driverless vehicles

While the current land speed record for a non-production fuel - cell vehicle stands at 286 mph, and the record for a production - style hydrogen vehicle is 207 mph, the Tucson is the fastest mass - produced vehicle.

The automaker has taken its high - performance model, the Stelvio Quadrofoglio powered by a 505 - horsepower twin - turbocharged V6, and challenged the Nurburgring, where it ran the 12.9 - mile Nordschleife circuit in just under eight minutes, faster than any other production SUV and a respectable time for any production vehicle.

This is the fastest time ever reached and officially measured for this driving manoeuvre for a production vehicle throughout the world.

Even though this record has been surpassed by an American supercar called the Hennessey Venom, the Veyron still holds the official world's record for fastest production automobile due to differing opinions regarding the definition of a production vehicle.

The first Land Rover to be manufactured at Halewood 2008 LRX concept car previews design language of a new luxury compact SUV 2009 Fourth generation of the Land Rover Discovery introduced 2010 Range Rover Evoque, the world's first luxury compact SUV, makes global debut 2012 Fourth - generation Range Rover introduced — the first all - aluminium SUV 2013 New generation of Range Rover Sport unveiled at New York Motor Show 2014 Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division is officially launched 2014 Range Rover Sport SVR debuts, the fastest, most agile, most powerful Land Rover 2014 Discovery Vision Concept previews design vision for new family of Discovery vehicles 2014 Launch of Discovery Sport, a new premium compact SUV with 5 +2 seating 2015 Trio of end - of - line Defender editions revealed with biggest sand drawing in UK 2015 Exclusive Range Rover SVAutobiography long wheelbase launched in New York 2015 Evoque Convertible becomes world's first luxury compact SUV convertible 2015 One - of - a-kind Land Rover «Defender 2 000 000» sells for # 400 000 at charity auction 2016 Last Defender rolls off the production line 2016 All - new Discovery with world - first remote Intelligent Seat Fold technology launched 2017 Land Rover launches the fourth Range Rover, the Velar 2018 Limited Edition Range Rover SV Coupé debuts at Geneva Motor Show

Why Electric Vehicles are a Climate Solution (March, 2016) Electric vehicles are entering mass production faster than any other technological fix for our oil habit, and they have a much lower climate impact than oil - powered cars.

Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis.

Last year, the Tesla Model S P90D shot up the 12.4 - mile, 156 - turn Pikes Peak International Hill Climb course in well under 12 minutes and set the record for the fastest «production» electric vehicle on the course.

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