Sentences with phrase «first car company»

Today, Hyundai becomes the first car company to launch Android Auto on production vehicles.

They are becoming the first car company to offer full 4G LTE WiFi in their cars, trucks, and crossover vehicles!

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

Little known fact: Suzuki was one of, if not the, first car companies to make a compact SUV, better known these days as crossover.

Not exact matches

The company still faces the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered issues with the switch in 2001.

In 1997, when the first Toyota Prius went on sale in Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric cars would affect his company.

When Chase first started Zipcar, the popular service which allows consumers to rent cars by the hour or the day, she says she was criticized for not making the company non-profit.

On Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history as the first company to win Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known as CAR - T.

It's hard to predict who will be the first winner in driverless cars, the barely - past - imaginary industry that companies from Google to Ford are sprinting toward like predators.

The company filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, putting itself in prime position to become the country's first mainstream electric car company.

Avis Budget tumbled 7 percent after the rental car company missed first - quarter performance expectations.

Or rather he was not - driving more safely, while demonstrating the handiwork of his company, Cruise Automation, which in early 2015 will become the first company to sell technology that enables cars to drive themselves.

There's also the matter of Tesla's balance sheet, which has been looking morbid ahead of the car company's first - quarter earnings report, which is expected in a few weeks.

Also imminent from Ford is the 2011 Fiesta, which will be the first car on the market to deliver voice - controlled smartphone apps via AppLink, a downloadable software for the company's already popular FordSync technology.

CEO Mark Fields has responded by saying that the company isn't focused on being the first to market, but instead want to bring the technology to mainstream car buyers.

Dyson, the company famous for see - through vacuum cleaners and inscrutable public bathroom hand - dryers, says it is plunging into the electric car business, releasing its first model in 2020.

Rules for cars were scheduled to play a prominent role over the past week, but the top U.S. negotiator on the issue was hurriedly summoned back to Washington on the first day of the talks to meet with representatives from American auto companies.

The company had been striving to make 2,500 cars per week by the end of the first quarter, but came in at just over 2,000.

Tesla, the one Silicon Valley company that's managed to actually make a car, has been late to deliver every new model it has released since the launch of its very first vehicle (the Roadster, thrice delayed) in 2008.

His company, Tesla Motors, is the first American car company to go public in 54 years.

The U.S. pioneer in luxury electric cars charged by batteries was one of the first companies to offer steering that could be operated hands - free, one of the first steps to full self - driving that industry experts say may be available by 2020.

The company had to first create an exciting electric car that would change the impressions that EVs were glorified golf carts.

The company's cars will target the mass market in contrast to Tesla's current cars and Karma Automotive's planned first cars.

Tesla Motors, the electric car company run by billionaire Elon Musk, said its first - quarter revenue grew by more than 50 %.

My first company was with Warren Avis, who started Avis Rent a Car.

For Google's self - driving cars to operate, the company had to first map the road.

Thanks to nuTonomy and MIT's partnership with Singapore, a country with dense urban areas has been highly receptive to driverless car technology, the comparatively small company could become the first to operate fully self - driving cars, known as «level four,» in a city commercially.

The company has admitted hubris for the Model X in trying to fit in too many complex features into the first version of the car.

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.

Companies like General Motors and Toyota were also investing in electric vehicle technology, but Tesla was the first to show that a battery - powered car could be sexy.

Insurance companies Chubb and Metlife joined car rental company Enterprise and the First National Bank of Omaha in ending their relationships with the NRA.

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.

The electric car company had its first profitable quarter in 2013.

The first press conference of the event was for Faraday Future, a company showing off a next - generation concept electric car, and Volkswagen took the stage Tuesday evening to officially kick off CES and show off an electric car of its own, a concept of its all - electric version of its iconic VW bus.

And while Porat bragged about the Google self - driving car project's recent milestone of 2 million miles driven, the company still hasn't brought the cars to market, despite being one of the first companies to embark on the project more than seven years ago.

The race to become the first company with a chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) cancer therapy on the market has entered its final leg, and Kite Pharma now appears to have a big advantage.

And then when we, I think John Markoff wrote a story, discovering that we were testing and driving the vehicles in public, that's when all the car companies realized at the first level that something might happen.

The first patent the company holds for self - driving car technology is for a camera and sensor system to take in information about a vehicle's surroundings and input commands to a computer.

People doubted that when we first came out with the Roadster eight years ago, but given the success of Model S and Model X, the overwhelming interest in Model 3, and the fact that other car companies are finally starting electric vehicle programs of their own, no one should doubt that anymore.

The ride - hailing company's testing methods are now questioned as the accident marks the first ever recorded fatality caused by a car autonomously driven by the new technology.

With 373,000 reservations in hand — many of them received before the car was first revealed — the company is not overly worried that people will defer their purchases to await subsequent versions of the car.

The second generation of its first ever production car released in 2008, the Tesla Roadster, will not only be the company's quickest accelerating car in its fleet, but also the world's quickest on many levels.

A year later, he founded Tesla Motors, a Palo Alto, California - based company that produced the world's first all - electric, zero - emission sports car in 2010, the same year the company sold shares in a public offering.

The first report on Google's privacy practices, prepared by PwC during 2011 and 2012, numbered only 30 pages in length, Hoofnagle wrote, a potential deficiency given the company's sprawling work in everything from search to self - driving cars.

In 2017, the company had said it planned to reach a production rate of 5,000 cars per week for the Model 3, but later revised back that target to the end of the first quarter.

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the Chinese owner of automaker Volvo, recently announced their acquisition of Terrafugia, a company founded by five award - winning MIT graduates that aims to deliver its first flying car, the Transition, to the market in 2019.

Faraday Future's PR team continues to operate in overdrive as the company prepares to debut its first production car at CES 2017 in Las Vegas on...

Many companies point to 2020 or 2021 as an internal goal for creating a commercially viable autonomous car, one that likely would first appear as part of a ride - hailing service.

When Business Insider contacted PETA for clarification regarding the press release, senior corporate liaison Anne Brainard said that the animal rights group is applauding the electric car company for offering its first faux leather option.

The incident is said to be the first death related to a self - driving car, and it happened to a man who Tesla Motors said was a friend to the company and to the entire electric vehicle community.