Sentences with phrase «for global car»

This could result in competing standards being introduced, which would be a big problem for global car manufacturers.

The company's automotive OEM segment has consistently generated growth in excess of industry growth — the segment's organic revenue growth was 9 % in the quarter compared to 6 % for global car build growth — so if China's automotive production growth slows then Illinois Tool Work's automotive OEM growth rate is likely to slow significantly too.

Not exact matches

ANALYSIS: A forecast global surge into electric cars and buyers» growing preference for the state's hard rock lithium ore is putting a rocket into the sector.

After investigating certain car models, South Korean safety officials asked a United Nations body in charge of global transport regulations to look at developing new standards for glass.

Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.

Social responsibility is central to the operations of these companies — they know it's smart business to consider global issues and the broader community, whether it is through offering discounted loans for electric cars (Vancity) or helping to set up organic cotton seed banks in India (Zara).

Brown accused Radu Raduta, a former Google mechanical engineer, and Sameer Kshirsagar, the former global supply manager for self - driving cars, of downloading other confidential material before joining Levandowski at Otto.

According to the terms of the partnership, Lego manufactured Shell - branded gas stations and racing cars in exchange for the oil giant making those products available through its global network.

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.

In fact, Morgan Stanley predicts that driverless cars will save the U.S. $ 1.3 trillion a year by 2035 to 2050, for a global annual saving of $ 5.6 trillion.

«We believe the global addressable market for car sharing is enormous and in the early stages of development,» the company noted in its filing to the SEC.

After selling 20 million cars in 190 countries, the company made the difficult decision to drop the Datsun name (which originated in Japan almost a century ago, and comes from the Japanese word «DAT» for lightning fast) from its U.S. operations to unify its global brand.

Among the many events currently taking place as part of Social Media Week, Tumblr founder David Karp sat down Wednesday with John Bell, Global Manager of Social@Ogilvy, to chat about all things Karp — including his dog Clark, his affinity for car commercials, and best of all, his favorite Tumblr.

Airbus believes the global demand for the «flying cars» will run in to millions of vehicles and that demand will help reduce development costs.

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

He adds global companies that do business in France — car manufacturers such as Nissan, for instance — or those that import products over the border would certainly see an impact to their bottom lines.

One billion global cars multiplied by a $ 6,000 annual cost of ownership results in a $ 6 trillion market for annual car ownership costs.

It accounts for nearly a third of global car sales annually.

«Looking forward, a healthy global economic forecast for 2018, positive car sales data in recent months, stronger 2018 yea - on - year U.S. product consumption in January and potentially tighter global product markets are expected to boost gasoline and distillates demand...,» OPEC said.

In the four weeks that it began shipping cars with an AT&T 4G LTE radio embedded inside, 98 percent of its customers have opted to try out the free trial, which lasts for three months or 3 GB, whichever comes first, according to Mary Chan, president of GM's global connected consumer business.

1) China's emergence as a dominant player in the low - carbon market, 2) global oil majors» shift to renewable energy, 3) big corporate brands moving to 100 % renewable power, 4) the rise of electric vehicles and expiration dates for gas - fuelled cars, and 5) energy getting smarter through digitization.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + email VICTORIA — The global shift to electric cars is well underway, bringing with it big changes for drivers, industries and governments around the world.

That includes more than 7 million GM cars, Vijay Iyer, director of communications for GM Global Connected Customer Experience and Urban Mobility, told CNBC.

«Global demand for electric cars is booming, and Canada has the technical talent to benefit from this shift economically as well as environmentally.

Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

Global X, an exchange traded fund provider known more for its targeted investment themes, has rolled out an autonomous and electric car...

«Your car is arguably one of the most underutilized, polluting, time - consuming and dangerous machines on Earth,» says Adam Jonas, head of global auto research for Morgan Stanley.

«Consider that cars on average are in operation for only about an hour each day, but they account for 45 % of global oil demand and, on average, 3,500 daily deaths worldwide.»

The global shift to electric cars is now well underway and accelerating, bringing with it big changes for drivers, companies, industries and governments around the world.

VICTORIA — The global shift to electric cars is well underway, bringing with it big changes for drivers, industries and governments around the world.

Flying cars, one global currency, and humanoid robot helpers are just a few ideas tech experts have predicted for Canada's future in the next 150 years, and Canadians agree.

The Seattle, US - based e-commerce giant started beta testing these speakers in India in February for a global rollout later in the year, two sources have told FactorDaily, adding the in - car speakers were being tested elsewhere in the world, too.

Global expansion is still in the early innings, the potential for technological breakthroughs is always there (Car, TV, Bueller?)

He said lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.

Automakers and their American consumers will bear the brunt caused by raising prices of two metals essential to the production of cars and trucks in the U.S. «The President's pending decision on tariffs and quotas for steel and aluminum trade highlights several unfortunate ironies,» said John Bozzella, President and CEO of Global Automakers.

The American Car Rental Association, a lobbying group for companies including Enterprise Holdings Inc. and Hertz Global Holdings Inc., is pushing lawmakers to eliminate what it sees as unfair loopholes from taxes that its members have to pay and that car - sharing companies have avoidCar Rental Association, a lobbying group for companies including Enterprise Holdings Inc. and Hertz Global Holdings Inc., is pushing lawmakers to eliminate what it sees as unfair loopholes from taxes that its members have to pay and that car - sharing companies have avoidcar - sharing companies have avoided.

I travel by air and car, speeding up global warming and the exhaustion of resources, in order to attend conferences or give lectures calling for the service of God.

Cars and trucks account for about 14 percent of global carbon emissions, while most analysts attribute upwards of 15 percent to deforestation.

Now if they have to buy American steel, this will make their cars more costly, reducing their competitiveness on the global market and hurting the normal American customer that has to pay more for the car now.

With continual technological advancements in mobile devices and electric cars, the global demand for lithium has quickly outpaced the rate at which it can be mined or recycled, but a University of Texas at Austin professor and his research team may have a solution.

That shiny, white product, which turned out to be the Powerwall, will be a great addition to Tesla, said Tillemann, the author of a «The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future,» due out this year.

It said an 80 percent rise in global energy demand was set to raise carbon dioxide (Co2) emissions by 70 percent by 2050 and transport emissions were expected to double, due in part to a surge in demand for cars in developing nations.

What will next year hold for global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels, the electric car revolution and Trump's coal dream, wonders Owen Gaffney

In the early 1990s, Waters helped develop the battery pack system for General Motors» electric car, the EV1; helped set an EV world speed record at 183 mph; later founded Bright Automotive, a company that invented a 100 - mpg plug - in hybrid electric commercial vehicle; and now heads Waters and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in global sustainable mobility and housing.

«Those in the market for a new car may have been uncertain how the global warming emissions and fuel costs of EVs stack up to gasoline - powered vehicles.

Professor Rakotonirainy said it was vital for car makers, government and road safety experts to turn their attention to this global security threat.

«Thanks to the production of lithium batteries for electric cars, [we] will contribute to fighting global warming for the benefit of the entire Earth.»

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid ServicFor example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Servicfor air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Projects in this year's competition trended toward education and global health, although several teams tackled another pressing problem worldwide — traffic management — with applications for improving bus routes and a social networking tool for organizing car pools, says Jon Perera (pdf), Microsoft's general manager for education.