Sentences with phrase «from electric car maker»

The Department of Justice seized $ 21 million from electric car maker Fisker before the company went into bankruptcy after it received a $ 529 million loan guarantee in 2009.

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Musk also is CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors and has made headlines for his vision of a high - speed transportation system that would shoot passengers through elevated tubes from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

One thing hasn't changed as Tesla Inc. has crept from high - priced luxury - car maker toward mass - market manufacturer: Elon Musk's heavy reliance on media buzz to bring attention to his electric cars.

While rumors about a potential merger between the electric car maker and consumer electronics giant have swirled for years, a new Bloomberg report suggests that Tesla has recruited at least 150 employees from Apple — more than any other company, including competing car firms.

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Of course, the electric car maker has already come across these clips, and as a countermeasure of sorts, it toned down the functions of the technology in their vehicles to keep the most adventurous testers safe from harm.

The song was a foreshadowing clue to the electric car makers new «Ludicrous Mode» acceleration upgrade, which came in addition to announcements for a new Model S and plans for a roadster as key highlights from Friday's conference call.

Musk had said in October that Tesla has been «deep in production hell» making the Model 3, its first attempt to cross over from being a niche maker of high - end electric cars to a mass manufacturer or more midpriced vehicles.

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.

Musk told Handelsblatt, a German publication, that the employees whom Apple poached from Tesla are not important to the electric car maker.

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.

Apart from releasing its goal of hitting a market cap of $ 650 billion to become one of the world's most valuable companies, the California - based electric car maker and energy company also confirmed that Elon Musk would continue to lead the company for the next decade.

The bill, introduced by Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle (D - Rochester), would allow the electric car maker to expand to 20 stores from its current roster of five, it said.

But that hasn't stopped car makers from looking for the best design for the next gneration of electric vehicles

Even sports car maker Porsche is getting in on the act: the Mission E is the first all - electric car from Zuffenhausen and you can expect incendiary performance, a choice of different power outputs (think Carrera, Carrera S and - maybe - even Turbo model ladder) and charging times of around 250 miles in just 20 minutes.

The German car - maker has committed to an all - electric version of its X3 by 2020, and both electric and plug - in hybrid models from its MINI brand.

New Jaguar will be the first electric SUV from a premium European car maker when deliveries start in July

Japan's third largest car - maker has taken a current model CR - Z and fitted it with four electric motors — technology inherited directly from the Legend's rear - motor SH - AWD (Super Handling All Wheel Drive) system, but now extending to motors on both the front and rear axles.

As the demand for lithium rises from makers of electric car batteries, smartphones and other sources, Albemarle Corp. continues to acquire... Read More

Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,» the CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc. tweeted shortly after Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the global climate pact.

A joint venture to produce gasoline kei cars made sense for the two makers, and now an electric adaptation of that car — just as the i - MiEV was adapted from the gasoline «i» — seems to be the likely outcome of this announcement.

The rest is just off the shelf parts — steering, electric brakes, air - conditioning, switches, power management, seats, lighting, instruments — sourced from manufacturers as any car maker does today.

What we would like to see from Toyota and other car makers: More affordable very fuel - efficient and low - emission hybrids, plug - in hybrids, all cars flex fuel so that they can run on cellulosic ethanol when it is available (the fuel sensors required for that are apparently only about $ 30 - no reason not to include them in all cars), diesel - hybrids with the latest emission technology (to run on biodiesel where available, of course) and, as soon as battery technology is ready, affordable electric - only vehicles.

With Tesla's first quarterly profit in the company's decade - long history last quarter, Tesla proved to skeptics that it's been able to transition from a niche electric car maker into a more mainstream auto company.

Some of that demand is coming from non-traditional sources including an influx of cannabis businesses as well as a start - up electric car maker.

Both companies were founded on the premise that a startup electric car maker, with backing from Valley venture capitalists, could use a cool car as a launching platform to become a more mainstream auto maker.

New data from the company reveals that the electric car maker has produced nearly 35,000 new vehicles since the beginning of 2018, which is 34 % more...

The electric car maker said the driver, who was killed in the accident, did not have his hands on the steering wheel for six seconds before the crash, despite several warnings from the vehicle.