Sentences with phrase «global fleet»

Even if the entire global fleet of planes is fueled by non food - grade coconut and babassu oil - as one engine was for a much publicized crew - only Virgin flight in 2008 - the industry would have to contract a lot of farmers to grow a lot of babassu on a lot of land that we just might want to keep for food crops.

A Hong - Kong based holding company was the Fund's top performer this quarter, while a Canada - based global fleet management solutions company was the largest detractor.

Oil rig counts are bound to rise now that oil seems to have halted its decline and given the demonstrated slowing decline in the active global fleet.

Speaking to Jaguar Land Rover global fleet director Ken Forbes, Automotive News Europe learned that the midsize premium sedan will be built alongside the Land Rover Evoque and land Rover Discovery Sport at the company's assembly plant in Changshu.

Customers loved it, and the XF contributed nearly 29 percent of Jaguar's total global fleet volume for the first 6 months of the year.

In the mid 19th century the largest components of the uncertainty at annual time scales are the measurement and sampling uncertainty and the coverage uncertainty because there were few observations made by a small global fleet.

As this occurs, GE is in a strong position to help deploy the supporting infrastructure to help its 65,000 global fleet customers convert and manage their fleets.

In addition to delivering advanced fleet driver training (both classroom and in - vehicle), the company also provides a myriad of fleet - related consultancy and research services as well as a web - based Fleet Data Manger platform that allows organizations to record, store, and access local or global fleet data directly and securely online.

Due to ongoing growth Radius Payment Solutions, a leading global fleet management company, are...

A power outage in Atlanta forces Delta to ground its global fleet this morning.

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.

Tisch started sniffing around for tankers in the early 80s, when, according to Tisch, only 30 % of the global fleet was necessary to meet demand.

The mining giant believes that figure could rise to 140 million electric vehicles, or 8 % of the global fleet, by 2035.

Currently, electric cars add up to roughly 1 million, out of a global fleet of closer to 1.1 billion, according to estimates by world number one mining company BHP (ASX, NYSE: BHP)(LON: BLT).

At the same time, the global fleet of vessels grew by about 5 %, increasing competition in a tightening market.

This is especially cumbersome to global fleets, because the EU directive prohibits the transfer of data of European citizens to any third party company, fleet management service providers included.

Electric cars still constitute less than 1 percent of U.S. car sales, and even less of the global fleet that is now approaching two billion vehicles.

VistaJet, with its global fleet of branded Bombardier Global 5000 and Challenger 350 aircraft, takes the idea of the shared economy to the next logical and expensive level.

This is part of GE's plan to move half of its global fleet of 25,000 vehicles to alternate fuel vehicles.

The carmaker has committed that 2 / 3rd of its global fleet will be electrified by 2030 which includes electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell cars.

Derrick Kuzak, Ford's director of global product development, says the automaker is predicting that electric propulsion — conventional hybrids, plug - in hybrids and battery - electric vehicles — will make up anywhere from 10 to 25 % of its global fleet by 2025.

Today Lufthansa announced that it's new premium economy seat is now installed on 50 % of it's global fleet - that's 53 planes including all its Airbus A380s and Boeing 747 - 8s.

Hertz has 8,500 locations in almost 150 destinations and offers a wide range of makes and types in a global fleet of more than 500,000 vehicles.

Many measures are needed, including providing safe alternatives to indoor cooking and heating in low - income countries, but vehicle emissions are a priority: fleets in emerging - economy cities are set to double in the next five to ten years and the global fleet is set to grow from about one billion to three billion vehicles by 2050.

Saildrone, Inc., a provider of high - resolution ocean data collected via a fleet of unmanned surface vehicles, announced today that it has closed a $ 60 million round of Series B funding to scale up its global fleet of ocean drones to help monitor the state of the planet in real time.

For example, at the end of 2015, FedEx had already placed nearly 1,200 electric vehicles in service in its global fleet.

The global fleet of electric vehicles surpassed 2 million cars in 2016, according to a new International Energy Agency report.

The global fleets are sustaining harvests only by moving into untapped resources, said Dr. Daniel Pauly, a marine scientist at the University of British Columbia and co-author of «In a Perfect Ocean,» a detailed analysis showing enormous drops in North Atlantic catches over the last century.

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.

The global fleet of passenger vehicles is set to increase rapidly.

Meanwhile, via The Detroit News, the global fleet also shows it's teeth: - «Shipping interests in the U.S. and Canada have banded together to try to strike down a Michigan law that attempts to stop the spread of invasive species such as zebra mussels into the Great Lakes.

GE will convert at least half of its 30,000 global fleet and will partner with fleet customers to deploy a total of 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015.

Our global fleet of manually driven data collection vehicles continue to operate.