Sentences with phrase «last year of the cars»

Buy the last year of the cars with a stick.

This compares favorably with the last year of car ownership.

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

Western Australia experienced yet another horror month for new car sales, with the prospect of a last - minute turnaround to bring the year on par with 2015's poor result looking very unlikely.

End - of - financial - year bargain hunters provided a boost to new car sales in Western Australia last month, but it wasn't enough to beat last year's June 30 clearance sales.

The small, basic devices with solar panels and simple maneuvering equipment and radios are expected to last two to four years and are capable of taking weekly photos with details as small as a car.

The percentage of households without a car has increased slightly in the last five years, the most recent data from the American Census Bureau shows.

Bhavesh Patel, 39, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after a witness saw him sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the driver's seat empty, as it drove along the famous M1 highway on May 21 of last year.

As of last year, Blackberry was estimating that around 30 million cars on the road used QNX, with 11 million of them sold just in 2012.

This took three years of focused budgeting and willpower, but I'm happy to say that I completely wiped out my student loans, credit card debt and all but the last $ 1,500 of my car loan — which is on track to be paid off in September.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

It's the first car from Fisker Coachbuild, which was co-founded last year by Henrik Fisker, the former head of design at Aston Martin.

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

For starters, the cost of an electric car battery — the most expensive component — dropped 35 % last year alone.

«Although passenger car segments have declined over the last number of years, they are still very important,» GM's Stevens said Thursday.

The move was the apparent result of his involvement in the legal standoff between Uber and Waymo, the self - driving car division spun out of Google last year.

New car sales crashed in Western Australia last month, adding to a year of poor performance in the industry.

In comparison, Tesla shipped closer to 50,000 electric cars last year, most of them in the U.S.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

SUV sales rose more than 30 % in the country last year while passenger cars sales climbed only around 10 %, says China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

China is now the largest SUV market in the world and last year SUV sales rose more than 30 %, while passenger cars sales climbed only around 10 %, according to China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

CNN reported that Chinese consumers bought a quarter of the 2.4 million cars Mercedes - Benz sold last year.

Pashak often compares his A-type to the popular commuter models manufactured by Linus — he considers them a «pace car» — and Bikes on Wheels sold about a 1,000 of those in the last year.

Last year, he told an Austrian magazine that he believes 10 % of new cars will be electric by 2020, and half by 2030 — one of the most bullish forecasts for electric vehicles on record.

German exports amounted to 494,000 cars last year - a fall of a quarter since 2013.

The investment advisory firm analyzed the car - service spending habits of 3.8 million credit card users in the U.S. over the last year.

After all, as Richard Florida reported last year, the Census Bureau finds that 86 percent of U.S. workers still commute by car and more than 75 percent do so alone.

The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber's ability to test self - driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49 - year - old pedestrian.

The most innovative corporate idea from one of the Big Three in the last 30 years was GM's creation of the Saturn brand, which gave the company a bold new design and changed the way cars were sold and how salespeople were compensated.

As part of its ramp - up efforts, Nissan said last year that ProPILOT will allow cars to automatically change lanes by 2018.

It sold out of its production run of 450 cars and the last version of the Veyron rolled off the production line this year.

South Korean carmaker Kia is better known for slightly offbeat, value - oriented cars than for high - performance wheels, but that changed last year with the introduction of the Stinger.

For example, she said, if a new roof lasts 20 to 30 years, living until 90 instead of 80 means budgeting for one new roof at age 60 won't cut it; if they tend to keep cars for 10 years, their retirement might entail an extra purchase.

(I've heard countless horror stories of the latter, especially from the auto industry when I was closely covering the self - driving car startups last year.)

As per the goals Musk laid out last year, the company was supposed to be producing 5,000 cars per week by the end of 2017.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

Waymo, the company spun out of Google's self - driving car technology, on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and Otto, a company Uber acquired last year, of stealing intellectual property.

The company said that it is planning on delivering a little over 12,000 vehicles in the third quarter, which is a 60 percent increase in car deliveries from the third quarter of last year.

The CPM Group anticipates palladium demand to reach an all - time high this year, up 3 percent from last year, on tightened emissions standards and the purchase of larger cars and trucks in the U.S. on lower fuel costs.

Car - pooling was popular in the earliest days of the automobile, but for much of the last 100 years, the numbers have been going in the opposite direction.

Faraday Future, the electric - car startup that has been pegged over the last year as a «potential Tesla killer,» still remains much of a mystery to the public.

Automakers produce about 90 million cars each year, but less than 2 percent of those are electric vehicles, said Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in Hong Kong last week.

The company had announced Project Apollo last year with the aim of helping car - makers manufacture self - driving cars faster.

These policies have boosted sales of electric cars to Chinese consumers to 188,000 last year, easily ahead of the U.S., where 116,000 were sold.

Consider this: Roughly half of all electric cars sold globally last year were in China, which saw a 73 - per - cent increase in EV sales over 2016.

In the U.S., sales of compact cars and small crossovers jumped 40 per cent in March and April from the year before, and now account for nearly one - quarter of all sales, up from less than than 20 per cent last year, according to a report from Scotia Economics.

At the Odessa car dealership the Sewell family has run since 1935, Colin Sewell sold 1,073 trucks in the first three months of this year, up from 670 last year.

Late last year, the mainland proposed automakers should make new energy vehicles account for 8 percent of total car fleets by 2018 despite booming demand for SUVs — first - quarter SUV sales rose 21 percent on - year to 2.4 million, according to data from the Associated Press.