Sentences with phrase «many passenger cars»

Tesla's planned truck will feature Enhanced Autopilot, the company's newest semi-autonomous driving technology that is used in its passenger cars.

The automaker «will shift toward a lower volume passenger car lineup in North America and Europe, while competing in more profitable sub-segments of the utilities market, as demonstrated by vehicles such as the new Edge ST and the upcoming Bronco,» Ford said in a statement.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne, who is retiring in 2019, got there first: he saw that passenger cars weren't selling in the US, so he shifted the carmaker's production to more profitable, more in - demand pickup trucks and SUVs.

Having seen the interior of the new X-Class, it's one that's definitely geared more toward surviving wear and tear than the cosseting leather - lined cocoons we are used to seeing in Mercedes» passenger cars.

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

Disrupting Passenger car market, urban transportation market and professional car service industry.

Ford's plan to reduce its passenger car lineup to just two models, and GM's difficulty selling passenger cars in the U.S. show how much tastes are drifting toward trucks, SUVs and crossovers.

Ultimately, the self - driving system could be integrated across VW Group's many brands, including Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, Bentley, Skoda, and Porsche.

Ford will only update the Focus Active crossover and Mustang for the U.S. market, while GM called out a challenging passenger car environment.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

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.

And although passenger cars are under sales pressure from crossover SUVs and shifts in customer preferences, BMW has been making the 5 since the early 1970s.

Automakers realized they could increase their profit margins by driving consumers to trucks, which then as now were subject to less stringent requirements than passenger cars.

Later came the diminutive Forsa passenger car and the controversial Samurai, tarred by allegations from Consumer Reports that it demonstrated an unacceptable tendency to tip over.

The market is also leaning in that direction; SUV demand is booming while passenger car sales fall.

But gas prices aside, even if I were in the market for a passenger car, the Clarity's trunk space is more limiting that most.

TOYOTA has topped the quarterly sales figures for passenger cars in Western Australian for the first time, according to industry statistician VFACTS.

Whilst the days of double - digit annual growth are behind us (we're expecting around 4 percent growth in passenger car sales in 2018), there are pockets of the sector that are poised to grow around 15 percent annually in the coming years.

Since 2009, China has been the largest passenger car market in the world.

If we look just at passenger cars, the rate is closer to 17 per 1,000 people.

The deadline could be set for more than two decades from now, at least according to a manager from China's biggest passenger car exporter, Chery Automobile Co..

'' «Yet in 2011 export growth for passenger cars was two times that of oil, while gold was three times that of oil.

DETROIT — Don't write the passenger car's obituary yet.

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More than 21.1 million passenger cars were sold in the country last year, a 7.3 percent increase from 2014.

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Make it easier for Canadians to choose electric by requiring auto manufacturers to ensure that a minimum and growing percentage of all passenger cars sold in Canada will be zero - emissions vehicles — an approach pioneered in California and recently adopted in Quebec.

«Overall, the Semi is more responsive, covers more miles than a diesel truck in the same amount of time, and more safely integrates with passenger car traffic,» says Tesla in its official announcement.

Last week Ford announced that it would wind down U.S. production / sales of passenger cars — excepting its Mustang and the sort - of - sedan Focus Active — in favor of more popular and profitable trucks, SUVs and crossovers.

Autonomous driving goes beyond passenger cars.

Imports from the U.S. rose 3.1 per cent in March due in large part to higher imports of passenger cars and light trucks, while exports to the U.S. rose 1.2 per cent, led primarily by higher exports of crude oil.

They both clarified that they are talking about passenger cars with relatively small battery packs — right now capped at around 100 kWh.

Despite the industry decline in overall passenger car sales, the Accord remains critical to Honda's lineup.

About 2 million passenger car sales have shifted to crossovers, SUVs and pickups in recent years, Toyota North America sales and marketing chief Bill Fay said.

But many of industry's passenger cars have wilted as declining gasoline prices and preferences for roomier rides took a toll.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Wednesday announced the U.S. DOT is seeking public input on policies to hasten the deployment of self - driving trucks, buses and passenger cars, including vehicles that require no human input to operate.

Look at the Ford motor company, they just announced that they are eliminating passenger cars and instead concentrating on the crossover, truck and SUV market because that is what people want to buy.

As of September 2015, there are over 30 models of highway legal all - electric passenger cars and utility vans available for retail sales, mainly in the United States, China, Japan, Western European countries.

For years, U.S. consumers have been shifting away from traditional passenger cars in favor of larger and more comfortable pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers.

The No. 2 U.S. automaker said sales of its popular pickup trucks were up 0.9 percent, but SUV and passenger car sales were down 4.6 percent and 15 percent respectively.

The Toyota Camry, Nissan Altima and Honda Accord passenger cars are still standing despite a big shift in sales to SUVs.

Last month, market research firm Counterpoint Insights forecast that the global connected car market would grow 270 % by 2022, with more than 125 million connected passenger cars to be shipped between 2018 and 2022.

A symbolic image that comes readily to mind is that of the single passenger car on a six lane freeway that required the demolition and uprooting of thousands of homes and households, styles of human relations, cultural patterns, and the destruction of the non-human natural environment.

The innovative hybrid between a truck and a passenger car has its roots back in World War II, and it is often considered the forerunner of modern sport utility vehicles.

The UK could cut the carbon emissions from passenger cars in half if the population went meat - free or vegan, according to a new report from Lancaster University.

According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Over the years many aerodynamic tests have been carried out in our wind tunnel for passenger cars, for Formula 1, for motorcycling and for the sports equipment of world - class athletes,»

So decrees Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame, who is building steam race cars — honest — for Indianapolis to glamorize steam passenger cars to be and also is carving out an Indy test track (above) in Nevada