We'll learn more about this upcoming model when it hits the road as a 2017
model year vehicle in just a few months.
IIHS evaluated seven 2018
model year vehicles in its passenger - side small overlap crash test, five of which garnered good ratings, including the BMW X1, Mitsubishi Outlander, Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Jeep Compass.
The recall is aimed at 2009 - 2016
model year vehicles in cold - weather areas, with 187,436 of the midsize crossovers sold in Canada and 10,944 in the U.S..
The company issued a technical service bulletin in 2008 and conducted a safety campaign for a small population of 2005
model year vehicles in January 2009.
The 2015 study tracks 2012
model year vehicles in the third year of ownership.
Not exact matches
«For electric
vehicles in China, we have a new technology
model every two
years,» says Dong Yang, a high - ranking Communist Party official at the China Association of Automotive Manufacturers, the auto lobby.
In answering questions from Gali Russell, Musk also revealed that
Model Y production is not expected to begin for another two
years, and that the
vehicle won't be produced at Tesla's main, Fremont, Calif. factory.
The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established
in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for
model year 2012 - 2025
vehicles.
After
years producing premium electric
vehicles in smaller volumes, it is struggling to ramp up the production of its
Model 3 sedans.
Shattered sunroofs have been reported
in at least 208
models of
vehicles representing 35 brands over the last 20 - plus
years in the U.S., based on CR's analysis of the consumer complaints database maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on
vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia
models from the 2011 to 2013
model years.
No date for the arrival of the
vehicle has been set, but Engadget has previously reported that pre-production
models would be sold
in limited numbers later this
year, with full production coming online
in 2017.
Musk revisited the speech
in March of this
year, when he unveiled Tesla's forthcoming
Model 3 mass - market
vehicle in Los Angeles.
GM has abandoned several money - losing markets over the past three
years as part of a broader strategy to boost profit margins and conserve capital to fund electric and automated
vehicles as well as new
models for core markets
in China, the U.S. and Latin America.
A faster ramp - up of the battery plant would be crucial as Tesla has said it would respond to brisk demand for the
Model 3 by tooling up its factories to build 500,000
vehicles a
year in 2018, two
years earlier than planned.
Those are the kinds of tricks buyers can expect to see more of this
year, particularly
in segments like pickups, where older
vehicles like the F - Series are competing with newer
models from GM and Chrysler.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt said standards on
model year 2022 to 2025
vehicles should be revised, reversing a decision on tighter standards put
in place by the Obama administration
in January 2017.
People doubted that when we first came out with the Roadster eight
years ago, but given the success of
Model S and
Model X, the overwhelming interest
in Model 3, and the fact that other car companies are finally starting electric
vehicle programs of their own, no one should doubt that anymore.
The EPA recently said that standards on
vehicles model years 2022 to 2025 should be revised, reversing the move by the Obama administration to put tighter standards
in place.
The company has spent most of the past
year working toward this blockbuster quarter, while making heavy investments
in its manufacturing processes
in preparation of the launch of the
Model 3 electric
vehicle, which is expected to roll out by the end of next
year.
The importance of understanding how drivers interact with autonomous or semiautonomous
vehicles was underscored
year ago when a Tesla owner was killed while driving his 2015
Model S
in Florida with the car's Autopilot system engaged.
Toward that goal, Tesla Motors said that it has made substantial reductions
in the required costs to launch the production of the
Model 3 next
year, with Musk telling analysts that the current plan will not require the company to raise extra capital for the upcoming high - volume electric
vehicle.
The company is going to need money to eventually build its first factory
in China and to develop new
vehicles, including a semi truck and the
Model Y crossover, which it now expects will arrive
in early 2020 instead of late next
year.
Tesla is also coming out with its
Model X sport - utility
vehicle later this
year and a more affordable
Model 3 sedan
in 2017, with an expected starting price of $ 35,000.
The only other Tesla
Model S - related fatality took place
in May, when Joshua Brown, a 40 -
year - old entrepreneur, crashed his
vehicle on a tractor trailer crossing the road
in Florida.
The company had originally set out to deliver between 80,000 to 90,000
vehicles this
year but later reduced its guidance to 79,000 after experiencing less than expected deliveries
in the past quarter as a result of
Model X production delays.
With Tesla aiming to produce 500k
vehicles in two
years time and 1 million by 2020, the company has said it will double the number of Superchargers and quadruple the number of destination chargers
in anticipation of its mass - market
Model 3.
Didi dominates the Chinese market — thanks
in no small amount to its acquisition of second - placed Uber China — but this
year it has expanded to Brazil via an acquisition and Taiwan via a franchise
model, and also moved into bike - sharing and
vehicle rentals.
Tesla has over 400,000
Model 3 reservation holders who each placed a $ 1,000 deposit to get a place
in line when the
vehicle enters production later this
year.
The breaks have been used
in the past for maintenance, renovations, tooling changes and preparations for new
model -
year vehicles.
The stock rallied over 6.5 % the week following the announcement, with the proceeds earmarked for
Model 3 production with deliveries by the end of 2017 and bringing forward Tesla's 500,000
vehicle unit build plan 2
years from 2020 to 2018 (as
in next
year, 2018).
Since Tesla didn't start delivering
Model 3 until the second half of 2017,
Model 3 accounted for all of Tesla's
year - over-
year growth
in vehicle deliveries.
«
In our view, the 2017 half - year results reflected the fact the company is very much in strategy reset mode as it moves from a geographic based business model to an industry vehicle model,» Mr O'Shea sai
In our view, the 2017 half -
year results reflected the fact the company is very much
in strategy reset mode as it moves from a geographic based business model to an industry vehicle model,» Mr O'Shea sai
in strategy reset mode as it moves from a geographic based business
model to an industry
vehicle model,» Mr O'Shea said.
Toyota, Japan's No. 1 auto company, which makes the Prius hybrid, Camry sedan and Lexus luxury
models, had planned to sell 1 million
vehicles in China this calendar
year.
«Out of 84
model -
year 2016 and 2017
vehicles tested
in our Car Seat Checks, only six have made the Cars.com Car Seat Honor Roll,» said Jennifer Newman, Cars.com managing editor of news.
AG Eric Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general
in suing the EPA to preserve the greenhouse gas emission standards currently
in place for
model year 2022 - 2025
vehicles.
Since late last
year, NASA engineers have been sticking
models of these
vehicles in Mach - 10 wind tunnels, and even firing them out of large guns, to identify possible flight instabilities.
The electric carmaker began delivering its
Model S sedans
in 2012, the same
year it announced plans for the
Model X, a sport - utility
vehicle with a crossover - style frame.
Compressed natural gas (CNG) passenger
vehicles were granted incentives
in EPA's greenhouse gas rule for
model years 2017 - 2025 on the basis that they would help pave the way for the commercialization of FCEVs.
The other study examined voice - dialing, voice - contact calling and music selection using
in -
vehicle information or «infotainment» systems
in 10
model -
year 2015
vehicles.
Tesla launched its luxury
Model S
in China earlier this
year, Daimler and Chinese carmaker BYD Co Ltd will start selling the Denza electric car this
year and Volkswagen plans to sell more than 15 green
vehicle models in China by 2018.
A glide path would mirror the European
model, which brought players together
years ago to effectively select «clean diesel» as the
vehicle of the near future, at least until hydrogen - powered or electric plug -
in vehicles develop.
The average fuel economy of
vehicles sold
in the United States hit a record high 23.6 miles per gallon (mpg) for the
model year 2012, the U.S.
Volkswagen AG plans 15 new - energy
models over 3 - 5
years, its China chief told a green car conference
in Beijing on Saturday, predicting - like the government - that Chinese production of electric and plug -
in hybrid
vehicles would grow almost six times to 2 million annually by 2020.
It doesn't share its figures on them (though starting with
model year 2011
vehicles, the EPA began including SUVs and vans — but not trucks — above the 8,500 pound limit
in its passenger
vehicle category).
The second part of that promise was put
in doubt by the fatal crash of a
Model S earlier this
year, when its Autopilot system failed to recognize a tractor - trailer turning
in front of the
vehicle.
More than 60
models to choose from More than 40 hybrid
vehicle models are available
in the United States, and more than 20 PEVs will be available
in the next two
years, prompted by policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
About two dozen battery and plug -
in electric
vehicle models, by Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., Volkswagen AG and other major manufacturers, were sold on the U.S. market last
year.
General Motors (GM) is recalling certain
model year 2007 Chevrolet Equinox and Pontiac Torrent
vehicles originally sold or currently registered
in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas;
model year 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G5, and Saturn ION
vehicles originally sold, or currently registered
in, Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, or Texas;
model year 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5
vehicles originally sold, or currently registered
in, Arizona; and
model year 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5
vehicles originally sold, or currently registered
in, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oklahoma, or Texas.
Beginning early next
year, the Accord PHEV (plug -
in hybrid electric
vehicle) will go on sale as a 2014
model.