Sentences with phrase «of bigger automakers»

Mr. Brauer said the partnership between Volvo and Uber, which plan to invest $ 300 million in their self - driving car effort, was part of a growing trend of big automakers joining forces with technology firms.

Toyota is a full - line Japanese automaker started in 1933 and now counted as one of the biggest automakers in the world.

That much is known as some of the biggest automakers in the world will be in attendance, ready to showcase its new wares to the entire industry.

The Vision Gran Turismo project has provided quite the list of poster - worthy concept vehicles from some of the biggest automakers in the world.

Not exact matches

And it's not just because Tesla, the buzzy automaker, has given the so - called grid battery industry a big boost in visibility by introducing its own line of industrial - sized batteries.

During hearings on the near collapse of the U.S. auto - industry in the aftermath of the 2008 credit crisis, the Big Three automaker CEOs appeared before a congressional committee to account for themselves.

«It fit a need for our personal business here, which is great, but it also fit a product and service need that we saw businesses having,» he says, adding that the new offering helped M2 sign three large clients, including an international consumer products company and one of the «Big Three automakers.»

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

So, for instance, if you work for one of the Big Three automakers and want to know what speculation is happening around the Apple car, Quid can scour the internet for information on this query and then compile and organize that data into a visual map so that you can see what trends and themes are coming up most often in the media.

The world's biggest automaker has said it is considering the sale of some of its non-core businesses.

Tesla builds millions of all - electric cars that finally start the process of displacing the internal - combustion engine from its century of dominance (a big part of this is the validation of a mass electric - car market, to induce major automakers to commit to the change).

Ghosn, who born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, and educated in France, heads up the alliance of these three big automakers that are based in Japan and France, and conduct business in 200 countries.

While Uber has invested heavily in autonomous - car technology, and CEO Travis Kalanick has said that's where the company's future lies, the battlefield is arrayed for a clash with big automakers like Ford, Tesla, and Mercedes, which are developing both self - driving technology and car - sharing software of their own.

But because of automated assembly lines, automakers and other manufacturers aren't the big employers they used to be.

The better - than - expected number was led by a beat from each of the «Big 3» automakers — Ford, GM, and Chrysler.

Under Mulally's «One Ford» strategy, the company was the only one of the big three U.S. automakers to sidestep bankruptcy and not take any money from the government's massive TARP bailout program.

Edsel Ford II said the automaker's board of directors «has been briefed» on plans to purchase the long - vacant Michigan Central Station as part of a «big redevelopment» near downtown Detroit.

POLLUTION CONTROLS - The biggest challenge for automakers is controlling emissions of nitrogen oxides, or NOX.

The investment, part of a $ 1 billion financing round for Lyft, is the biggest move by an automaker to date when it comes to grappling with the meteoric rise of the ride - hailing industry.

Foreign automakers complied as the necessary price to access to China's populous market, which passed the United States in 2009 as the world's biggest by number of vehicles sold.

In November of 2014, the Morgan Stanley sell - side research team that focuses on the auto industry, headed by Adam Jonas, made a trip to Detroit to visit the big three automakers.

But the world's biggest automaker said the car never had appeal beyond a core group of technology enthusiasts and environmentalists.

Among the biggest losers from the news were automakers, which account for a little more than a quarter of steel demand in the U.S., according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).

The big push they want to do here is pushing the Model 3 forward and really getting it to market, because we're starting to see some of the larger Detroit automakers like General Motors come out with the Chevy Volt, and they're going to make a big push on that.

For more than a brief moment during the Great Recession, it appeared the fate of the Big Three automakers was in jeopardy.

DETROIT Major automakers on Tuesday reported higher new vehicles sales for March on the back of a strong U.S. economy and big consumer discounts, sending shares in Detroit's automakers up.

On Jan. 3, Trump threatened to impose a «big border tax» on GM for making some of its Chevrolet Cruze compacts in Mexico - and he has extended that threat to German automakers like BMW AG (BMWG.DE) and Toyota Motor Corp (7203.

VW The world's biggest automaker is taking a fresh look at a big piece of its marketing.

Though a wide variety of dried fruits exist — nearly as many as the number of popular fresh fruits — this industry has its own version of automakers» Big Three — raisins, prunes and cranberries.

The automaker introduces its Electric Networked Vehicle prototypes, one third the size of a typical car, as a way to reduce big urban auto emissions and traffic congestion

Call for stability Ford was the only U.S. automaker of Detroit's Big Three to reject bailout funds from Congress.

Automakers both big and small delivered last week at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit with the launch of several electrified products on larger platforms.

Another factor helping automakers is that federal standards apply differently to different sizes of passenger vehicles — bigger vehicles comply with weaker standards compared to smaller vehicles in any given year.

Of course, there are bigger reasons why automakers have gone further than the government has asked.

While we bail out the Big Three U.S. automakers, no one's coming to the rescue of our financially strapped public schools.

The 2015 Mini Cooper may still be small, but it will be offered with the sorts of driver assist systems usually found in bigger luxury vehicles, the automaker revealed today in a release.

The lesson is that if you're a big, mainstream automaker covering a wide variety of price ranges, build your highly profitable models, premium / luxury and trucks and SUVs of mostly any stripe, at home, where costs are probably higher.

The Volkswagen Group has beaten Toyota to become the world's biggest automaker for the first half of 2015.

«Rushing to roll out the next big thing, automakers have left cars unlocked to hackers and data - trackers,» said Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who proposed the legislation with fellow Democrat Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts.

Ford posted the biggest sales drop in the first half of any of the top10 automakers, with a decline of 30 percent to 2.14 million units, just behind Hyundai - Kia's 2.15 million units.

The total number of big SUV sales will never be as high as it was during the SUV binge of the 1990s, but these vehicles represent too much potential profit for automakers to abandon the segment.

Citing data from an internal analysis, Elkann says big savings could be achieved by partnering with one of the «Big Guys,» which could mean General Motors, Toyota, or another large automakbig savings could be achieved by partnering with one of the «Big Guys,» which could mean General Motors, Toyota, or another large automakBig Guys,» which could mean General Motors, Toyota, or another large automaker.

The automaker, however, is in need of new markets to sell its vehicles because its biggest source of income and sales, Russia, is experiencing an economic collapse.

Though it sells more cars than GM and is trying to catch the world's No. 1 automaker, Toyota, VW is in a worse position than General Motors to sign some sort of deal (bigger than a platform - sharing program at least) with FCA.

It's kind of hard to believe that the biggest American automaker no longer builds a minivan and hasn't for years now.

After the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards became law in the late 1970s, automakers often restricted supply of big engines and big vehicles when they weren't selling enough fuel - efficient models.

Question is, are the Big Easy and the nation's biggest automaker really back in the swing of things?

Automakers are slowly beginning to roll out vehicle - to - vehicle (V2V) communications systems, which could potentially become a big part of the suite of safety technologies for semi - and fully automated driving.

Kazunori Yamauchi may have been challenged to make the sixth installment of his Gran Turismo video game seriously bigger and better than ever, but in doing so, he in turn challenged 22 automakers to create futuristic sports cars for use in the new Gran Turismo 6.

Doubling that to the original goal of 10,000 per week is not quite such a big step, because the automaker can make the robots «go real, real fast.»