Sentences with phrase «of building vehicles»

It was the original method of building vehicles, and continues to this day.

The Jeep ® brand has a long and rich history of building vehicles designed to tackle the most difficult off - road terrain....

The nearly 100 - year - old dream of building a vehicle able to fly atop a magnetic cushion has captured the imagination of a U.S. senator and a few graying engineers who predate the pocket calculator.

GM and other automakers are taking incremental steps toward autonomous vehicles instead of attempting Google's approach of building a vehicle that can operate entirely on autopilot.

Not exact matches

Ontario - based OTTO — not to be confused with the startup of the same name Uber acquired in 2016 and then rebranded — builds self - driving vehicles specifically to transport materials inside industrial warehouses.

Ford has repeatedly said no U.S. jobs will be lost because of the move — and it will produce two new vehicles at a Detroit area plant that built the small cars.

The GM partnership, which was announced in January, was stated to be primarily to «build a network of on - demand autonomous vehicles.»

Some of our customers are conservative and they want to see BFR fly several times before they're comfortable launching in it, so what we plan to do is to build ahead, and have a stock of Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles, so that customers can be comfortable if they want to use the old rocket, the old spacecraft, they can do that, we'll have a bunch in stock.

With the rise of electric - powered vehicles and Tesla's announcement that it's building a 5 million - square - foot factory in Nevada, the lithium used in the production of batteries might seem like a good investment.

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

Terranova gives the example of car manufacturers that need to marry proprietary engineering data with customer feedback in order to build accurate predictive models for vehicle maintenance problems.

It's already happening in some high - end cars, but what's more surprising is that there's a general feeling among involved parties that the majority of vehicles will have built - in modems by 2017, he said.

«We're stressing a systems - based approach,» said Farley, based on building an open - source operating system for transportation available to all companies and also a network of services that stresses Ford's industrial - grade vehicles.

The company, which builds everything from weapons systems and munitions to ships and combat vehicles, has seen its combat segment sales fall 40 % since 2009 — a direct result of the U.S. withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, says Nicholas Stark, an investment analyst with American Century Investments.

The $ 350 million project includes eight separate buildings around a trio of quads, a 600 - seat lecture hall, dining facilities, underground parking for 900 vehicles, and dedicated space for academic centers and career services.

Musk, 46, has built up a showman's reputation as the founder and chief executive officer of Tesla (tsla), calling on true believers to help him overcome the «haters» who question his company's ability to usher in an electric - vehicle age on an ambitious timetable.

Flush with cash withdrawn from the equity in their homes and other borrowed money, Canadian consumers have gone on a spending spree with gains spread across a wide variety of retail sectors, including vehicles, building materials, home furnishings, clothing and food.

In 2015, South Korean news agency DailyNK reported that a customized bathroom is built into one of the cars of Kim's convoy of armored vehicles.

With a robust rocket - building supply chain, Orbital's newly announced OmegA rocket bulks up its existing quiver of launch vehicles, which includes the light - to - medium lift class Pegasus, Minotaur and Antares rockets.

And he is racing to make sure some of those vehicles will be built by his giant automotive group.

The Pegasus platform builds on top of Nvidia's existing Drive PX computing systems that are already used in many self - driving vehicle tests around the world.

NASA has a long history of launching them, and Virgin Galactic — Richard Branson's aerospace company — is now building and testing a suborbital vehicle called SpaceShipTwo.

Steyn said the program aims to build infrastructure that is a critical and important step to its plan to jointly develop and integrate an on - demand network of autonomous vehicles.

Google (GOOG) has already built a prototype of the next generation vehicle that is rounded and compact like a Mercedes - Benz Smart car with a device on the roof that looks like a fast - spinning mini-radar.

Automakers are acutely aware of the liability issues surrounding connected vehicles and are working to build security into their systems.

The voluntary recall is specific to Model S cars that were built before April 2016, but the problem has so far affected only 0.02 % of the Model S vehicles in the US that fall under the recall's guidelines, according to the automaker.

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.

If a key component goes out, chances are it was used in most of the vehicles Tesla built during a given period.

So optimistic is Udacity about the future of self - driving cars, that the online learning platform recently launched a contest offering $ 100,000 to anyone who can build the world's first open - source autonomous vehicle.

Being engineered as among the most survivable and heavily armored vehicles in existence, the Abrams tank is built to withstand a high degree of enemy fire, such some enemy tank rounds, RPGs, rockets and missiles.

When we take out the areas of motor vehicles, furniture, building materials, gasoline stations, convenience stores and beer, wine and liquor stores, about one in every 10 retail dollars are spent at Walmart.

Ford Motor's premium Lincoln brand plans to build as many as five new vehicles in China by 2022, according to two U.S. sources, in a move to expand sales that would also blunt the impact of the U.S - China trade spat.

Be absolutely sure of what it is you're buying, from equipment, machines, vehicles and buildings to receivables and inventory, patents and other intellectual property.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsystems.

In fact, Tesla actually made all of its technology open source in 2014, so that other car companies can use its tech to build their own electric vehicles.

But if they did, there are a few extra safety measures built into the vehicle like a flexible windshield and a front end made of a foam - like material.

A guarantee to build a higher share of environmentally friendly vehicles earned support from 11 % of the respondents, while 9 % said none of the above.

Last month, the company announced the design of the world's first «co-created» military vehicle, which is being built for combat reconnaissance and combat delivery and evacuation.

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.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

«By committing significant financial resources to these offsets, we're building into our business a strong incentive to pursue shared rides and the displacement of gasoline - powered vehicles,» Zimmer and Green wrote.

Canadians were introduced to the LJ, a Japanese - built Jeep - like four - wheel - drive vehicle, in the fall of 1980.

Short of building entire cars, there is money to be made from the software to run a self - driving vehicle, as well as the services associated with autonomous driving, such as mapping, car - sharing and car recharging services, the auto source said.

The niche carmaker, which two years ago vowed to build 500,000 vehicles annually in 2018, has attracted legions of fans for its advanced technology and design.

Airbus has previously claimed the so - called «Vahana» project will build and test an autonomous flying vehicle by the end of 2017.

Tesla now says that it will hit 2,500 Model 3 vehicles per week by the end of the first quarter and will build 5,000 per week by the end of the second quarter.

In October, the company announced it could only build 260 of its vehicles in the third quarter, instead of the 1,500 it planned to make.

You need to buy supplies, pay for equipment, lease a building or a fleet of vehicles, and perhaps hire employees or a sales staff.

In 2012, Chinese sales of crossover utility vehicles — SUVs built on a car platform — increased by 18 % and could represent a quarter of all car sales in China by 2020.

He added that very few companies in Ontario are currently building automated vehicles, but as the amount of technology that goes into a vehicle grows, innovative Canadians businesses will have a chance to capitalize.