Sentences with phrase «of cars in the world»

Volkswagen's goals were audacious: It aspired to be the biggest seller of cars in the world under Piëch protégé Martin Winterkorn.

Of course, only a tiny handful of cars in the world are Teslas, or will ever be, even assuming the company one day achieves its targeted production rates.

There are two types of cars in this world, convertibles and everything else.

New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost - effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars — more than all of the cars in the world today!

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.

But they also had a physical installation at SXSW, which featured the DeLorean from Back to the Future — the car of choice for character Parzival in the film's virtual - reality world.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

When Maoli left logistics for luxury car sales, he brought Gabriele with him and took over his first dealership, Lexus of Route 10 in Whippany, N.J. And that's when they discovered that the rarefied world of luxury autos also had a lot to learn from the hotel business.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon visits the Beijing Auto Show to see how automakers are gearing up to compete in one of the world's largest car markets.

We will end up playing catch - up with the rest of the world and miss out on the most amazing transition of our lifetimes: into an era in which we become the drivers in driverless cars.

«You simply submerge in a new world with the ease of stepping into your car and driving to the supermarket.»

My fondest memory of taking the family to Disney World is of eavesdropping on an exhausted couple and their glazed - over children in a desolate parking lot, arguing about whether they'd left their car in the Pluto section or the Goofy section.

But the size of the market we're pursuing — data centers, autonomous driving, video games and virtual reality, industrial design — our technology is being used by almost every car company, movie... so almost every data center in the world will be accelerated by GPUs.

In a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stocIn a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stocin stock.

«Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day,» wrote Musk in a 2014 blog post.

«I spent 30 years in the corporate world, most recently as CEO of Purolator, before moving to [car - sharing co-op] Modo this year.

Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world with a Tesla Roadster sports car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.

It came out of nowhere and created the safest car in America — or the world, probably.

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is sending 5,000 connected cars that can wirelessly communicate with other vehicles and infrastructure onto the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich., in a real - world experiment designed to move autonomous driving closer to reality.

World of Tomorrow stuff, but even though Tesla was officially served notice in 2017 that it won't have the electric - car realm all to itself for much longer, there was another major transportation story that loomed over everything else.

The World Health Organization lists car - related death as one of the top 10 killers in the world, while far more people die of traffic fatalities in the United States than through gun violWorld Health Organization lists car - related death as one of the top 10 killers in the world, while far more people die of traffic fatalities in the United States than through gun violworld, while far more people die of traffic fatalities in the United States than through gun violence.

It's cheap, it's more diversified than our domestic market and Japan is still a world leader in a number of sectors, such as cars and machinery.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

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.

But a world piloted by cars under Cruise's control would have saved me from two heartstoppingly close calls in the span of a single day.

In it, he vowed to make the Model 3 the most precisely manufactured vehicle in the world by a factor of 10, and to produce 6,000 cars per week by the end of JunIn it, he vowed to make the Model 3 the most precisely manufactured vehicle in the world by a factor of 10, and to produce 6,000 cars per week by the end of Junin the world by a factor of 10, and to produce 6,000 cars per week by the end of June.

Over the past 100 years, Mercedes - Benz has earned quite a reputation for building some of the toughest and most solidly engineered cars in the world.

Imagine Google putting its image - recognition capabilities to work to identify and track all of the world's oil tankers, or count the number of cars in the parking lots of all the Walmarts in the United States, and making that information searchable via the Internet.

In a world of driverless cars, U.S. auto sales would plummet, vehicle ownership falls 50 % and opportunities in fleet management, tech and mapping arisIn a world of driverless cars, U.S. auto sales would plummet, vehicle ownership falls 50 % and opportunities in fleet management, tech and mapping arisin fleet management, tech and mapping arise.

«The end of car ownership is real, serious, and going to change your world,» Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer told auto - industry executives at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November.

«For certain areas in the classic car world, you could say so (the market is decelerating),» Tim Schofield, Bonhams U.K. head of cars, told CNBC on Tuesday.

Production has risen in the world's fifth largest oil producer, but full pipelines and a rail car shortage have made it difficult for drillers to ship out of Canada.

Millennials may echo their parents» behavior in stimulating the economy through spending, but instead of buying new cars and houses, their hallmark behaviors could become ride - sharing and a desire to travel the world.

But whether your idea of the good life is a big house and a fast car, making the world a better place, or producing work of lasting value in your discipline, are there any common habits that will help get you there?

VW acknowledges that it installed a cheating algorithm in each car that takes in reams of data — about atmospheric pressure, how the car was being steered, how fast it was going and how far — then determines whether the vehicle is being tested by regulators or driven in the real world, applying emissions controls accordingly.

The idea of sitting in total silence is terrifying for some, while others simply don't have the ability to ignore the uncontrollable noise of the world, be it barking dogs, honking car horns, or neighbors pulling into their garage.

All it has to do to be competitive in the self - driving world is acquire a fleet of cars, or partner with someone willing to handle that side of things.

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One caveat: the 2012 Cobra Jet was recently proclaimed the world's fastest accelerating car, reaching 95 km / hour in 1.52 seconds, besting the Veyron's record of 2.57 seconds.

This little gumdrop on wheels provides a glimpse of a world in which anyone, including children, the elderly, and the disabled, can jump in a car and be chauffeured to a predetermined destination.

It's the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric cars and the maker of the popular Prius car, one of the world's top - selling hybrids with over 6 million cars sold worldwide as of January 2017.

Car companies face a lot of competition: they make a defective car, it gets out in the world, they stop buying that car and buy another oCar companies face a lot of competition: they make a defective car, it gets out in the world, they stop buying that car and buy another ocar, it gets out in the world, they stop buying that car and buy another ocar and buy another one.

The Nissan Leaf is the world's best - selling electric car, but that's largely been a product of it being a very early, affordable contender in the electric vehicle space.

Ford and Chinese company Baidu recently invested $ 150 million in Velodyne, a manufacturer of a LiDAR system that allows self - driving cars to «see» the world around them.

«You simply submerge in a new world with the ease of stepping into your car and driving to the supermarket,» he says.

In October 2016, Elon Musk announced to the world that all new Tesla vehicles would include hardware that made them fully self - driving — in that, after a simple update, every car would be completely capable of driving itselIn October 2016, Elon Musk announced to the world that all new Tesla vehicles would include hardware that made them fully self - driving — in that, after a simple update, every car would be completely capable of driving itselin that, after a simple update, every car would be completely capable of driving itself.

The escalating trade tensions between the two largest economies in the world have resulted in China slapping a 25 percent levy on U.S. imports including products such as soybeans, cars and whiskey — a tit - for - tat after President Donald Trump targeted a list of Chinese imports.

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

With an acceleration of 0 to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds, 1500 horsepower, a top speed of 261 mph — the $ 2.9 M 2017 Bugatti Chiron is the world's most fastest car.