Sentences with phrase «of executive cars»

If you want the load - lugging capabilities of a mid-size estate car with the premium feel of the very best of executive cars, the Mercedes - Benz C - Class Estate should definitely be on your shortlist.

When you think of an executive car, you don't often think of a high - riding hatchback with lashings of chrome.

It's generally not befitting of an executive car — especially if you've plumped for that engine / gearbox combination in a more expensive R - Sport or Portfolio specification.

By the standards of the executive car class, it's about on par with what a majority of rivals offer, so there's nothing worth noting about its duration other than the warranty's pretty decent by industry standards.

Not exact matches

Ford Motor Co on Monday said it was replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with James Hackett, the head of the unit developing self - driving cars, in response to investors» growing unease over the U.S. carmaker's stock performance and prospects.

Earlier this week, Mark Fields, who had overseen the company as its chief executive since 2014, was ousted in favor of his more self - driving car savvy subordinate, Jim Hackett.

Besides, those focused on improving themselves don't work 100 - hour weeks developing SpaceX rockets and Tesla electric cars like Elon Musk, who's actually chief executive of both companies.

Although he is leaving his executive post quietly, the ex-CEO doesn't have to walk away because the coffee chain will also transfer the ownership of his former company car.

The leader of the venture, IONITY chief executive Michael Hajesch, said in a press statement Friday that the network will ease fears about electric cars and long - distance travel.

Meanwhile, a key federal advisory board focused on driverless - car technology — a committee comprised of top executives from Apple, Ford, GM, Lyft and other tech and auto giants — has fallen entirely inactive, four sources told Recode.

«The combined impact of mobility services, driverless technologies, electric cars and government policies [promoting them] will propel a national transformation in personal mobility,» said IHS Markit executive Jim Burkhard.

The co-founder of PayPal, Musk is the chief executive of both Tesla Inc., the electric - car pioneer, and Space Explorations Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, which ferries cargo for NASA.

They add that Project Titan has been «re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with existing carmakers, or return to designing its own vehicle in the future» and that «executives have given the car team a deadline of late next year to prove the feasibility of the self - driving system and decide on a final direction.»

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«We're getting some sense... that if we can figure out a way to get this right it could be persuasive for folks deciding whether they should add a second or third car to their garages,» John Krafcik, head of Waymo and a former automotive industry executive, told the Journal.

Three executives from Google's self - driving - car unit left in August, as did Bill Maris, founder and head of Google's venture arm.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

The competitive pressures were so great to develop self - driving cars in 2015 that the then Chief Executive of ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc, Trevor Kalanick, decided that «winning was more important than obeying the law,» Verhoeven said.

«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.

If you buy 12 paid rentals or 40 paid rental days in a year, you'll get executive status, which gives you a choice of full - size rental cars and automatic upgrade to the next car class up.

JERUSALEM, Oct 2 - Electric car venture Better Place said it had replaced chief executive officer Shai Agassi with the CEO of its Australia unit, five years after Agassi founded the company.

Some solar vendors «come across as used car sales people,» said Vikram Aggarwal, chief executive of EnergySage, an online comparison - shopping marketplace for solar.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said the car will now reduce its speed in anticipation of curves on the highway, but added he was not aware of any accidents caused by the earlier version of the software.

The crisis engulfing VW involves the recall of a massive number of cars (check), shame - faced executives (check) and millions of furious customers (check).

«Tom's been such a dominant, positive personality amongst us for so long that all of us in the public radio family — and I include our millions of listeners — will find this news very difficult to receive,» «Car Talk» Executive Producer Doug Berman said in a statement to NPR.

The embattled chief executive has announced he will resign following the scandal surrounding the emissions of its diesel cars.

Tesla Inc investors gave a rare rebuke to iconoclastic Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday after he cut off analysts asking about profit potential, sending shares down 5 percent despite promises that production of the troubled Model 3 electric car was on track.

If more executive order are to follow one on steel, there are plenty of targets: Chinese industries that have also been named in WTO disputes include aluminum, auto and solar glass, and car parts.

Page oversaw major changes to Google's business structure in 2015, starting with the creation of Alphabet, the holding company that manages Google and all of its related ventures, including Nest, Calico, and Google X. Previously the chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet, which has its hands in everything from home automation to self - driving cars to prolonging human life.

Most executives have — or will have — «smart» devices in their homes, in addition to connected cars, wearables and other internet of things products.

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

Hiroomi Kinoshita, President & Chief Executive Officer at Four Link Systems, Inc., who's worked on the creation of next - generation smart vehicle since 2008, said he was also hoping to appeal to a younger generation of drivers who are less interested in cars than previous generations.

The chief executive said the electric - car maker would be profitable in the second half of the year if it met its production goals.

Barrie Kirk, the executive director of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence, called the announcement a «big step forward» and said that self - driving cars could lead to «much safer» roads.

A key document in Alphabet's legal battle against Uber reveals that a former Alphabet executive had a trove of data on Alphabet's self - driving car technology and accessed some of the files after he left the company.

Waymo claims Uber was worried about getting beat in the self - driving car race so it stole Waymo's trade secrets when it hired one of its former executives.

«He was really interested in entrepreneurship, which was not a common trajectory for M.I.T. students,» said Kyle Vogt, 32, chief executive of the self - driving car company Cruise Automation, who met Mr. Houston at an M.I.T. entrepreneurship club event.

Martin Winterkorn, the embattled chief executive of Volkswagen, has announced that he is to resign following the scandal surrounding the emissions of its diesel cars.

For the past week, as the electric - car maker Tesla has been buffeted by a barrage of negative news, Elon Musk, its chief executive, has offered no public comments on the company's shaky finances, its slumping stock price or the increasing questions about the safety of its self - driving technology.

Just a week away from Faraday Future's live stream reveal of its first production car from CES 2017, a top executive referred to...

GM and Lyft said they will work together to develop a network of self - driving cars that riders can call up on - demand, a vision of the future shared by the likes of Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick and Google - parent Alphabet Inc..

Tesla Inc. is suspending production of the Model 3 sedan for at least the second time in roughly two months, just after Chief Executive Elon Musk admitted to mistakes that hindered his most important car.

Martin Winterkorn is one of the executives who are alleged to have either rigged cars to beat emissions tests or taken part in a coverup.

So, for instance, if you bought Bitcoin as an investment in late 2013, when it was trading at around $ 1,000, and used it to buy a car when the currency was trading at $ 18,000, you would have a long - term capital gain of $ 17,000, explained Ryan Losi, an accountant and executive vice president at Piascik, a tax firm.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

Tesla, the electric car company of which Elon Musk is chairman, chief executive, and the largest shareholder (with a 26.5 % stake), has just made an offer to acquire SolarCity, the clean energy company of which Elon Musk is chairman and the largest shareholder (with a 22.2 % stake.)

Management Auto Manufacturers The Volkswagen emissions scandal, which saw the company fudge emissions tests to make its cars appear less polluting, has resulted in a new CEO appointment, the suspension of key executives and a proposed group restructure.

Perhaps the most compelling feature of the company, which is still in semi-stealth mode, is that it was co-founded by two former top executives of Google's self - driving car project: Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson.

Uber has faced ongoing scrutiny over allegations of workplace harassment, a criminal probe into its attempts to evade regulators, a lawsuit over trade secret theft brought by Waymo — its competitor in the self - driving car industry — and a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges her medical files were improperly shared by Kalanick and other executives.