Sentences with phrase «produce electric vehicles»

As he often does, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca made the biggest news at the show by announcing that his company would be the first American automaker to produce electric vehicles for sale to the general public.

The automaker will invest a sum of Rs 4,000 crore in next 3 - 5 years to produce electric vehicles, out of which it has already invested Rs 500 crore.

In fact, nearly all major auto firms are either producing electric vehicles, such as the Audi A-3 e-tron, BMW i3, Chevrolet Volt, Ford Fusion Energi, Nissan LEAF, Volkswagen e-Golf or the Toyota Prius, or have plans to do so in the near future.

«The input energy to produce an electric vehicle was 1.5 times the energy to produce an [internal combustion vehicle],» Campbell says.

The BMW i3 and Tesla Model S were pioneers in terms of modern, mass produced electric vehicles.

According to those in the know, producing electric vehicles is only part of Nio's future business model.

Tesla has announced plans to introduce its new Model S in the near future, while Ford, Coda, Mitsubishi, BMW, Toyota, Mercedes, and Honda are producing electric vehicles for sale in the United States this year.

Around a year after the 2018 Mazda3's launch, Mazda will start mass - producing electric vehicles, and the company plans to launch a plug - in hybrid in 2021.

Nissan is in the final development phase of its second mass produced electric vehicle, the e-NV200 electric van.

We're talking about the MINI Electric Concept, a study which previews the brand's first mass - produced electric vehicle, scheduled to go on sale in 2019 under the «MINI Electric» banner.

Parker's test equipment includes seven Enel chargers and four different series - produced electric vehicles from the three different automotive brands.

Today I'd like to introduce you to the Nissan Leaf, a car destined to become the first mass produced all electric vehicle in the United States.

The Chinese are committing to these technologies big time, and to producing electric vehicles.

Furthermore, several other car companies are now producing these electric vehicles of desire.

And not when even the smaller start - ups like Phoenix Motorcars and Tesla have already produced electric vehicles that deliver in excess of 100 miles on one electric charge.

POD Point, a UK - based tech company that produces electric vehicle charging solutions, has recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign / bond through Crowdcube to raise # 1.5 million.

What we do know is that it is a well - funded company linked to Chinese investors headquartered in Los Angeles producing an electric vehicle to compete not just with Tesla but with other «mobility devices» as well.

The use of proceeds from the sale of the UGTs will be dedicated to producing the electric vehicle.

Not exact matches

The battery packs and electric motors will be shipped to Tesla's factory in Fremont, Calif., where the Model 3 vehicle will be produced.

Bringing electric motor production to the Nevada factory allows Tesla to maximize the footprint of its Fremont factory, in which every inch of the hefty 5.3 million - square - foot space will be needed, as the company pushes toward its goal of producing 500,000 vehicles annually.

After years producing premium electric vehicles in smaller volumes, it is struggling to ramp up the production of its Model 3 sedans.

Industry analyst Menahem Anderman, president of Advanced Automotive Batteries, which produces research on electric batteries for vehicles, says Tesla has yet to turn a profit solely from operations.

It also confirmed a Reuters report that it is developing its first dedicated electric vehicle platform, which will allow the company to produce multiple models with longer driving ranges.

In addition to the Nikola One, Nikola Motors is also promising to produce the smaller Nikola Two short - haul semi, and the Nikola Zero electric off - road vehicle.

They include ECD's low - cost cell for solar power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery for powering hybrid - electric vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.

That's because the batteries that power them are becoming cheaper all the time, and more and more automakers are producing attractive electric vehicles, generating jobs and growth in the process.

Automakers produce about 90 million cars each year, but less than 2 percent of those are electric vehicles, said Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in Hong Kong last week.

Tesla began producing electric cars at its plant in Fremont, Calif., six years ago, starting with small quantities and ramping up to about 100,000 vehicles last year.

One might recall that the California - based electric car maker reported an unremarkable 260 Model 3 vehicles produced and 220 delivered in the third quarter, citing «manufacturing bottlenecks» as the reason for missing its original guidance of 1,500 Model units produced by the end of September.

We are the first and currently only company to commercially produce a federally - compliant highway - capable electric vehicle, the Tesla Roadster, which combines a market - leading range on a single charge with attractive design, driving performance and zero tailpipe emissions.

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«There is still skepticism in the market regarding the safety and reliability of electric vehicles, especially ones produced by a new Chinese automobile manufacturer that was previously unknown outside the country,» Marco Mak, head of research at Hong Kong's Tai Fook Securities, said in a research note

In addition to trying to bring electric vehicles to the mainstream, the chief executive officer had sought to build a competitive advantage over established automakers by installing more robots to quickly produce vehicles.

To reduce these emissions, cities and businesses are considering deploying electric vehicles, which produce no tailpipe emissions that would...

As the first company to commercially produce a high - performance, highway - capable fully electric vehicle, we have received substantial media attention.

Toyota Motor Corp, Asia's No. 1 carmaker, has found a way to make electric vehicles (EVs) more affordable and less vulnerable to shortages in supply of the key elements needed to produce the rechargeable batteries that power them.

If you aren't aware of them, BYD produces the most electric vehicles in the world, most of them as passenger vehicles in China.

Buoyed by the mass market appeal of the Model 3, Tesla hopes to produce half a million electric cars by 2018, vastly ramping up its output over last year, at 85,000 vehicles.

The bigger story, he said, is that production is ramping for a difficult - to - produce and potentially important electric vehicle.

Germany's car industry, which produced a record 16.5 million passenger vehicles last year and employs 825,000 people, is already planning to invest $ 50 billion into electric mobility by 2020.

In order to produce and sell electric vehicles in China, European companies are being pushed to share their battery technology with Chinese partners.

The introduction of mass produced passenger electric vehicles has the potential to significantly increase the future consumption of lithium.

In the last year, fully - electric cars finally made a comeback in vehicles commercially produced by Nissan and Tesla.

«Electric and fuel cell vehicles, already implement regenerative braking in order to store the energy produced during braking for start - up, so why would trains not be able to do so?»

With automakers here lagging behind their Western peers in making traditional cars, the chance to catch up lies in producing technologically advanced models such as electric vehicles.

The electric vehicles» benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions are countered by the expense and pollution from producing the vehicles, leading to debate on whether they are the best replacement for conventional vehicles.

«If a power company has the ability to selectively charge groups of vehicles based on when renewable energy resources are available,» he says, «it makes electric vehicles useful not only for reducing petroleum consumption but for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases overall that we produce.»

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

A fuel - cell electric vehicle works by converting hydrogen to electricity, producing only heat and water in the process.

Surplus power could be used for charging electric vehicles and for «pumped storage,» where water is pumped uphill into a reservoir to produce hydropower later.