Sentences with phrase «reduce car production»

«We have strategically decided to reduce car production rather than increase incentive spending or dump vehicles into daily rental fleets, like some of our competitors,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of Sales Operations.

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Unexpected maintenance reliability problems with BHP's car dumpers — the giant machines that can pick up and empty a fully loaded rail car of ore — forced the resources giant to reduce iron ore production guidance for 2017 - 18 to between 272 million tonnes and 274 million tonnes, just down from its previous guidance of 275 million tonnes and 280 million tonnes.

Car production at German plants was reduced by 13 percent to 474,900 vehicles in March, bringing the three - month volume decline to 11 percent, the VDA said.

If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

He stresses that energy efficiency and greater production of electricity from renewables is the key to reducing the environmental impact of electric cars in the operational phase, globally.

That car completed a lap in a scalding 7:39, but there were rumors of the Giulia running on racing slicks, along with reduced weight over the production model.

That would be costly, reducing the potential profit on a Rocketman production car.

The car's aerodynamics also made a pivotal contribution to performance: its 1.67 efficiency figure is a new record for a production Ferrari, and is the fruit of 50 per cent more downforce than the previous model and reduced drag.

CAMI Automotive, the Ingersoll, Ontario - based GM - Suzuki joint venture car assembly plant, has confirmed that it stopped production of the Suzuki Swift and Chevrolet Metro in April 2001, reducing the workforce «by about 500 team members» as a result.

Shortly afterwards, the technology makes its way into Audi production cars where it helps reduce CO2 emissions in millions of units.

The body sits 20 mm lower, active shutters in the grille reduce turbulence at speed and the hybrid's new look hides elements that help lower the coefficient of drag from an already impressive 0.25 CD to 0.24 CD — you'd be hard pressed to find a more slippery production car for sale.

The rear - wheel steering was dropped from the production car to save weight and reduce complexity, as was the height adjustable suspension and active aerodynamic technology.

The main aim of the production team was to reduce the car's weight and focus on its functionality.

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The successor to the best - selling racing car of all time built in a production series of more than 1,400 units is based for the first time on the 911 GT3 RS, with the weight of the racing model reduced significantly versus the lightweight road - going version.

After EEV car status local production, new price reduced to only RM200K... (but MITI said still a big RM50K cheaper)

Nissan claims that they were able to reduce the prices of the car by improving localisation levels in the production process.

But it's a vehicle Chrysler hopes to transform into reality very soon, based on a concept called the Dodge Intrepid ESX2, a plastic - body machine capable of getting 80 mpg while holding the family and its vacation luggage.The ESX2 is a concept car sporting injection - molded plastic body panels as a substitute for steel in an attempt to reduce weight, boost mileage, simplify production - and reduce cost.

The about - face, which makes a mockery of some of the German carmaker's earlier advertising campaigns, has been driven by the need to reduce production costs, as well as provide competitive packaging for a new generation of small cars.

That being said, the Alfa promises to be even more exotic than the comparable Subaru BRZ and Scion FR - S as the concept car was constructed out of carbon fiber and weighed less than 1,900 pounds, although the use of carbon fiber in the production car is expected to be reduced significantly.

Renault reduced production VAM's passenger car line so it would not compete with its own products.

Delivery strictly to heads of states and members of ruling Royal families limited the production to a mere 18 cars - of which the experimental car later was reduced to produce.

Other technology included on AMG's second turbocharged production car engine is a Bosch - supplied piezo injection system capable of providing up to seven individual injections per cycle, cylinder barrels finished with Mercedes - Benz's patented Nanoslide friction - reducing material, a cylinder head produced from a lightly Zirconium - refined aluminum, and dry - sump lubrication.

According to the boys from Aston, the race spec version of the Rapide wouldn't be too far off of the production version with the only noticeable difference between the two would be the addition of race safety modifications and the elimination of all the interior trims and features found in the production version in an effort to reduce the car's overall weight.

The London - based researcher expects those cars to reduce oil demand 8 million barrels by 2040, more than the current combined production of Iran and Iraq.

Cars can be made half as heavy as they are today by using composite materials such as light but strong carbon fiber, a choice that gives manufacturers more flexibility and reduces costs in production.

The production tax credit, if renewed, would lead to future wind development that would reduce carbon emissions equivalent to an additional 30,000 cars and provide enough energy to power another 50,000 homes, according to Dorle.

Despite some impressive local advances, the global loss of momentum in expanding food production is forcing us to think more seriously about reducing demand by stabilizing population, moving down the food chain, and reducing the use of grain to fuel cars.

I also eat a 100 % vegan diet, which at least one study has shown reduces the CO2 emissions associated with food production compared to the standard American diet by an amount comparable to the difference between driving a compact car and driving an SUV.

Since the passage of its landmark global warming law in 2006, California has been reducing carbon emissions from cars, trucks, homes and factories, while boosting production of renewable energy.

It's like saying that Ford will not reduce production because of one lost car sale.

Transportation policies that favor electric vehicles or even self - driving cars, for example, could someday lower emissions; in the energy sector, an increased focus on biofuels or hydrogen production could do the same; and in agriculture, slow release fertilizers could reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

For one thing, he didn't invent the automobile; he invented, or certainly used effectively, production - line manufacturing that let him reduce the costs of a car and make it accessible.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

Further, we may see a dwindling need for manufacturing facilities, automobile showrooms and car lots: according to a study released last month by Barclays, driverless cars will reduce U.S. auto sales by 40 percent over the next 25 years and force General Motors and Ford to cut North American production by more than half.