Sentences with phrase «small car companies»

If small cars are particularly adept at changing direction, you might assume that small car companies can react to customer demands quickly, too.

Durant was a great promoter and visionary, and by 1909 he had turned Buick into the best - selling car in the U.S. Searching for a business model in a new industry, and with the prescient vision that a car company should offer multiple brands, that year he bought three other small car companies — Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac — and merged them with Buick, renaming the combined company General Motors.

Rather than hiring designers and building a plant like a typical small car company, Eberhard outsourced the manufacturing.

«Volkswagen has been received in the market as very much a small car company.

Callum expressed some disappointment that Jaguar will go a few years without an XK — the grand tourer is being discontinued and won't be replaced for a few years — but said, «we're a very small car company, so we can't do everything.»

Mazda is a small car company with limited resources and growing pains from its half - decade old separation from former controlling stakeholder Ford Motor Company.

Mazda is one of the smallest car companies on Earth.

Not exact matches

A small, scrappy company in Burlingame, California, is quietly rethinking the way the car sharing industry will function in the years to come — and it just got a big boost from one of Silicon Valley's premier VC firms.

In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small - car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower - cost Mexico by 2019, but no plants would be closed as a result.

The company had always been relatively well established with small cars, thanks to its European operations, but it was adrift with larger sedans.

In a fraught environment where small businesses owners are extremely guarded about their intellectual property — in particular their patents — wizard inventor Elon Musk caused quite a stir on Tuesday at the electric car company's shareholder meeting in Mountain View, California.

The small companies behind these bewitching motorcycles and sports cars are a bright spot in the American auto industry.

Baidu — alongside other companies like Google (googl) and General Motors (gm)-- is also actively encouraging a push for better coordination between autonomous vehicle manufacturers and the U.S. government, saying that it's necessary to make small changes to existing infrastructure and ease regulatory obstacles in order to get self - driving cars on the road.

Perhaps for this reason, many people who invest in start - ups tend to favor companies that are based on small, executable ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization or the resurrection of the electric car.

Vanguard, meanwhile, which has a smaller position in the car - hailing company, took a loss of more than $ 10 million.

While most of these companies are using lithium - ion batteries in their current models, Dyson said its car would use solid - state batteries that are smaller, more efficient, easier to charge and potentially easier to recycle.

The smallest company in attendance was electric car maker Tesla, with a market capitalization of $ 31.92 billion.

Small and medium companies across the country that have contracts with the prime (think of a parts manufacturer for a car or airplane company) or with the government are eligible in the vast majority of cases.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra has said the company's small - car production will remain in Mexico, but it could only be a matter of time before she's forced to change course.

Thanks to nuTonomy and MIT's partnership with Singapore, a country with dense urban areas has been highly receptive to driverless car technology, the comparatively small company could become the first to operate fully self - driving cars, known as «level four,» in a city commercially.

He's also an entrepreneur, having founded a company called Do Your Park that aims to call out bad parking jobs by allowing customers to slap a small «you suck at parking» citation on the cars of bad parkers.

Drive - thrus are valuable to the elderly, the immobile, parents with small children and, believe it or not, are actually better for the environment than cars in parking lots — or so says TDL, the parent company of Tim Hortons.

«After years of claiming the OPEL business was critical to the company's global platform strategy in small cars and diesel engines (while suffering billions on losses), the company surprised the market with its decision to completely exit,» wrote Jonas.

Readers can get a sense of the company's breadth from just a small sprinkling of its products, which include maps, music, patent searches, cloud storage, and autonomous cars.

Tata's investment in Faraday Future might seem like a hefty sum to pay on a company that is seemingly out of runway, but gaining access to Faraday's intellectual property could be a small investment for Tata's subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover, which looks to launch its own series of fully electric cars.

While Google may have pioneered the self - driving space years ago, the company's autonomous car arm has struggled to secure substantial partnerships with major automakers, save for a small deal with Fiat Chrysler.

Prior to joining us, Mr. Ahuja served in various positions at Ford Motor Company from August 1993 to July 2008, most recently as the Vehicle Line Controller of Small Cars Product Development from July 2006 to July 2008, and as Chief Financial Officer for Ford of Southern Africa from February 2003 to June 2006.

Car companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tecCar companies like GM, Volkswagen, Daimler and many others are putting billions of dollars towards backing a range of startups that are building technology and services for that brave new automotive future (a small handful of examples: GM investing $ 1 billion in Lyft, Volkswagen investing $ 180 million in smart car tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving teccar tech maker Mobvoi, and Ford pumping $ 1 billion into Argo AI for self - driving tech).

The billionaire also owns small stakes in electric - car maker Tesla and 23andMe, a genome - mapping company started by his ex-wife, Anne Wojcicki.

They can't be the only bank providing working capital financing to a mid-size manufacturing company, are too small to finance a successful new car dealer and really shouldn't take on a mid-sized medical, accounting or law practice.

There are a lot of companies, big and small, that make custom car seat covers.

Some companies even rent and sell small power generators that plug into either a car's lighter or a rechargeable battery pack.

If you are working and breastfeeding at a smaller company where you can't have a dedicated mother's room, consider setting your car up as your perfect pumping place.

German car hire company Sixt has come under criticism for its new advertising posters urging customers to rent small car models.

A Hamburg mechanical systems company has purchased a small warehouse building on Amsdell Road that was previously home to Hamburg School Car Service.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara also told a news conference Thursday that the criminal probe into the company's deadly problem with small - car ignition switches continues.

For example, the Model S electric car designed by Tesla Motors, a company owned by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, is powered by thousands of small lithium - ion batteries arrayed between the car's axles.

Graduate roles in small start - ups also tend to involve more responsibility, says Christoph Roessner, managing director and co-founder of Süssen - based company Eight, which develops solar - powered charging stations for electric cars.

The company plans to develop smaller cameras that could be mounted on police cars or hand - held.

Tapping the sponsorship of none other than lumbering, financially troubled General Motors and blending it with the skills of some of the most innovative, daring engineers in the vehicle business, MacCready has driven his small company to design and build a car that many observers think will make the biggest splash since the ’65 Mustang, and maybe even since the Model T. It's fast, it's sexy, and it's being rushed into mass production.

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The chassis and body of the car were made by Reynard, a small company in Oxfordshire that makes racers for many clients, including Michael Andretti, who will use his Reynard model in the 1994 Indianapolis 500 race.

But now a small company in Maryland in the US has developed a cheap computerised device to attach to the carburettors of Mexican cars which it claims could cut emissions drastically while improving fuel economy.

The new all - aluminum XK is touted as the saviour of the company and it may well be, offering the opportunity to extract design from the stagnation of retro looks, but surely a smaller, less expensive sports car would make Jaguar exciting to younger buyers again.

The company's small car production will leave the Michigan Assembly Plant for Mexico in 2018.

Ford's smallest car in the States is now home to the company's smallest engine on our shores as well.

While Ford expected big things for its small cars (including the Fiesta, already assembled in Mexico), the midsize Fusion sedan, and especially all its trucks and sport / utility vehicles do far better for the company and its bottom line.

So since 2012 the company has sold small numbers of these drag - racing optimized cars (usually 69 of them, to honor 1969 as the first year of the COPO Camaro option).

There are also many smaller companies offering LED headlights, they seem to be mostly audiophile and car enthusiast specialty sites.

The company is putting a small fleet of self - driving XC90s to the test in Sweden starting in 2017, as it continues its push to launching autonomous cars.