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Legislation backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio would, in redundant fashion, require that same study and also let the city cap the growth of for - hire vehicle companies while the study is ongoing.

Not exact matches

While Musk's stated reason for the policy shift is to promote «the advancement of electric vehicle technology,» business analysts suggested that it was an economically necessary maneuver for the company.

Autonomously - driving vehicles could help give ride - sharing companies access to customers they otherwise couldn't reach — without Lyft or Uber having to worry about drivers getting enough work to make it worth their while.

While most companies developing self - driving vehicles want to use them to move people, Ford wants to use them to move goods - at least at first.

Hackett has focused on streamlining Ford's core vehicle business while also recasting the company's message for investors who are captivated by self - driving cars and the arrival of upstart competitors such as Tesla.

While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldman's proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients.

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

The company's proposed Highway Drive Assist System automatically keeps cars in the correct lane and maintains an appropriate distance between vehicles, while the Autonomous Emergency Stop System will sense if the driver is debilitated and then maneuver the car to the shoulder of the road to stop.

While some companies like Tesla already offer semi-autonomous technology — where the driver can take their hands off the wheel for brief periods of time — it is likely to be several years before people can turn over the majority of the driving to the «brains» in their vehicle.

Cortica's automotive AI technology focuses on unsupervised machine learning which, the company says, allows the intelligence system to understand a vehicle's environment and independently identify objects while on the road.

So while McLaren is widely known among car enthusiasts, the company is still trying to get out the message that its vehicles are something you can buy, not just admire from afar.

While BMW emerged as the most reputable company overall in this year's global survey, Canadians put Mercedes on top of the vehicle category, ranking 25 spots above the Beemer.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Station.

While Tesla went the way of adding sensors to all its production vehicles to gather data, most other automakers and tech companies are doing it through captive test fleets, which all vary in sizes.

While ridesharing among family and friends of Tesla drivers is still fine, the company made it clear that using its self - driving vehicles in this manner for revenue purposes will only be permitted through its Tesla Network.

The company has spent most of the past year working toward this blockbuster quarter, while making heavy investments in its manufacturing processes in preparation of the launch of the Model 3 electric vehicle, which is expected to roll out by the end of next year.

While Model S and X cater to the high - end luxury segment, Tesla's Model 3, which the company expects to begin delivering in late 2017, starts at about half the price of its current vehicle lineup.

He started an online textbook retail company while in college, served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors, and worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by Eric Schmidt.

Some were frustrated with the pace of progress and had doubts about new leader John Krafcik, while others wanted to start their own autonomous vehicle companies, people familiar with the matter said.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

In a blog post, Tesla Motors revealed that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the company's Autopilot system, as a Model S electric vehicle driver was killed in an accident while the feature was turned on.

«While the P100D Ludicrous is obviously an expensive vehicle, we want to emphasize that every sale helps pay for the smaller and much more affordable Tesla Model 3 that is in development,» the company says.

The electric vehicle movement the company arguably popularized is seeing momentum from new and existing players, while self - driving competitors like Alphabet's Waymo strike deals with automakers to develop vehicles that could rival Tesla's own offerings.

U.S. retailers Walmart and Sam Edelman are expanding in the Chinese market, while The Children's Place makes its debut, GAC Motor is trying to bring its vehicles to American consumers and, within China, Alibaba has been busily acquiring smaller companies in the constant race to maintain its edge over competitor Tencent.

While drawing in more investors, the company plans to produce 500,000 vehicles annually by 2018.

A U.K. provider of permanent, contract and temporary recruitment focused on the white - collar market was the Fund's top performer this quarter, while a Canadian company that offers acquisition, servicing and financing services for various types of vehicles was the largest detractor.

At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting Tuesday, chief executive Elon Musk shed new light on the company's next sport - utility vehicle, the Model Y, while confirming the production schedule for the new Model 3, the company's entry - level auto priced at $ 35,000.

He's giving everything he has to revolutionize transportation, energy capture and battery storage while making the safest, cleanest vehicles ever created, which the status quo said were impossible, and now all other car companies are chasing his lead.

Here's the thing, the technology used inside Uber's self - driving truck comes from Otto, a self - driving vehicle group the company acquired a while back.

But transportation companies know all too well that for much of the time, engines are running when vehicles aren't moving, either because the vehicle is stuck in traffic or it's left on while parked.

The challenge for companies testing the technology has been New York's motor vehicle law requiring that a driver have both hands on the wheel of car while it is in operation.

According to Same George, although he declined to purchase the vehicle allocated to him while serving as a Presidential staffer under the former government, some of his colleagues bought theirs after the vehicles were duly properly valuated by the State Transport Company.

Other companies developing inductive charging systems include WiTricity, a spin - out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Nissan last year announced that it was looking into wireless charging for its electric vehicles.

While carmakers are developing more economical com - bustion engines and alternative drive systems, research establishments and companies are working on making more efficient use of vehicles.

The commercial crew program — subsidies for companies like SpaceX to develop privately owned, human - rated rockets — would get $ 805 million, while the agency would spend $ 2.051 billion on its own rocket, the Space Launch System, a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

While Supercharger stations are clearly marked as being set up by Tesla for its own cars, CHAdeMO and SAE Combo chargers are generally installed and owned by infrastructure companies like NRG EVgo or ChargePoint, making it unclear which vehicles can plug into which stations.

Bad Company is an example of what happens when filmmakers decide to engage in a feckless cash grab — a greatest hits compendium of stolen moments so bombastic and dreary that when the film actually rips off a gag from Fletch (like that balding loser at the bar thinking himself a wit while well into the second decade of quoting Chevy Chase vehicles).

Mountain Brook City Schools currently is working with its local power company testing electric vehicles as a way to reduce costs while improving operations and helping the environment.

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.

While the company already has experience covering exotic vehicles, the Bugatti takes warranty quotations to a whole new level.

InventoryPro, which serves as a replacement for DealerWire, allows dealers to stock more of the models that sell faster, the company says, while ridding inventories of less - profitable vehicles.

And while youre at it, perhaps a witch hunt of all things «hybrid», to sort the legitimate «hybrids» from those that are simply adding 100/200 kgs of weight to a lash - up of a vehicle to clean up the company's [bad?]

Google's conventional Lexus RX crossovers and Toyota Prius sedans, the ones with the ungainly aftermarket rack - and - cone setup on their roofs, continue to roam Northern California — Google says its vehicles have traveled the equivalent of some 1.7 million miles, 1 million of them in driverless mode — while the company awaits a ruling from the California Department of Motor Vehicles that would allow it to test its new prototypes without driver controls on public roads.

There are various kinds of vehicle service contracts — some are backed by the vehicle manufacturer, while many others are offered by independent third - party companies.

While Tavares has indicated PSA plans a return to the U.S. market, he's said it's a ten - year project that will involve the company first trading as a mobility provider — running a fleet of someone else's vehicles.

Time hasn't been good to the 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: while it's still Hyundai's most fuel - efficient vehicle, it was one of the many models implicated in the company's MPG inflation scandal and, as such, no longer scores 40 mpg on the EPA test cycle.

While the e-tron quattro will be Audi's first full - production electric vehicle, the company has built several examples in the past to learn its lessons, not to mentioned raced hybrid electric cars to overall victory at Le Mans.

While it's somewhat ironic that the company credited with inventing the very object now blamed for an impending climate crisis is now pioneering technologies for a zero - emissions future, one thing is for sure: The German car company makes a compelling case for EVs with a luxury vehicle that retains many Mercedes hallmarks and does so at a competitive starting price of $ 42,375.

While Nissan has no plans to produce anything like the Armada Mountain Patrol, the company often uses concept vehicles like this to gauge public interest in aftermarket parts and accessories that it may offer through its dealers or specialty equipment companies.

While it may sound like a tiny stepping stone toward the fully autonomous vehicles Volvo - and, of course, others - are working on, the company says it can actually make a big difference on the road.