Sentences with phrase «vehicle launched by»

Arriving later in 2018 as the fifth electrified vehicle launched by Honda over the past year, Insight will join the Clarity series (Clarity Fuel Cell, Clarity Electric and Clarity Plug - in Hybrid) and the all - new 2018 Accord Hybrid, arriving at dealerships nationwide early this year.

Arriving later in 2018 as the third electrified vehicle launched by Honda Canada over the past year, Insight will join the Clarity Plug - in Hybrid and the all - new 2018 Accord Hybrid..

Not exact matches

The company's Open Automotive Alliance launched in January intends to do for cars what Android did for phones by running an Android - like platform directly onto a vehicle's dashboard.

Perhaps by skipping the Prairies in initial launches, car manufacturers also realize there is some truth to the stereotype of Albertans as big truck - and SUV - driving types who are not as interested in fuel - efficient vehicles.

The goal is to generate vast quantities of lithium - ion batteries by early 2017, in time for the launch of Tesla's lower - priced electric vehicle, the $ 35,000 Model 3.

They use a millimeter wave (mmW) radar seeker with a semi-active laser (SAL) that enables final guidance to the target by either the launching platform or another plane, and are perfect to destroy a vehicle with very low collateral damage risk, and an accuracy of about 1 - 2 meters.

By utilizing new streaming technology to the fullest, offering a reasonable price point and tapping into the familiarity of films and star power, Lane and Comley launched and marketed a new vehicle for Broadway that made a niche market infinitely accessible.

BMW has said it would launch a fully autonomous car by 2021, while Ford Motor has said it will introduce a vehicle with similar capabilities for ride - sharing purposes in the same year.

The market is typically divided between $ 2 million to $ 5 million light vehicles — built by Rocket Lab, Vector and Virgin Orbit — and $ 62 million to $ 400 million heavy vehicles — built by SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin.

Kitty Hawk, the mysterious flying - car startup backed by Alphabet CEO Larry Page, has finally launched, and it says its first vehicle will be available by the end of this year.

Three tactics proved especially promising: 1) moving away from «direct» sales and toward integrated campaigns that drove purchases in retail stores; 2) using DRTV as an inexpensive testing vehicle, rather than an all - or - nothing launch pad; and 3) maximizing margins by relentlessly optimizing costs and sales prices.

Musk added that with the ability to carry satellites or interplanetary spacecraft weighing over 53 metric tons or 117,000 pounds to orbit, Falcon Heavy will have more than twice the performance of the Delta IV Heavy, the next most powerful vehicle, which is operated by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint venture.

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.

Founded as recently as March 2016 by former executives from Tesla, Apple and Google, Future Mobility (which will now operate its EV business under the name Byton) has already garnered a huge amount of interest from investors, securing $ 200m to achieve its promise of launching autonomous vehicles on the market by 2020.

When launched, it will be a Level 3 autonomous vehicle, meaning that it will have some autonomous functions but, by 2020, it should reach Level 4, when it becomes near - autonomous.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

By the early 1990s, private aerospace companies had recognized the untapped commercial potential of space and were experimenting with developing their own truly commercial launch vehicles.

These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles based on a completely new architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.

By launching a peer - to - peer service, Maven would get access to more vehicles without its parent having to carry more hard assets on its balance sheet.

The village is assuming all fleet maintenance duties for park district vehicles, which were maintained by private sector businesses prior to the launch of the program, said interim park district Executive Director Steve Nagle.

♦ Ideas for making the UK's road network ready to support connected and autonomous vehicles are sought as part of a competition launched by the National Infrastructure Commission.

Since the launch of the Drive Clean Rebate for electric vehicles in March, New York state has seen a 74 percent increase in sales of electric cars over the same period in 2016, according to a press release published last week by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

On the exploration front, both the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion Crew Vehicle would be funded at FY 2017 enacted amounts, the same as the House bill, as opposed to the cuts requested by the Administration.

For example, Pike says, NASA could have got by with a much smaller vehicle than the CEV, which is three times the size of the Apollo capsule, requiring a scaling up of the launch vehicle and everything else in the program.

The Chinese government hopes to avoid an auto - driven environmental apocalypse both by mandating increasing fuel efficiency but also by pushing these domestic vehicle manufacturers for homegrown hybrid, electric and fuel - cell vehicles under its «863» program — deriving its name from its launch back in March 1986.

Honda global CEO Takanobu Ito said last week that Honda considers the FCEV «the ultimate environmentally responsible vehicle» and will launch an all - new fuel cell electric model in Japan, followed by the United States and Europe starting in 2015.

However, every flight made by the Falcon 9 [a SpaceX launch vehicle that achieved orbit in June] puts experience on nine motors.

Consequently, no launch vehicle today stands ready to take people to the moon and back, although the Falcon Heavy rocket built by private spaceflight firm SpaceX, which is currently in testing, may fill the void.

That's lower than the predicted rate for any other contemporary American launch vehicle, including the Pegasus XL made by Orbital Sciences, Falcon I's direct competitor in the small - payload market.

Tesla launched its luxury Model S in China earlier this year, Daimler and Chinese carmaker BYD Co Ltd will start selling the Denza electric car this year and Volkswagen plans to sell more than 15 green vehicle models in China by 2018.

But a new architecture study report released on 20 November concluded that the plan could not work without NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift vehicle that is still in development but should be ready to take humans into space by 2021.

Built mainly by students and hitching rides into orbit on NASA and U.S. Department of Defense launch vehicles, the small, low - cost satellites have been making history.

By launching a Skylab - type vehicle — even if significantly smaller — China is, nonetheless, going to set records for Asians in space, he said.

The fuel could be delivered to the depots by relatively small rockets — a process that advocates say would provide a market to stimulate commercial development of new and perhaps cheaper launch vehicles.

«If you're going to spend $ 1.25 billion plus launch vehicle costs to do something,» said council chair Steve Squyres, a Cornell planetary scientist, «and you get the most important things by not going after the rock, don't go after the rock.»

The submersible had been at sea for more than a year, one of a fleet of four robotic vehicles called Wave Gliders launched by Sunnyvale, Calif. — based Liquid Robotics.

SLS like the Space Shuttle will be powered initially by two solid rocket boosters on the sides of the launch vehicle.

NASA's newest heavy - lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, or SLS, was announced by the space agency at the aftermath of the cancellation of the Constellation program by the White House in 2010, which had the goal of returning astronauts to the surface of the Moon bylaunch vehicle, the Space Launch System, or SLS, was announced by the space agency at the aftermath of the cancellation of the Constellation program by the White House in 2010, which had the goal of returning astronauts to the surface of the Moon byLaunch System, or SLS, was announced by the space agency at the aftermath of the cancellation of the Constellation program by the White House in 2010, which had the goal of returning astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2020.

Inspiration Mars» mission architecture, as outlined by Tito, calls for two launches: one unmanned SLS launch for placing the Inspiration Mars spacecraft into low - Earth orbit, and a second crewed launch of one of the Commercial Crew transportation vehicles that are currently under development to deliver the crew to the Mars - bound spaceship.

It was launched on December 10, 1999, from Kourou, French Guiana, by an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.

Nissan announced that it plans to launch three new electric vehicles and five e-POWER models in Japan by the end of fiscal 2022 (31 March 2023).

So what does it mean for CST - 100 spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle currently being developed by Boeing?

Within 90 days [due approx January 2011] after the date of enactment of this Act, or upon completion of reference designs for the Space Launch System and Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle authorized by this Act, whichever occurs first, the Administrator shall provide a detailed report to the appropriate committees of Congress that provides an overall description of the reference vehicle design, the assumptions, description, data, and analysis of the systems trades and resolution process, justification of trade decisions, the design factors which implement the essential system and vehicle capability requirements established by this Act, the explanation and justification of any deviations from those requirements, the plan for utilization of existing contracts, civil service and contract workforce, supporting infrastructure utilization and modifications, and procurement strategy to expedite development activities through modification of existing contract vehicles, and the schedule of design and development milestones and related schedules leading to the accomplishment of operational goals established by thVehicle authorized by this Act, whichever occurs first, the Administrator shall provide a detailed report to the appropriate committees of Congress that provides an overall description of the reference vehicle design, the assumptions, description, data, and analysis of the systems trades and resolution process, justification of trade decisions, the design factors which implement the essential system and vehicle capability requirements established by this Act, the explanation and justification of any deviations from those requirements, the plan for utilization of existing contracts, civil service and contract workforce, supporting infrastructure utilization and modifications, and procurement strategy to expedite development activities through modification of existing contract vehicles, and the schedule of design and development milestones and related schedules leading to the accomplishment of operational goals established by thvehicle design, the assumptions, description, data, and analysis of the systems trades and resolution process, justification of trade decisions, the design factors which implement the essential system and vehicle capability requirements established by this Act, the explanation and justification of any deviations from those requirements, the plan for utilization of existing contracts, civil service and contract workforce, supporting infrastructure utilization and modifications, and procurement strategy to expedite development activities through modification of existing contract vehicles, and the schedule of design and development milestones and related schedules leading to the accomplishment of operational goals established by thvehicle capability requirements established by this Act, the explanation and justification of any deviations from those requirements, the plan for utilization of existing contracts, civil service and contract workforce, supporting infrastructure utilization and modifications, and procurement strategy to expedite development activities through modification of existing contract vehicles, and the schedule of design and development milestones and related schedules leading to the accomplishment of operational goals established by this Act.

New Horizons will be launched aboard an Atlas 5 «551» vehicle, with a bulbous five - meter payload shroud built by the Swiss contractor Contraves, five Aerojet - built solid rocket boosters, another single - engine Centaur, and a Star 48B third stage.

India could build or buy commercial electric propulsion systems built in France or Russia to significantly improve the cargo payload mass that could be put into a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit by its possible future Reusable Launch Vehicle or a «HLV» based on the Unified Launch Vehicle.

The recently launched Land Degradation Neutrality Fund is the first - of - its - kind investment vehicle dedicated to implementing the SDGs by leveraging public sector funds to raise private sector capital for sustainable land management and landscape restoration activities worldwide that bring multiple environment, economic and social benefits.

SpacePolicyOnline.com published an article summarizing the hearing, including the release of a report by the Tauri Group that forecasts a robust market for suborbital reusable launch vehicles (SRVs), that day.

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The seventy or so vehicles included at launch are dwarfed by the hundreds they are used to from the Gran Turismo.

Players can earn Metroid and Super Mario - themed vehicles cars by completing in - game challenges once the game launches.