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As Tesla continues to expand its product line, Tesla's production plan is also set to increase to a rate of 500,000 vehicles a year by 2018.

The e-tron SUV is just the first of many electric models that Audi is planning as it hopes to sell 800,000 electrified vehicles a year by 2025.

Not exact matches

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told an audience at South by Southwest that his timeline for sending a space vehicle to Mars could mark its first milestone early next year.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

Kia plans to more than double its Mexico output this year to 250,000 vehicles and aims to boost U.S. sales by 8 % to 699,000 vehicles.

You can take advantage of this by enrolling in a high - deductible healthcare plan where you're eligible to use a Health Savings Account — an investment vehicle where you can park thousands of pre-tax dollars every year ($ 3,350 for individuals and $ 6,750 for families).

Food vehicles are typically inspected at least once a year by a health department inspector, sometimes randomly.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

Shattered sunroofs have been reported in at least 208 models of vehicles representing 35 brands over the last 20 - plus years in the U.S., based on CR's analysis of the consumer complaints database maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Disruptive innovation: Tesla (TSLA) floored the German luxury car incumbents by commercializing an incredibly high - performance electric vehicle just seven years after the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?

We now expect record full - year ChoiceLease fleet growth of 7,500 vehicles, up by 1,000 units from our prior forecast.

Lamborghini, the sports car brand owned by Volkswagen AG, said it quit draping women around its Huracans about two years ago and is busy training male and female hosts to explain the vehicle's features at this year's Geneva event.

In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia models from the 2011 to 2013 model years.

Lease results benefited from fleet growth but were partially offset by higher maintenance costs on certain older model year vehicles and weather - related expenses.

The lease fleet increased by 1,700 vehicles year - to - date.

Tesla's vehicles already can assist drivers with highway driving, and the company has said its goal is for its cars to be fully autonomous by the end of this year.

Since 2010, Porsche has almost tripled its sales in China, where its sales trailed the U.S. last year by fewer than 100 vehicles.

Major carmakers will report December and full - year 2017 US sales this week, and the expectation is that the year will once again top 17 million in total vehicles moved, but not by much.

The female pedestrian, who has been identified by police as 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg, was walking outside of a crosswalk when she was struck by the Uber self - driving vehicle.

Maven is really three car - sharing services in one: a city - based service that rents GM vehicles by the hour through an app, another for urban apartment dwellers in Chicago and New York, and a peer - to - peer sharing service that started in Germany last year.

Beneficially, this should allow 2018 to be the year that we focused more on electric cars — they've had their thunder stolen by self - driving vehicles, which don't need to be electrified.

Oil demand will be squeezed by electric vehicles, fuel efficiency and ride - sharing in the years ahead.

Six years ago, a survey by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators estimated that more than 9 million cars in the United States had vanity plates.

Last August, a 15 - year - old in Mountville, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot in the head by a friend who was showing him a 9 mm pistol he had swiped from a vehicle a day earlier.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

Arnold says of the vehicle, one of three fruit - topped Toyota Prius hybrid cars operated by his 8 - year - old company, Greenling, an organic - food delivery service.

San Francisco - based Breeze, founded this year, offers customers week - by - week access to vehicles they can use to support jobs as drivers for Uber, Lyft and other sharing - economy platforms; co-founder Jeffrey Pang describes the service as an «equalizer» for those who want to get in on the action but don't have cars of their own.

Toyota is also working on solid - state batteries and said earlier this year it hopes to have them in electric vehicles by the early 2020s.

Last year, he told an Austrian magazine that he believes 10 % of new cars will be electric by 2020, and half by 2030 — one of the most bullish forecasts for electric vehicles on record.

By year - end the company expects to have the largest fleet of autonomous test vehicles of any automaker.

The glider kits spew so much pollution, that in one year, their emissions will be 13 times more than what VW «s emissions cheating vehicles would have spewed by 2025.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from about 5 percent now.

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.

A new study by Boston Consulting Group says the car - share industry will have a limited impact on vehicle sales over the next five years.»

Electric vehicle sales have been abysmally disappointing, making up only about 1 % of the annual global market; five years ago, there were predictions that we'd be headed toward 15 % to 20 % by now.

Chris Urmson, the director of the company's self - driving cars project, says he wants his 12 - year - old son to be able to ride in an autonomous vehicle by the time he reaches driving age.

Manufacturers of fully electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles will be the first to benefit, starting this year, followed by makers of commercial vehicles in 2020 and the wider car market by 2022.

A faster ramp - up of the battery plant would be crucial as Tesla has said it would respond to brisk demand for the Model 3 by tooling up its factories to build 500,000 vehicles a year in 2018, two years earlier than planned.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

Many analysts believe that by 2040, the global EV market could exceed 60 million vehicles sold per year.

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.

The delay, though, hasn't changed the company's ultimate goal to ramp up its total vehicle production to one million vehicles per year by 2020.

In Germany, new chief executive Matthias Mueller said he hopes the European recall of affected vehicles can begin in the new year and be completed by 2016, once VW's plan is approved by the German government.

Vehicle tracking is a growing market, Karonis says, and the company's sales have grown by «astronomical proportions» in the last year.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt said standards on model year 2022 to 2025 vehicles should be revised, reversing a decision on tighter standards put in place by the Obama administration in January 2017.

And nearly two years ago, it was sold to Galaxy Brand Holdings, an investment vehicle owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group (CG).

«It was less than a year ago that we revealed the Bolt EV concept and promised to deliver a long - range electric vehicle attainable by the masses,» GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said in a statement.

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To support the ramp of vehicle production to 500,000 cars a year by 2018, Tesla is focused on achieving the world's most automated manufacturing systems while ensuring its large factory workforce is trained in the advanced skills unique to Tesla's production processes.