Sentences with phrase «years vehicles did»

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If you build fewer than 100,000 vehicles a year, it doesn't make sense to manufacture in China, says Steve Man, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in Hong Kong.

«Secondly, they're borrowing to finance cars and trucks because most Canadians just don't have the money to pay for a vehicle outright anymore, and finally, for student loans, which is another big - ticket item that if they haven't saved for a few years, they will have to get loans for.»

However, its automotive gross margin, which doesn't include the sale of zero - emission vehicle credits, dropped to 13.8 % from 22.2 % in the same period last year.

«This is not a vehicle we developed for the U.S. and then said, «We will see how it does in China,»» a Ford group vice president told the Los Angeles Times this 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.

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.

For investors who do not relish life on the edge, a few exchange - traded funds have launched in the past year targeting the autonomous and electric vehicles trend.

GM bought Cruise for about half a billion in 2016, and Cruise as a GM division acquired a California - based laser - radar (Lidar) startup, Strobe Inc. last year for an undisclosed sum, with the idea that Lidars units don't need to be what Strobe CEO Julie Schoenfeld called a «spinning Kentucky Fried Chicken» bucket atop a vehicle.

Venture capital firms are ten - year vehicles for investors, but that doesn't mean that all companies will be ten years old when they return on the investment.

That said, Tesla did beat its 2017 delivery target of 100,000 vehicles total, delivering 101,315 for the year.

However, trade experts said that American companies had not come close to meeting their existing quota last year, and that American carmakers had not done enough to tailor their products for South Korean consumers, who prefer smaller vehicles.

Almost five years after its initial public offering raised $ 226 million, Tesla still emphasizes non-GAAP financial results and does not report detailed vehicle sales by market.

This vehicle allows you to put money or highly appreciated securities into the account, take the deduction in the year that you do so, but then gift the money or investments to your favorite charity whenever you want.

how comfortable do you feel in a vehicle that you've owned for over ten years... does the person need a new car every five years?

Despite the expected decline in sales, auto makers are likely to sell at least 50,000 more sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickups than they did last year, while car sales will likely drop by 250,000 this year, Merlis predicted.

Every year you probably service your vehicle and see your doctor for your annual checkup, but do you ever give any thought to your estate plan?

Since Tesla didn't start delivering Model 3 until the second half of 2017, Model 3 accounted for all of Tesla's year - over-year growth in vehicle deliveries.

If all three did get built, it's also possible that they may only be in peak usage for the next 10 - 15 years, as it's also possible that electric vehicles could be in widespread use by the late 2020s or early 2030s.

While Tesla hypes up its self - driving cars that don't deserve the name, GM is preparing to deploy fully autonomous vehicles next year.

General Motors rode sales of SUVs and pickup trucks in North America to a record profit in 2015, and the automaker reaffirmed its expectation to do better this year despite signs that vehicle sales are hitting a peak.

There seems to be lots of discussion about making sure a taxi has rear seatbelts to be able to use car seats however I imagine most of these are older vehicles that don't have the latches for car seats — my kids are 2.5 years old so out of the infant buckets.

Did you know that most vehicles on our roads are more than 11 - years - old?

From comments on the Barnardos Ireland Facebook page it is evident there are people who will not be taking part in the event this year as it has become an advertising vehicle for the Cow & Gate brand, which raises the question, did the board conduct due diligence on the ethics of this sponsorship deal and the reputational harm it will suffer?»

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

Having harnessed his skills over the ensuing years, he does not wish to impose his views, but sees theatre as a vehicle to allow for a coveted moments pause.

In fact you can argue that this administration's done more against the Pakistani Taliban with the Drones and UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicle) that the president a year ago authorized to be used.

Nor does it specify how the $ 1.5 billion a year — from hefty surcharges on cars, trucks and for - hire vehicles to drive in congested areas of Manhattan — will actually be spent to improve city subways and buses.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

America may have got much wrong but it didn't quit: «In the early days in Iraq we bragged that our forces could deploy in berets and soft - sided vehicles while US forces roared through Baghdad in heavily armoured convoys... If a fair - minded account of the Iraq war is written, credit should go to President Bush for rejecting two years ago the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that called for force reductions.

And his falling asleep at a Town Board meeting and flipping a town - owned vehicle earlier this year were definitely causes for concern (though Mr. Rallis didn't even raise those issues during his campaign).

We're now talking 13 years to do one launch vehicle, and it's going to be based on hardware that is 30 and 40 years old.

So the most that cars will do, at least for the next few years, is apply light braking and steering and prepare the vehicle for impact by, depending on make and model, tightening up seat belts, unlocking doors, and turning on the hazard lights.

After many claims and statements over the past few years that Voyager 1, our most distant operating spacecraft, has «left the solar system» (it hasn't, as I explain here), it does now seem that as of August 2012 this extraordinary vehicle has entered the interstellar medium.

«I have been doing this for 15 years, I have seen vehicles burn, but I have never seen anything of this magnitude,» said Justin Correll, who commanded one of the fire engines on the scene.

It doesn't share its figures on them (though starting with model year 2011 vehicles, the EPA began including SUVs and vans — but not trucks — above the 8,500 pound limit in its passenger vehicle category).

P. Graham Mortyn writes in the journal Environmental Science and Technology (vol 46, p 6448): «As a native Californian with approximately 10 years of European living and driving experience, I write on that personal favorite of British inventions — the roundabout — and what it might do for reduced vehicle emissions.»

Do you think Europe will develop its own human - rated space capsule / vehicle in the next ten years?

Of course, from a scientific point of view, it doesn't matter if the two spacecraft are launched together on a single vehicle or launched a few years apart on separate boosters, so one can let cost and programmatic considerations decide whether or not to use SLS.

Though the auto industry has introduced more electric vehicles powered by natural resources over the years, restrictions on battery size have kept commercial airplanes from doing the same.

We struggled for a couple of years with transporting them around together in one vehicle because we didn't own one big enough for six people.

I am 43 years old Caucasian women I am five foot tall honest, sincere, clean no disease no drugs I don't smokeI have job and vehicle, have 2 kids 16 and 18.

But before the finger pointing starts, let's be serious — the «Die Hard in a (insert location / building / vehicle / mountain range)» has been doing the rounds for years — since DIE HARD, in fact — and it was only a matter of time before someone thought of placing the action in the White House.

The actor flirted with fame after that, but didn't have his movie stardom certified until the mid-1990s when he followed his Oscar - winning turn in Leaving Las Vegas with high - profile action vehicles that until a few years ago were often profitable.

Kristen Bell fares just as poorly as the repressed stay - at - home mom who struggles to find her voice in her marriage, trying to drum up laughs in a bra - shaming sequence that is almost identical to the one she was involved in just in the last year in her role in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle, The Boss — that it's Kunis's character, the most fashionable of the three moms (the one with perfect hair, make - up and 5 - inch designer heels) who wears doesn't know her bra isn't sexy only speaks to the film's laboring to force comedy without build - up.

«The Young Victoria» was designed to be Emily Blunt's breakthrough vehicle — but while it did her career no real harm, the real discovery of an otherwise tepid film was 28 year - old Rupert Friend.

Here, Brady returns to Hollywood's big leagues five years since last helming a Rob Schneider vehicle and he does so with a number of his Hot Chick cast members including Matthew Lawrence («Boy Meets World») and Melora Hardin (NBC's «The Office»).

I did say this is a buddy vehicle, and it co-stars Colin Hanks as Troy Gabel, a 2nd year law student who drops out of school at the point of departure without telling his father (Tom Hanks) to pursue his dream of becoming a writer.

Director Allan Moyle, who had previously written and directed the 1990 Christian Slater pirate radio vehicle Pump Up the Volume, has done almost nothing of note in years; he seems to have only rebounded slightly from hitting rock bottom on the 2004 made - for - TV Michael Jackson biopic Man in the Mirror.

Essentially a bunch of sketches tied to the narrative thread of the road trip to end all road trips (until they all did it again in National Lampoon's European Vacation two years later), Vacation provided Chase with the perfect comedy vehicle.

I have a one year old daughter; it is distinctly possible that she does not need to learn how to drive when she grows up because self - driving vehicles will be the norm.