Showing posts with label automotive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automotive. Show all posts
Monday, 6 September 2021

The tube is back to 50% of its pre-pandemic weekday usage levels

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 "For some, this is alarming, threatening to repeat past spirals of decline: fewer trains means many journeys become less viable, and r...
Thursday, 26 September 2019

Americans spend on average 50 minutes a day behind the wheel

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"For the time being, new car sales are trending up — believe it or not. The AAA says Americans spend 50 minutes behind the wheel each d...
Tuesday, 27 March 2018

Kia's conversion rate is 3x higher with its chatbot than with its website

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"At last count, Kia had more than 800 websites where a customer can ask about buying a car. In November, to try and simplify the proce...
Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Dockless bike sharing schemes in Shenzhen have led to a 13% fall in petrol consumption

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"Before the advent of dockless bike-sharing in Chinese cities cycling accounted for 5.5 percent of transport miles. It has now more tha...
Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Waymo's autonomous vehicles have driven 4 million miles

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"Waymo continues to press its lead in terms of actual miles driven on roads, which is potentially the most important metric out there w...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Tesla 'spends less than $6 on advertising per car sold'

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"Car makers spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote their products. Anyone who has ever watched the TV series Mad M...
Monday, 3 April 2017

Human drivers need to take control of Uber's self-driving cars about once per mile

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"Human drivers were forced to take control of Uber's self-driving cars about once per mile driven in early March during testing in ...

Alfa Romeo sold 350 cars in 33 seconds on Alibaba's Tmall

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"Luxury auto brand Alfa Romeo on Tuesday forged an exclusive strategic partnership with Alibaba’s Tmall to market and sell its cars onl...
Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Tesla's 'Autopilot' results in 40% fewer crashes

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"Tesla’s driver-assistance features, known collectively as Autopilot, have been vindicated. The U.S. Department of Transportation has ...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

Singles Day 2016 generated $17.8bn for Alibaba sites

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"That’s another blockbuster in the books. The 2016 11.11 Global Shopping Festival just ended. Final GMV tally: RMB 120.7 billion ($17.8...
Monday, 4 April 2016

Tesla's Model 3 recieved 180,000 pre-orders within 24 hours of launch

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"Tesla’s Model 3 car drew huge numbers of reservations ahead of its official launch, an auspicious start for the car that aims to make ...
Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Tesla sold 51,000 cars in 2015

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"Tesla announced on Sunday morning that the company shipped 50,580 cars in 2015, hitting the low- to mid-range of its target for the ye...
Monday, 11 January 2016

Demand for technology to be built into next vehicle in the US

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Source:   Parks Associates, 29th December 2015

Alibaba set 9 Guinness world Records on Singles Day 2015

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"How big can Alibaba’s annual Single’s Day shopping fest get? Guinness World Records big. This year the Chinese e-commerce giant set ni...
Tuesday, 29 September 2015

The AA in the UK attends 17,000 warning light-related calls-outs a month

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"Hundreds of thousands of cars will find new owners over the next two months but the joy of a replacement vehicle can be cut short when...
Monday, 7 September 2015

Using a mix of public transport and Uber can be cheaper than owning a car

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"Consider a household that makes about 2,000 vehicle trips per year, in line with the national average. (If that sounds like a lot of t...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

'Keyless' car theft accounts for 42% of all vehicle thefts in London

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"Thousands of cars from a host of manufacturers have spent years at risk of electronic car-hacking, according to expert research that V...

Tesla loses over $4,000 on every Model S it sells

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"All-electric carmaker Tesla is losing over $4,000 on every Model S it sells and reported an operational loss of $359 million during th...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Ford sold 29,000 cars in the US in 2013 through its mobile site

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"Forty percent of Ford’s Web traffic comes from mobile. Mr. Farley said that much of it comes from prospective buyers walking car lots ...
Thursday, 7 August 2014

Knowledge and understanding of new technology in the UK

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Source:   Ofcom's 2014 Communications Market Report, released 7th August 2014 More  here