Google has spent considerable effort building an electric car fleet at its Silicon Valley headquarters.
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If they were smart, they would switch over their car fleet to natural gas, and import it from nearby Qatar.
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More recently, she grabbed the spotlight again after deciding to sell her presidential jet and downsize the government's car fleet.
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The gating item, he thinks, will be how long it takes for the service to infiltrate the U.S. new car fleet.
What about the 1.2 million tires on the 300, 000 cars that are in the Hertz rental car fleet at any one time?
That same year, 12, 435 people in the U.S. were killed in car crashes, though the U.S. passenger car fleet is five times larger than Brazil's.
"New Zealand has the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient car fleet in the whole of the developed world, " said Jeannette Fitzsimons, co-leader of the Green Party, which is a member of the coalition government.
Unsafe cars, coupled with the South American nation's often dangerous driving conditions, have resulted in a Brazilian death rate from passenger car accidents that is nearly four times that of the United States, according to an Associated Press analysis of Brazilian Health Ministry data on deaths compared to the size of each country's car fleet.
Additionally, the U.S. car rental business came under pressure from fleet constraints and associated efforts by rental car companies to drive up pricing.
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Yes, the company's North American market share is down, but that was deliberate--Ford's CEO decided not to aggressively pursue virtually profitless sales to the rental-car and government-fleet vehicle markets.
It will meet the needs of car park operators, fleet managers and municipalities that require greater control of energy usage or the smart functionality necessary to collect payments and monitor usage.
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But, these were offset by the recovery in residential investment and consumer spending on durable goods which was boosted in part by an aging auto fleet feeding new car sales.
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Finally, several members of Congress have proposed an even more ambitious incentive program to increase car sales while modernizing our auto fleet.
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He recalled asking a regional fleet manager to make a car available to a mom blogger.
Excluding sales to fleet buyers such as rental car companies, Honda is No. 1, said Mike Acavitti, senior vice president of marketing for American Honda.
If the car makers can position themselves as the fleet manager, they could recapture the profits because they would have control over the service, the repairs and everything else.
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Spokesman Nick Richards blames the slow growth on a cut in low-profit sales to fleet buyers such as rental car companies as GM tries to boost the brand's resale values.
But people are thinking about cars probably for the first time since the beginning of the last century and what they need in their fleet, whether they want a car at all.
And as a sign of the broad support behind this plan, we are joined by the representatives from more than a dozen car and truck manufacturers, as well as fleet operators, auto workers, labor leaders, environmental groups, and officials from California and other states.
On Sunday nights Jerry puts the press car in a garage for pick up by the fleet guys on Monday.
The growth potential is enormous: One out of every seven Brazilians owns a car, while the U.S. vehicle fleet covers nearly every American.
What's more, that loaner will be a top-of-the-line Model S regardless of the car you turn in (there's a fleet of 85 to start with, each with valet service to your location), and customers in "most markets" can also opt to get a Tesla Roadster as a loaner if they'd prefer to try out something sportier.
Chuck Jacobus's 11-year-old minivan, for instance, may not perform perfectly, but Team Cybernet wants to prove it can retrofit its robotic technology onto any car, even the U.S. Army's aging fleet, whose vehicles Jacobus says are an average of 13 years old.
But as the federal tailpipe emissions deadline nears, car makers are having to come up with ways to balance out their fleet averages.
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If China and India alone develop to the point where car ownership reaches the level of Europe, we will triple the global automobile fleet.
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"The change in the law means I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to afford my car, especially when I go to university, " said Miss Bond, from Fleet in Hampshire.
Certainly, it seems better to have one fleet with two potential outlets for it (both the regular rental and the car sharing) than it does to have two separate fleets each with their own specific downtime.
Zipcar has thrown a monkey wrench in the traditional car rental business over the last few years, and it currently serves over 673K members with a fleet of over 9K vehicles.
Google's fleet of about eight cars uses sophisticated sensors and the company's mapping data to locate the car precisely and plot a route.
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