Sentences with phrase «average car battery»

The average car battery lasts between 2 and 5 years, depending on your local climate and how you care for your battery.

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That's still a little pricey for the average buyer, but it's way cheaper than most electric cars because the purchase doesn't include the vehicle's most expensive part: the battery.

The goal is to get batteries to power a car of average cost on a 500 - mile trip.

There was no display to watch the energy flow amongst the engine, the battery pack, and the regenerative brakes (it's included with the navigation option, which this car didn't have), but I was able to monitor instant and average fuel economy via a readout in the gauge cluster; there's also a light that comes on to indicate when you're in EV mode.

The batteries fared even worse in the cold — at 20 degrees, the cars» average range dipped to just 43 miles, which is 57 percent below the range seen in moderate temperatures.

1) You obviously don't own one nor do you know of what you speak 2) Because if you did you'd know seeing how yours would be one of them that now 92 % of all S's sold wind up in the shop for major repairs on average of four times or more per annum 3) And you'd also be aware of all the serious Li issues with TESLA's in temps below 42f or above 80f 4) And you'd know one 3.5 second [get the numbers accurate] blast in a TESLA will use up 805 of your batteries capacity 5) Not to mention the majority of all S's sold wind up on a used car lot within 18 months of purchase... because they are such a pile of techno wonder garbage

Batteries performance will improve at about 10 % / year (average) and by 2015 or 2020 their energy storage and power gains will be 50 % to 100 % and even more, making a multi-speed transmission extra luggage, except for race cars and heavy trucks / buses.

* NEW TIRES *, * NEW BATTERY *, * MOONROOF *, * BLUETOOTH *, * HEATED SEATS *, * REAR VIEW CAMERA *, * AUX INPUT *, * USB INPUT *, * POWER DOOR LOCKS *, * POWER WINDOWS *, * CLOTH SEATS *, * MANUAL SEATS *, * ACCIDENT FREE *, * BUY HAPPY CAR WASHES *.2011 Kia SorentoLX FWD 6 - Speed Automatic with Sportmatic 2.4 L I4 DOHC Dual CVVTOdometer is 30057 miles below market average!

These consist of: a charge / assist gauge, which indicates whether the hybrid system's electric motor is assisting the gasoline engine or whether the battery is being recharged; an ECO light, which shows when the car's instant gas mileage is meeting or exceeding the average EPA rating; and an Autostop readout on the tachometer, which indicates that the engine has been cut during idling.

I know this, because although my week in the car heavily featured 70 mph highway driving, a scenario in which the Prius c sucks down fuel with no respite to catch its breath on battery power, I still achieved a 45 mpg average.

Current batteries for these cars can easily store the energy for driving the national average commute — about 33 miles round trip a day, so the study presumes that drivers would charge up overnight when demand for electricity is much lower.

And the average electric / battery car, today, gets almost exactly the same range as its counterparts at the start of the last century — about 70 miles (and far less when the heater, or A / C, is used.

Seizing on Lomborg's figures, Fox Business» Stuart Varney claimed that «the battery powered cars are just as bad for the environment as your average sedan — even worse!»

The average police car drains two 12 - volt batteries a year due to all of the electronics and lights it has to operate.