Sentences with phrase «car battery lasts»

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

How can I make sure my car battery lasts?

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For starters, the cost of an electric car battery — the most expensive component — dropped 35 % last year alone.

The epic views lasted until the car's battery died, which Musk had warned was likely to happen 12 hours after launch.

When electric - car maker Tesla touched off a multistate bidding war for its Gigafactory battery plant last year, most of the attention focused on the tax breaks and other incentives states were offering.

The innovative entrepreneur has been busy building electric cars and batteries with Tesla and overseeing space travel with SpaceX in the last few years, although Musk had also announced plans to build a test track in Texas in January.

Last week, a Porsche product manager, in touting the company's all electric Mission E, claimed that Tesla's Ludicrous Mode is just a «facade» because of how quickly it drains the car's battery.

The battery life should last the life cycle of one baby in the car seat.

These batteries are a mature technology, and last week Elon Musk announced plans to spend $ 2 billion on a «Gigafactory» to develop huge quantities of them for his electric car firm Tesla Motors.

Last year, Republican presidential candidate John McCain made a $ 300 million prize for improved electric car batteries a plank in his environmental platform.

Last year the car battery turned glamorous: Hybrid hysteria invigorated the faltering auto industry, and General Motors touted its upcoming plug - in hybrid, the Chevy Volt, at every opportunity.

These huge, long - lasting batteries have many requirements that everyday phone, computer or car batteries do not have, and they need to meet safety and cost standards unlike those of other batteries.

Long - lasting electric car batteries.

This was the last weekend before the wedding, and it was full of errands and unexpectedly getting a dead car battery replaced.

Almost garnering a recommendation just for the sight of Lisa Marie getting zapped by a car battery and shot to death (thereby almost justifying the interminable minutes spent suffering her extraordinarily inept performance), One Last Score is that movie about an ex-con who tries to make good but is pulled in for the titular blue - sky promise.

Last week, Jaguar Land Rover confirmed that all new production models launched after 2020 would feature some form of electrification, from mild hybrids to full battery electric cars.

The car's lithium - ion battery pack is also physically smaller, so it takes up less trunk space than in the last Accord Hybrid.

The negative connection to the recipient car is the last connection made and it is made to a metal grounded part, not to the negative battery terminal (so that you can remove the connection without risking hydrogen explosion caused by a spark near the battery)

I have a 2006 fully loaded VW Touareg with 110,000 miles it's a 4.2 V8 4 cam and has been serviced r put on the Dealer cumputer every 10k and I Change my on oil I run Mobil one super syn hi mileage now the 15 k oil but I used the 10 k till 70 k but I changed it when the temp changed we have 105 summers and it's humid as hell in ne bama but I d change oil and filter every 6 months r 7 k miles and new canister filter I like the k & n but use pureoillater LOL gold and had set of 255 55 18s last 70k miles but rotated and had balenced every 3 k and run nitrogen in them just put second set on it and had to put new sealed battery under seat heat killed mine that's been my biggest two probs the Mich tires I put on were 1700 $ but worth it and bat 279 but if you service your car change trans fluid and filter every 50 k and at 70 changed diff frnt and back now I looking how to put my radio code in tomorrow I have xm sat and 11 speaker 12 +1 CD player and I went with e3 plugs last time change every 35 k and my mpg with borla cat backs k & n cold air and the e 3 plugs and 10 mm wires is 25 hwy but you stand in it she ll drink baby but it is the safest nicest car / SUV made bring your Cheyenne on ur BMW x3 r Merc I ll tear you a new one in side LOL make them look like a honda compared and looked wat better mines light green pearl with big wide 18s and I ll drag your jacked up Chevy around I have one with 450 hp and 35s z71 o8 and I ll raise up the VW and it will drag u don tha road and rides like a 550 Merc I rode in a 4 door and fast as hell mine runs 12.9 107 1/4 mile and I think it will run the same at 300k best car anyone that every sat in it has said but I take car of a 50k ride it has to last and I have a friend with VW cumputer and I know cars but can't put the radio code in well can now read how a min ago, mines never poped a trouble code knock on wood and I m almost 110 k take care of your Cars and say good things if you can't afford to maintain one don't buy it hell most 20 year olds can't change oil and run castrol gtx LOL was great 20 years ago Mobil one!!!! VW Touarg lover baby get somcars but can't put the radio code in well can now read how a min ago, mines never poped a trouble code knock on wood and I m almost 110 k take care of your Cars and say good things if you can't afford to maintain one don't buy it hell most 20 year olds can't change oil and run castrol gtx LOL was great 20 years ago Mobil one!!!! VW Touarg lover baby get somCars and say good things if you can't afford to maintain one don't buy it hell most 20 year olds can't change oil and run castrol gtx LOL was great 20 years ago Mobil one!!!! VW Touarg lover baby get some!!!

The car batteries as a home power source is not even implemented it was still theoretical when they visited our company last year.

As the electric racer only needs to last the 12.5 miles of the hill climb, the batteries will only cover a distance of approximately 15 miles when the car is driven at full speed.

Also, consider this: if a battery lasts for 5 years, and you start your car twice per day, it's 700 starts per year or 3500 starts total.

I changed the battery twice, with the last one installed in a few weeks ago, and since then the most I have left the car...

When there is significant cycling the car battery wont last as long as it would in its float life.

@Zaid, Richard Martin is explaining, through his experience, that the negative croc clip should be connected last - well away from the battery on a good earth point to the chassis / engine and HE is correct... I have had to help a colleague who had a battery explode on him and 3 cars covered in acid... So, my point is that he has give a correct answer, not just views...

I bought the car new, I like the car but, the original tires only lasted 33k miles, had to replace the battery after 3 years, and had to fix the drivers side door latch 2 time's moRe than $ 300 for that... Read full review

I disconnected the battery last night and drove the car after a cold start in the morning.

The battery - life meter dipped more quickly than we expected, predicting a total range of only about 100 kilometers (60 - ish miles) by the end, versus the promised 150 kilometers, but that reflects several short and aggressive journalist - helmed test drives in cold weather, the last factor being particularly important, since this car lacks the sort of liquid heating elements found in the Volt.

Critics raised concerns over the durability of Tesla Model S battery packs last year after a car in Washington caught fire.

The last we heard was that this car had gotten the green light, possibly with a battery upgrade over the existing BMW i8 hybrid sports coupe.

It's not dissimilar to Pininfarina's last significant saloon concept, the Cambiano of 2012, though that car was entirely battery - powered, with an electric motor for each wheel.

ICE is dying and is in the last throws of life Electric cars whether you like it or not or whether it will be Tesla leading the charge (sic) or not are now reaching a tipping point because of technology advances in their motors and batteries I now currently run a leased Model s after being a petrol head all of my life and I am afraid to say that it has fundamentally changed the way I regard normal ice cars.

Until last fall, Mitsubishi was getting only 2,000 batteries a month from LEJ because the supplier was splitting production at one factory between batteries for the Outlander plug - in and batteries for Mitsubishi's i electric car.

When I purchased the car, I had and idea of the kind of gas mileage and space I would need to get me from point A to point B. I don't like that the hybrid battery is going to have to be replaced sometime in the future with a higher price tag, but for the past 30,000 miles, it has lasted.

The Nissan Leaf battery pack is expected to last around a decade, and servicing is significantly less than a conventional car.

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I think that improvements in battery tech will make this concept obsolete pretty soon (except maybe in high - performance cars), but as a last hooray of the ICE, why not?

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Below are a few signs that you car's battery is on its last leg.

Your car or truck's battery is not intended to last the lifespan of the ride, and we recommend making battery tests a part of your regular maintenance plan if your vehicle is five or more years old.

In an ideal environment with no outside variables, a car battery could last for up to 6 years.

Even the seemingly complex IS 300h shouldn't be a cause for concern though: its electric motor technology has been proven in many Toyota and Lexus models and its batteries are designed to last the life of the car.

In Arlington, car batteries typically last around three years due to the excessive heat during the summer months, leaving many drivers in need of battery replacement sooner than intended.

The new battery electric vehicle should have received the name eQ, but last month the company announced that drops all plans for selling the car.

Although some reassurance can be taken from Peugeot's claim that the hybrid's batteries will last up to 15 years, the standard Peugeot 508 has a middling reputation for general reliability, coming 83rd out of 150 cars in our 2016 Driver Power customer satisfaction survey.

Another German version of non-sense «Electric turbo» design, invented by Porsche last year in 1st eHybrid model, with no decent all electric mode for this type of car heavy sporty car (136HP only, and 14KWH battery!).

With a proven reliability record garnered over some 60 billion kilometres of driving worldwide, the high quality Hybrid Synergy Drive ® battery is designed to last the entire life of the car.

If the batteries weren't on their last legs, he could gun it in reverse and probably get free, but the car had given up the ghost.

While these frames will most likely be hang on a wall at home (it will be easy to hand them, too), they can also be placed on your car, in restaurants, on windows - and wherever you like as there's no need for a power source (the battery should last for over a year).

I was watching a show about electric and other kinds of cars last night and I came away thinking that carbon fiber and lithium batteries might really make a big difference.