Sentences with phrase «car engines running»

When you are waiting with a friend to cross a busy intersection, car engines running, horns honking and the city humming all around you, your brain is busy processing all those sounds.

This was because we were utilizing an estimate in Huber and Mills that «Burning $ 2 - a-gallon gasoline, the power generated by current hybrid - car engines runs about 35 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).»

Please do not leave your car engine running with the garage door closed.

Incidentally, local legislation prohibits — for very good environmental reasons, i e pollution — any car engine running on empty for more than 60 seconds.

Not exact matches

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

Since February, GM has recalled 2.6 million older - model Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other small cars because their ignitions can slip out of the «run» position and shut off the engine.

The switches in older - model small cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion can slip out of the «run» position and shut down the cars» engines.

Imagine you had a car that was barely running, and you took it down to the repair shop, and they told you that you needed a complete engine overhaul.

When you say god loves us, are you referring to cancer, AIDS, SIDS, babies getting run over by cars, priests molesting children, anyone molesting children, birds flying into a jet engine, the jet crashing after birds flew into its engine...?

He also said that there were issues when running the engine in the car because there are certain things that Honda can't test on the dyno.

That may seem like quite a lot, but when you consider the car is in running order with a 3.5 - litre Ford Cosworth HB V8 engine and is tied to not one but two F1 greats, it's surely a steal.

No, it even looks into whether the engine and other systems would work upside down, and it seems that — with some modification and a very specific environment to run in — an F1 car could do it.

He was eight - tenths faster than his teammate, but we didn't get a chance to see where he could have qualified as the team didn't bother running either car in Q2 thanks to a generous serving of engine penalties.

It wasn't the smoothest of days for Alonso though, with his Andretti - run McLaren car having to have a Honda engine change (something he's very familiar with now).

As well as one car for DragonSpeed, two will also be run by the SMP Racing squad - although they'll have twin - turbo V6 AER engines, whilst DragonSpeed is going to run a naturally - aspirated V8 Gibson unit.

Montoya's been driving the Chevrolet - powered, Penske - run car, with Servia at the wheel of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports» Honda - engined version.

To moan about Wenger is like running over to a car with smoke pouring out of the engine and say it failed to win a race due to bald tires.

Inevitably trips to the supermarket, the school run and the in - laws have to be taken and the soothing lull of the car engine is often enough to send even the most alert baby into dreamland.

It includes an engine car and other fun accessories like people, signs and houses, and your child's imagination will run wild as as they get to choose how they would like to build their railway.

We like to tell our son that a car needs gas to run and that he needs rest to drive his engine, too.

No, it's more like running an economic model than shoving a dipstick into your car engine.

The attempt to build an engine to run high speed on CSX tracks and keep the passenger cars appropriately heated / cooled was a colossal failure.

THE LAWS OF HEAT GO SMALL Car engines and batteries run because of the second law of thermodynamics, which appears to work, with just a little bending, for ultrasmall engines in the quantum realm as well.

The hybrid GE is developing with the marine engineering firm C - MAR works something like the upcoming Chevy Volt car, which uses an electric motor as its primary drive and carries a small combustion engine to charge batteries that run low.

After fixing the molecular engine to the car's chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the engine was running by using nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the position of the hydrogen atoms within it.

Oil production may fall in 10 years — not because it is running out but because electric cars will be cheaper and gasoline engines will be better

Had they not been run by crooks, chances are that the internal combustion engine would not have dominated the 20th century (see «How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years»).

Imagine a car that runs minus not only an engine, but without most parts under the hood.

Volkswagen and EPA have not yet disclosed how the defeat software manipulated performance in VW engines, but it may have run cars richer on testing rigs, cutting NOx emissions and keeping regulators happy, while running lean on the road, improving fuel economy and keeping customers happy.

Similar to a stationary car with its engine running, the internal rotation (the engine, in this case) does not translate into motion before the clutch is released.

Plug - in hybrids are cars that would be built to run primarily on an electric battery, but if extra power were needed for a long drive, a gasoline engine would kick in.

And, like the engine in your car, we have a lot of say in how efficiently it runs.

In other words, tuning the engine works when that's the only problem with the car; if something else is wrong, then you car will not run properly.

Car fights, fist fights, gun fights, explosions, all perfectly timed and keeping the engine running.

While having a check engine indicator go off won't tell you what is wrong with your car, she said, it does suggest that «opening the hood and figuring out what is wrong» will save time and money in the long run.

Colorado City, Ariz. • The train is running again in Cottonwood Park — the small engine pulling kids in miniature cars on the thin tracks of steel that circle the park.

Like any full hybrid, the 300h can run on electric power at low speeds for short distances; an EV mode, activated via Drive Mode Select, raises the threshold where the car transitions to engine power.

Honestly, I wouldn't care if this car ran on two - stroke engine oil and all of the buttons had Cyrillic characters printed on them.

The OEM battery in my 2008 Jetta SE 2.5 L has been nearly fully discharged one month back (had insufficient surface charge after a prolonged use without the engine running, but leaving it idle for 20 minutes made the car start again), then worked fine for a few days afterwards (but without being subjected to much charge), but then was discharged again after only a quarter of the prior abuse (since it was probably not fully charged since the prior discharge, me underestimating the driving time it would take to bring the battery back to fuller life, plus possibly missing out on water, as I found out later).

The electric powertrain ran out around 25 miles into the journey, not unexpected at highway speeds, but the car will still run in electric mode with the engine providing battery power instead of actual propulsive force if need be.

But a car doesn't always run at 6000 RPM, so it may be that Engine B has better acceleration as the engine goes through the rev Engine B has better acceleration as the engine goes through the rev engine goes through the rev range.

On many cars this computer will nowadays run the starter engine for as long time as it takes (or a fail timeout), so you don't have to press the button (or turn the key) until the engine starts, but instead the computer determines when the engine is running.

While the car hasn't been driven with any sort of frequency since the «70s, H&H estimates the 3.8 - liter inline - six engine hasn't run in 15 years.

I liked the car it's a great ride and didn't have to many problems with it and the engine is just bullet proof you can't go wrong with this car for its price range and will keep on running for you Read full review

There are mineral oils markete d as being for bike use (3 - in - 1 for example) that would probably allow a sufficiently old car (i.e. designed to tolerate a wide range of oils) to run without completely ruining the engine immediately.

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Remember cars with power steering or power assisted brakes may be much harder to drive if the engine is not running, so take care.

- If the car is running or the engine is warm when you get there ask if you can come back tomorrow to see it again.

The auxiliary one is used for after the car is turned off (I'm assuming it runs when the fans run to circulate the coolant when the engine has stopped running).

That's why I bought a hybrid that has electric AC pump running independently of engine speed and the alternator is actually a very beefy motor - generator; this car has no traditional alternator.