Sentences with phrase «car than the scaled»

This Lincoln's dimensions are on the grand side as well, and the result is more like a full - size big car than the scaled - up little car that some of the chassis hardware might suggest.

Not exact matches

Before self - driving cars can be deployed on a mass scale they need to be able to do more than recognize objects in the surrounding environment; they also need to be able to communicate with other vehicles.

Apple may be pursuing mainly auto industry expertise rather than full - scale partnerships with established car companies.

Wang, ranked the 39th richest mainlander by Forbes, defined BYD as more than just a manufacturer of batteries and cars, pushing hard his message that BYD will take advantage of the increasing demand for new - energy vehicles to expand scale.

But rather than using that scale to crush the competition, he has spearheaded an effort called Apollo, aimed at making the advancement of self - driving car technology an open, collaborative process.

«As the number continues to climb to something approaching 4,000 - 5,000, we think Model 3 gross margins should turn profitable, which doesn't indicate it will meet long - term targets, but should prove to be better than the more bearish expectations of the car being EBIT - negative, even at scale,» Arnson and Erickson said.

Rather than starting off your dating profile by trying to sell yourself like a used car advert, you simply need to answer the questions honestly, work out where you sit on the scale and what things you value above others.

Because they're so small, you'll experience «scale speed» — 40 mph feels like 80 when you're behind the wheel of a car that's so much smaller than everything else on the road.

Speaking at the car's launch, John Hennessy, CEO said «We expect the Venom F5, named for the most powerful tornado speed winds on the Fujita scale, to be the first road car capable of achieving more than 300mph and have worked closely with Pennzoil to get us across the finish line».

Things stay close on the scale as well, with the Model 3 Long Range weighing in at 3,814 pounds while the smaller battery reduces weight by nearly 300 pounds to 3,549; slightly more than half of that bulk sits in the rear half of the car, with distribution checking in at 47/53 percent f / r for regular Model 3s and 48/52 for Long Range ones.

The irony is nearly every car in the compact class has far more style than you'll find further up the automotive evolutionary scale.

The 2015 Kia Soul EV's battery pack weighs 620 pounds, and the entire car tips the scales at 489 pounds heavier than its gasoline - powered counterpart.

Fisker is claiming a top speed of 161mph and according to Fisker the EMotion will tip the scales 20 % lighter than «other cars its size».

This is drastically different from the 8C's 450 - horsepower, 4.7 - liter V - 8, but should provide compelling performance in a car that could weigh less than 2000 pounds (the X-Bow tips the scales at a svelte 1540 pounds).

The weight savings of its aluminium construction help it tip the scales at 200 kg less than the S63, and the car sprints from 0 - 60mph in a mere 4.1 seconds — three - tenths faster.

The car is expected to be lighter than the previous model, tipping the scales at 3497 lb.

The new Civic feels more like a 7 / 8 - scale Accord than an entry - level compact car.

BMW's Integral Active Steering can turn the rear wheels to tighten things up even more; the effect isn't quite as scale - shrinking as in the B7, where you could easily come to believe you're driving a 5 Series sized car, but it definitely leaves the M760i far more nimble than you'd expect.

At over 206 inches in length and tipping the scales at more than two tons, the 2018 BMW 7 Series certainly has the size and weight of a full - size luxury sedan, yet it's every bit as nimble and athletic as one would expect of a car wearing the blue - and - white propeller badge.

Additionally, the LEAF is manufactured on a much more massive scale than any other fully electric car available.

At the other end of the on / off - road scale is the Ignis, much more an «urban» SUV — a car riding somewhat higher than a typical light hatch, but an SUV still featuring drive to the front wheels only.

It encompasses all sorts of outstanding stunts and achievements over the years: towing trains, scaling dam walls, tackling giant speed bumps and racing 999 steps up a mountainside in an SUV that's faster than a sports car.

As a result, the limited - run sports car is 15 kg lighter than the car it's based on, tipping the scales at just 902 kg (unladen) or 862 kg in the lightest possible dry configuration — making possible a power - to - weight ratio of 290 hp / tonne.

Tipping the scales at 1,099 kg (2,423 lbs) the special edition model is 26 kg (57 lbs) lighter than the car it's based on.

The interior is massive (to give some idea of scale, the SRT is a bigger, heavier car by all measures — except overall width — than Holden's long - wheelbase Caprice), a fact passengers are reminded of when simply reaching out to shut the doors.

The result is 260 - horsepower of motivation for a car that tips the scales at just less than 3,000 pounds.

It's important to remember that this is not a small car in either mass or volume: our xDrive model tips the scales at more than 4,600 pounds and stretches nearly 17 feet.

Buying a $ 12,000 vehicle and putting $ 2,000 in front of a car salesperson will probably tip the scales in your favor than if you sit down empty - handed.

starting off with a lambo and getting a ferrari after a couple races seems so arcade no matter how real the racing is plus theres no scale of what makes a super car better than any other car

The replay angles of the car are rather hit and miss and certainly gravitate more towards the «gamey» end of the scale rather than trying to mimic any TV replays which we are so fond of here at TeamVVV.

Another series of Cellules in a somewhat more furniture - or tent - like scale is included, which one associates more with space travel or concept cars than the practical, albeit minimal living of the larger series.

With the unveiling of India's $ 2,500 Nano car, and my post last night looking ahead to the near - certain prospect of a global car population of 1 billion or more within little more than a decade, Prof. Ausubel sent me links to a couple of papers he co-authored awhile back envisioning green mobility on a global scale.

If the rapid pulse of urbanization under way in developing countries ends up producing cities that resemble car - dependent Atlanta more than compact Barcelona, as one presentation showed, consider the difference in the scale of environmental consequences:

What concerns me is less the mechanics of the transition — the shift from brown to green energy, from sole - rider cars to mass transit, from sprawling exurbs to dense and walkable cities — than the power and ideological roadblocks that have so far prevented any of these long understood solutions from taking hold on anything close to the scale required.

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

The awarded projects — including 22 utility - scale solar farms, three wind farms and one hydroelectric project — are expected to create more than 3,000 short - and long - term jobs, generate enough clean energy to power more than 430,000 homes and reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tons, the equivalent of taking nearly 340,000 cars off the road.

Actions like recycling, hanging clothes to dry, and so forth, can reduce emissions immediately, but tend to have much lower RAER on a decadal time scale than one - time actions that upgrade household energy - using equipment (cars, heating systems, etc.; Dietz et al 2009).

In less than ten years solutions for the storage problem will emerge — WUWT published a nice article on Zinc - Oxide batteries that might have the capacity and lack of «memory» to make a good base for large scale storage of daytime power and / or electric car batteries (where currently no battery approaches the energy content of gasoline).

We have all been there, looking in every nook and cranny for the car keys, but usually the worst consequence is turning up late to a family gathering rather than losing millions of pieces of personal information with the potential to facilitate large - scale identity fraud.

My best answer is that, if we are really going to turn over our homes, our cars, our health, and more to private tech companies, on a scale never imagined, we need much, much stronger standards for security and privacy than now exist.