Sentences with phrase «car up to speed»

The brakes are very powerful, but it is difficult to bring the car up to speed when traveling on the highway.

The V6 does a decent job of moving the car around, and has no trouble getting the car up to speed.

At 148 horsepower, the engine is adequate to get the car up to speed, but not in a hurry.

Despite the displacement — 1.2 litres — the engine in the Fabia 81TSI was blessed with enough power to push the little car up to speed briskly.

At idle, there is a tiny bit of vibration coming through the pedals and the door armrest though once you get the car up to speed, it all smoothens out.

You need to be extremely patient to get this car up to speed, and overtaking moves need plenty of time.

That's not to say it's imperfect (the smaller of the two engines does struggle to get the car up to speed, and the rear visibility is compromised even by big sedan standards), but the Chevrolet Impala rarely skips a beat anywhere else.

Its powertrain, a 293 - hp V - 6 mated to a six - speed automatic, gets the car up to speed quickly and smoothly, and the suspension handles road irregularities with ease.

The group knew that no matter how efficiently the powertrain brought the car up to speed, precious energy would go up in brake - pad smoke every time the car was slowed.

300 SLs are powered by 3.0 - liter straight - six engines producing around 215 horsepower — enough to get the 2,400 - pound cars up to speed quickly for their day.

There's Auto eDrive, which allows the electric motor to propel the car up to speeds of 55 mph, asks the combustion engine for help at higher speeds, and will also fire up that engine when the battery drops below 7 percent.

Not exact matches

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

Imagine your car slowing down by gently and safely bumping another car that is trying to speed up.

The flying cars can take off vertically and fly at speeds of up to 186mph, and rides will be affordably price, says Lilium.

But there's an even simpler way to speed up traffic through intersections that doesn't require on - board computers, self - driving cars, cruise control, or even traffic lights.

For example, someone filming themselves on a scenic 15 minute car ride can speed up the clip so it's shorter and easier to follow, he explained.

On government procurement, Couillard told reporters he's considering whether to speed up planned renovations of Montreal metro cars in order to provide work for Bombardier, as layoffs are threatened there.

The airwaves in the 3.4 GHz band have been earmarked for 5G, the future wireless technology that promises to link up everything from cars to household devices, as well as providing far greater smartphone speeds.

The tech giant has assembled a team of traditional and nontraditional suppliers to speed up efforts to bring self - driving cars to market by 2020.

So, once the vehicles get up to speed and merge into the flow of traffic like a car merging on to a freeway, they are coasting the whole trip.»

Hyperloop transportation systems can reach speeds of up to 750 mph, cutting six - hour travel time by car down to 30 minutes.

Canada needs to speed up and get serious about electric cars.

The company joins a frenzy of upstarts seeking to speed up investment in China's electric - car sector.

I travel by air and car, speeding up global warming and the exhaustion of resources, in order to attend conferences or give lectures calling for the service of God.

An inquest heard how Pawel Luba was driving up to double the 30mph speed limit along the city's Gregory Boulevard on 19th February 2017 when his bike collided with a car which was pulling into the road.

Every time somebody speeds up to keep you from walking across the street in front of their car or makes a racist comment in the grocery store, we would lift up our shirts and show them the undershirts.

Temar and Chris chased the vehicle, peddled up next to it and caught sight of a little girl and a middle - aged man at the wheel — when the man saw them, he pushed her out of the car and sped off.

The weight of the car has decreased from 888 kg to 880, which should speed them up a bit.

The paper says the car, which can reach speeds up to 155mph, was snatched by a teenager who was found to have also taken pick - pocketed two club season tickets from supporters.

Roaring around high - banked tracks at speeds up to nearly 200 mph in cars tenuously resembling the stock models available at your neighborhood dealer is a right sizable business.

Now Formula E cars aren't exactly known for their blinding speed and Lotterer says that driving one is totally different to what he's been enjoying in his career up to this point.

With no other electric series currently around (pun absolutely intended) it can be quite difficult for drivers entering Formula E to get up to speed with the different techniques required to race an electric car.

The FIA says 2017 Formula 1 cars will be up to 40km / h quicker through the high - speed corners, so expect lap times to fall dramatically!

Getting up that close to racing cars being driven in anger has to be up there as one of the absolute coolest fan experiences ever, especially when those cars are close to LMP1 levels of speed.

Speeds were way up — to 190 mph — but joy way down in the Daytona 500 stock - car run as steady Cale Yarborough raced to a narrow win

Whilst Montoya had use of the test facilities he also took the Chiron up to a speed of 261mph, which is faster than he's ever gone any of his racing cars before.

It's widely believed that the paparazzi caused the car to speed up and therefore crash.

It is as though an unconscious part of the mind was able to drive the car, avoid danger, speed up and slow down as necessary, while the conscious mind went off on a brief vacation thinking about something else.

In addition, the policy group calls for a review of speed limits to see whether they could be made more effective - for example, during the school run, cars should be limited to 20mph outside schools, but should be able to speed up at any other time.

It says the existing use of GPS satellite systems as a tool to avoid traffic build - ups will be extended to automatically debit the motorist's bank account for the cost of a road or mileage toll, and to allow police to monitor the speed of all cars.

Those who find themselves stuck in toll booth - induced traffic on the Henry Hudson Bridge can look forward to a speedier commute: The M.T.A. is formulating a plan to speed up traffic and reduce car emissions by creating more efficient E-ZPass tolls (no more slowing to a halt, then passing).

The situation is similar to cars on a highway, he explained: Cars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway specars on a highway, he explained: Cars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway speCars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway speeds.

And now the technology is to the point where you have devices — I've driven in them; they're amazing — and these [have] cruise control which have radar in the front, which allows you stay a certain distance behind the car in front of you, it will speed up and slow down.

Although ORNL's proposed system would allow PHEV - makers to leave out the onboard charger that they currently install in their cars, the first - generation PHEVs are not intended for high - speed charging, says Frank, who is also founder of Efficient Drivetrains, Inc., a U.C. Davis start - up that designs energy - management systems for electric vehicles and hybrids.

As well as speeding up Wi - Fi, plasma antennas could also allow cars to come with low - cost miniature radar systems to help drivers avoid collisions.

But it is easy to see how your judgement might be influenced by the knowledge that the speeding car ended up crippling a pedestrian.

It's two jet engines generate 110,000 horsepower — about a thousand times more than a Ford Escort — guzzle 5 gallons of fuel a second, and take about thirty seconds to get the 54 - foot - long, 7 - ton car up to supersonic speeds.

Those cars charge up their batteries with electricity generated when the car brakes and then used that «recycled» energy to power their electric motors, which take over from the vehicle's gasoline engine at low speeds and in stop - and - go traffic.

As he learns to control certain brain waves while playing the game, his race car speeds up.

The short answer to the driving - up - the - wall problem is, of course, that a car of the right mass moving at sufficient speed on a curved vertical surface could stay up there.