Sentences with phrase «conventional cars»

Insurance companies consider the typical sports car driver to be less responsible on the road than drivers of conventional cars.

Like conventional cars of the era, most of the time, four - wheel drive trucks sent power to the rear wheels.

They take up just as much room as conventional cars running on petrol or diesel.

What's more, one can buy more conventional cars for similar money that offer better features, more driving fun, and even higher practicality and comfort.

If you want that, you pull two paddles on a steering wheel [on conventional cars, they're used to shift gears in the transmission].

They are not dependent on grid source electricity, do not need to be plugged in and have the same features as most conventional cars.

Unlike conventional cars, many hybrids get better city mileage than highway mileage, because at low speeds, they can operate on electric power alone.

Unlike many autonomous concepts, it's not designed to replace conventional cars so much as provide an alternative for businesses and dedicated mobility services.

Conventional cars use an air - fuel mixture in which all the oxygen and fuel is burned during combustion.

The results are what matter, and many conventional cars get impressive mileage without these tricks.

He also notes that the report may underestimate emissions reductions from improved conventional cars, biofuels, and other technologies.

People with conventional cars tend to fill them up, run them until the gas gauge gets low, and then fill them again.

Of course, there are smaller cars and any form of two wheel transportation, both of which take up a fraction of the space that conventional car parking does.

But, as you may have heard, there are no electric vehicles available today that resemble conventional cars or trucks.

Unlike conventional cars, commercial trucks require specialized insurance.

The key now is to shift more road freight to electrified rail, increase the use of light rail and metro subways within cities, and accelerate the replacement of conventional cars with plug - in hybrids and all - electric vehicles — and to run them all largely on electricity generated from renewable sources.

There is a massive potential for reducing both traffic noise and fuel consumption linked to conventional cars by combining low - noise tyres and the right kind of road surfacing.

The electric car may find itself only a niche product, rather than a replacement for conventional cars moved by internal combustion — even if EVs are safer overall.

«The results, which demonstrate a reduction in both noise and energy consumption, raise the interesting issue of a technology «transfer» by which conventional cars could be fitted with tires developed for electric cars, combined with a re-assessment of what road surfacing textures should be used in heavy traffic areas.

Fisker has spent a considerable part of its vast development budget on making sure the Karma ticks all the dynamic boxes that anyone coming to it from a similarly - priced conventional car would expect.

But unlike conventional car companies that must develop complex mechanical systems to ensure that the front and rear wheels work together in their luxury cars, Tesla has been able to adopt the simple expedient of dropping another motor into the Model S to power the front wheels.

Company co-founder Elon Musk has forever changed both the cars we drive and the automotive industry offering a wide range of features and options making conventional cars appear out of date even while on the showroom floor.

In this hour, we'll explore how India can choose — and is choosing — to shift from a fossil fuel path to sustainable development, witnessing leadership in action from the country's role in the International Solar Alliance to its efforts to replace the dirty conventional cars polluting its cities with 6 - 7 million electric and hybrid vehicles by 2020.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.

Currently more than 40 per cent of the US corn crop goes into producing ethanol, which is mostly mixed with gasoline to fuel conventional cars.

ChargeCar aims to create a kit that makes it easy for local auto shops to convert conventional cars to electric.

It definitely sees conventional cars that way.

Does this mean you ought to start shorting stock in companies selling conventional cars?

It's a largely conventional car, only stretched over a long wheelbase of 109.4 inches.

Tesla is without competition but it is not within conventional car price level.

Conventional cars obtain constant hydraulic pressure for the power steering system by running a pump off the crankshaft pulley.

This can't be much of a premium on small conventional cars in the US?

The body styling is quite vanlike, but the Odyssey sits lower than the other guys» offerings and uses four conventional car doors instead of the two front doors and single sliding side door found on regular minivans.

Nissan LEAF is the first EV that can match conventional cars in many respects,» said Håkan Matson, President of the Jury, Car of the Year.

BMW ActiveHybrid technology uses energy converted into heat and therefore wasted in conventional cars through the operation and use of the brakes.

In space terms it slots between the ASX and the Outlander and is further proof of Mitsubishi's determination to become an SUV specialist; the unloved Mirage is the only conventional car left in the European line - up.

Work can be done speed up the process, but it won't be an overnight switch for carbon sequestering farms, just as there are still conventional cars on the road, and likely will be for a long time.

Use inexpensive, small, lightweight FPLG to provide extended range capability to 400 miles as with conventional car equivalents.

The study, entitled «State of Charge: Electric Vehicles» Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Cost Savings Across the United States,» points out that charging an electric vehicle with coal - based electricity yields the same carbon impact as at conventional car that gets 30 miles per gallon (mpg).

Given current trends, this assumption is considered to be too optimistic without strong policy in countries such as China and India where growth in conventional car ownership is on the rise.

The Model S, Tesla's new all - electric offering for 2012, is a mid-size sedan selling for $ 50,000, or twice the price of comparable conventional cars such as the Toyota Camry or Ford Fusion.

Personal Accident covers for the owner or driver of the car is offered with a death benefit of 2 lakhs in case of an accidental death.Add - on Covers such as Zero Depreciation cover & Hydrostatic lock cover makes this much beneficial as compared to any other conventional Car insurance plan

So every day that the Gigafactory workers drive to work to make batteries for carbon - saving electric cars, they generate as much CO2 as 12 conventional cars do in a year.