Sentences with phrase «conventional cars do»

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.

Not exact matches

Musk's point was that if Tesla engaged in conventional advertising strategies — the company currently does almost no advertising — it could increase demand, but its more pressing issue now is being able to simply built its cars, and build them well.

Electric cars are an apt metaphor, because whenever clean meat does hit supermarkets, it will almost certainly be pricier than conventional meat.

A car can be retrofitted to run on CNG (compressed natural gas), but it doesn't have the range of a conventional petrol powered car.

The transmission does not form part of the engine as on conventional cars, but is unit - built with the rear axle and bolted to the chassis to reduce unsprung weight.

Unlike conventional infant car seats, Transporter 2 doesn't have any time restriction that a newborn can travel in it.

Unlike conventional infant car seats this lie - flat auto carrycot doesn't have any time restrictions, meaning a newborn can travel in it for longer journeys nonstop.

I did not understand if this Quinny Moodd Stroller includes the conventional Seat or it is only the car basic struture.

But Chris sees himself travelling down a different path, and he appears determined to shrug off this comfortable, conventional lifestyle, rejecting their offer of a new car and telling them that he doesn't want any of these «things, things, things».

Though the iQ doesn't get the vaunted 40 - mpg highway estimate that so many subcompacts are pushing these days, its mileage — 36/37 mpg city / highway — reads more like that of a hybrid than a conventional car.

To make the weight savings visible, the car does without conventional grilles and louvers.

-- U.S. - market cars don't get the polycarbonate rear and side windows like the European 911 R. Conventional glass adds just more than 7 pounds to R models coming to our shores, but Porsche lists the weight the same as the Euro car.

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The REx option does not turn the i3 into a conventional car.

To do this, it uses regenerative braking from the electric motor and the stopping power of the car's conventional brakes.

Other hybrids and some conventional cars have implemented electric assist, and some of them just don't feel right.

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

It may not be outright beautiful by conventional standards, but it does look breathtakingly different: the radically aggressive, big - mouth front end vacates fast lanes more promptly than a cop car with siren wailing and lights blazing.

The resulting pig - eyed look did nothing for what was a pretty nice little car, eventually restyled to be more conventional.

While many cars still use a conventional hydraulic power steering system, yours doesn't.

Though both are imbued with the latest high - tech lithium - ion batteries, the conventional hybrid has to make do with a teeny - weeny 1.6 kilowatt - hour affair while the plug - in version sucks electrons from a big, I'm - almost - an - electric - car 9.8 kW / h unit.

Audi says its ultra-light concept car to be unveiled at the Frankfurt auto show in September doesn't fit into any conventional automotive categories.

Of course, the latter was replaced by a full panel since electric cars don't need the cooling system of a vehicle that uses a conventional engine.

The car also has something even in common with a Tesla Model S besides plugging in — its coefficient of drag is 0.24 and this is without door handles that retract and with an open grille like a conventional car — although active grille shutters do contribute to the aerodynamics.

A dry sump system, typically used for high - performance and race engines, does away with the conventional oil pan and uses an oil reservoir mounted in the car.

That's a lot of stuff, but Nissan says that many Leaf owners have moved into a battery car from a conventional premium model and don't want to step down on features.

Unlike conventional systems of this type, the Mercedes assistance system also assesses the driver's actions and, in so doing, can reliably ascertain whether the car has left its lane intentionally or unintentionally.

As a thoroughbred performance car, the Boxster's sticky tyres and consumable parts will wear more quickly than the conventional runabout, and does require specialist servicing.

The e-tron is designed to challenge the BMW i3 electric car (which is available with a range - extending petrol engine), but doesn't feel quite as revolutionary — although the Audi is more conventional and easier to live with.

The I - Pace doesn't look like a conventional SUV: Its passenger compartment is placed virtually in the middle of the car, which features short front and rear overhangs, and a short hood.

They don't just build a conventional car on top of a battery.

It's much cheaper than a conventional auto policy, as it does not cover damage to the car itself but merely covers liability and perhaps personal injury protection.

Too many Realtors talk about things that they know little to nothing about, much like car salespeople who don't know how many cylinders a V6 has, or if an automatic transmission is a CVT or a conventional one, or if the car uses synthetic oil or not etc..

But more than three years after the recession threw car sales into a tailspin, many dealers have started offering loans at interest rates so low they don't make much of a profit — and that's turning conventional car - buying wisdom on its head.

Don't fall for the deceptive statement, «but plug - ins are better than conventional cars.»

Having said that, the current generation of mainstream hybrid cars (e.g. the Prius) and the newer pluggable - hybrids (e.g. the Volt) do get more than «a little bit better» gas mileage than conventional gasoline - fueled cars and are increasingly affordable.

As part of that, «Tesla's philosophy is to not make profits on servicing its cars (which aligns its interests with the EV owners — they now have incentives to make cars that don't break down),» but that approach severely cuts into the profits of the conventional dealership model.

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.

Comparing the full lifecycle emissions of greenhouse gases by the two fuels from production through combustion in cars, Eric Johnson, editor of Environmental Impact Assessment Review, and Russell Heinen, Vice President of SRI Consulting, found that «biodiesel derived from rapeseed grown on dedicated farmland emits nearly the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions (defined as CO2 equivalents) per km driven as does conventional diesel.»

The tool does not include hybrid cars that don't plug - in («conventional hybrids»).

Conventional hybrids may also make sense in cases where electric cars don't match a driver's needs.

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

Indeed, at $ 25,391 per car, the Altima hybrids cost about $ 1,500 more than the conventional Impala, but it gets about twice as many miles per gallon as the Impala does (35 vs. 16), so payback time on the cost difference should be pretty quick (not to mention that if (when?)

The Uber and Lyft rideshare phenomenon seems to be all but eradicating the conventional taxicab business, since you're doing the same thing only with your own car.

But do bear in mind that you will need to pay for excess insurance alongside your conventional car insurance policy.