Sentences with phrase «doing hybrid propulsion»
«No one else is doing hybrid propulsion quite like this,» said Koji Ninomiya, chief engineer for the Accord Hybrid.
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While the V - 8 / 10 - speed is the only powertrain for the LC 500 at present, we'd be stunned if we didn't see more propulsion options for the LC in the future, namely a hybrid.
It's the first production electric car from Morgan, but don't expect it to be the last — the firm recently announced # 6 million in funding from the UK's Advanced Propulsion Centre, with a view to creating an entire range of electric and hybrid vehicles by the end of the decade.
«We can do lot more with today's propulsion systems, both gas and diesel, as you downsize and add direct - injection and electrification to those systems,» Smyth says, noting GM is working on all possible future powertrain technologies, including hybrid - and all - electric vehicles, as well as plug - in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
During this «EV» mode of operation with engine on for heat, the engine is not being used for propulsion, so it is not actually in HEV (Hybrid) mode and the EV indicator does stay on even as the engine is cooking along too.
The gas burner is notably not Atkinson cycle like everyone else's, and the single electric propulsion motor does what it's supposed to and the hybrid system looks to be more cost - effective to produce.
Toyota wasn't willing to discuss specs, but did say that the 2.5 - liter engine — codenamed «Dynamic Force» — achieves 40 percent thermal efficiency (41 percent for the hybrid model), meaning it's better at turning combustion into propulsion than the average engine.