Sentences with phrase «efficient car as»

It won't be as tough to find a fun - to - drive fuel - efficient car as automakers introduce a variety of ways to increase fuel economy.

Just in time to give consumers more choices of fuel - efficient cars as gasoline prices continue to spike, Kia has brought us the redesigned Rio subcompacts for 2006.

Not exact matches

But he's already weighing his options, saying if gas goes to $ 4 a gallon he'll buy a more fuel - efficient car to use as his main ride and drive the Land Cruiser only when he needs it.

And we won't have to build as many roads, because autonomous cars are more efficient.

Perhaps by skipping the Prairies in initial launches, car manufacturers also realize there is some truth to the stereotype of Albertans as big truck - and SUV - driving types who are not as interested in fuel - efficient vehicles.

Toyota saw sales of its gas - electric hybrid cars, such as the fuel - efficient Prius, rise 50 percent compared with February 2010.

Sorry I am probably never going to give up my car [it is small and fuel efficient though] but as a reminder that most of what is sold in shops is c ** p and unnecessary, he's the MAN.

They are also around three times as efficient as cars with an internal combustion engine.

Obviously we were not super efficient because I was working around P's nap and food schedule (as well as my ability to load and unload the car).

Demonstrating excellence in Enhanced User Experience, the innovatively designed packaging format contains three separate component parts combined as one, and provides a simple and efficient use for car repairs.

Her gifts — the downy - soft hands, the vision on the ice that allows her to see two or three steps ahead of other players, the production so efficient and dependable that it suggests the assembly line of a German car plant — seem as easy to explain as her green eyes and her blonde drape of hair.

Honda would also benefit from supplying Sauber as it would mean there are double the amount of cars to gather data from, which should theoretically allow for faster and more efficient development of the power units.

But as well as looking badass, it's also set to be faster and more efficient than the existing car, and will also be able to complete a race on a single charge, meaning no more car swaps.

A sheltered pavilion will serve as an outdoor classroom and meeting space, and the site will provide efficient flow for pedestrians, cars, and school buses, and incorporate outdoor gathering spaces for school groups and other participants.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

Among the holy grails of physics, a room temperature superconductor, Dias said, could radically change our transportation system, making magnetic levitation of high - speed trains possible, as well as making electric cars more efficient and improving the performance of many electronic devices.

And the recent national «cash for clunkers» program for trading in old cars for newer, more efficient vehicles was highly popular «because the money was available up front and not as a tax rebate months later,» Dietz says.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

«Telecom, cable, ICT, electric power... there will be a lot of jobs just building out the infrastructure,» from wiring up plugs along the nation's byways to recharge electric cars to beefing up insulation in houses so that every home is as efficient as possible.

For example, European Union standards favoring fuel - efficient diesel cars over gasoline cars may lead to more warming, because diesel engines release 40 to 250 times as much soot as gasoline engines.

Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University in East Lansing and his team calculated the carbon - saving impact of 17 practices, such as eschewing tumble dryers, car pooling and buying fuel - efficient vehicles (see the full list below).

It will help us make parts that are stronger, lighter and function better for more energy - efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.»

As we have proven, combining the two gives us synergy — a more efficient use of electricity and it also improves engine braking, which stops the car faster with lesser wear on the brake pads.»

Prof Mhaisalkar, said this innovation will pave the way for extending the range of electric cars, as the integrated design combines the two of the most important parts of an electric car, thus reducing its complexity into one highly efficient solution.

They have already greatly influenced the design of such aerodynamically efficient products as airplanes and cars

This makes it more than twice as efficient as conventional hybrid cars, which can only recover about 30 per cent of the braking energy, he says.

«We can think of one blazar class as a gas - guzzling car and the other as an energy - efficient electric vehicle,» study lead researcher Marco Ajello, an astrophysicist at Clemson University in South Carolina, said in a statement.

As cars become more fuel - efficient, less heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it harder to clean up the pollutants that are emitted.

For a start, it offers «green» features, such as parking spaces dedicated to energy - efficient cars, and there is a non-smoking policy.

If you put regular gasoline into your tank, the car will move, but it's not going to be quite as efficient.

It's a finely tuned Motor City engine: The action, including a nighttime car chase through a blinding snowstorm, is fast, brutal and efficient; the Motown soundtrack never cuts out; and as a gangster called Sweet, the British - Nigerian actor Chiwetel Ejiofor gives an electrifying performance.

No matter how sophisticated and accurate it becomes, it's just not how I want to control my car's features, partly because I don't find it as quick or efficient as hitting a button or two.

There is major plan view chamfering so the car is aerodynamically efficient, but the hood centerline is as long as possible, enhanced by the painted transverse piece below.

With a combined economy rating of 28 mpg for the manual and 30 mpg for the automatic, Subaru says the automatic Impreza is the most fuel - efficient all - wheel - drive car you can buy in the U.S. And that newfound thrift carries benefits into other areas, too — for instance, a smaller gas tank allows a flat load floor in the five - door, which is one of the ways that Subaru increased interior volume while maintaining the same footprint as the 2011 model.

Comparing our car to a similarly equipped 2014 Honda Civic, the Mazda3 and its 2.5 - liter four - cylinder engine mated to a six - speed automatic transmission proved to be damn near as efficient as the Civic and its smaller 1.8 - liter inline - four with a continuously variable transmission.

He also notes, as do many auto executives, that higher gas taxes would go a long way toward ensuring there's a market for the efficient cars the government is ordering carmakers to build.

To push its own small two - seater into production, Pontiac brass had to sell the car as being a fuel - efficient commuter runabout that happened to look (and, by 1988, drive) sporty.

However, as gas prices climbed, the Goliaths (RIP, Hummer) were outpaced by the Davids, the small, fuel - efficient car segments.

And because, as we also stated three years ago, «what the world really needs now is not cars that are fast, but cars that are practical, fuel - efficient, and fast.»

This is the type of efficient yet diabolically fun powerplant every sports car maker needs to do well as CAFE standards ramp up in the U.S.

Mazda has established a well - deserved reputation as a builder of fun - to - drive, fuel - efficient sporty cars, and it delivers on all fronts with its new volume model.

This is the type of efficient yet diabolically fun engine every sports car maker needs to do well as CAFE standards ramp up in the U.S.

Recently automatic cars have become almost as efficient or even as efficient as manuals.

At the same time, we should point out that when the entire class is as efficient as these small cars, purchasing for an extra mile per gallon or two has debatable merit.

I was recently reading an article by Road & Track magazine that was comparing different sports cars, and it mentioned the fuel efficiencies of the manual versions versus the automatic versions, and actually listed the automatics as being more fuel efficient than manuals by about 2 mpg.

Aerodynamic technology features heavily, too, with the car's main air intakes — positioned either side of the front grille and ahead of the rear wheels — opening and closing as required, meaning they can be closed flush under most circumstances to provide a lower, slipperier and more efficient drag coefficient.

The new steering system is one of many changes described as «Porsche Intelligent Performance», a wave of measures to cut energy consumption and make the 911 a cleaner, more efficient car.

CVTs became common in hybrid cars because they are considerably more efficient than both manual and traditional automatic transmissions, and their popularity skyrocketed from there as automakers competed for the best possible fuel economy ratings.

This effectively means engineers have strived to make the car as light, efficient and fun to drive as possible.

Volkswagen AG used cameras instead of mirrors on the XL1, an aerodynamic diesel - hybrid two - seater developed at the behest of Chairman Ferdinand Piech and touted as the world's most efficient car.