Sentences with phrase «electric cars running»

There are two types of electric cars running purely on gasoline called series and parallel hybrid cars having an hybrid engine.

«You mention that the plug - in is necessary for transition to electric cars running on renewable energy sources.

Now, one other thing about electric cars — and you don't need to talk to Chu about this — it turns out electric cars run on electricity.

«[A] n electric car running on power generated by dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.

Electric cars run to a large part on electricity produced by coal fired plants.

And even if we create an electric car run on renewable energy that beats the carbon footprint of a horse, then I'd ask - is the ride in an electric car more enjoyable?

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The legendary electric car — list price: a cool $ 130,000, with all the options — comes with a giant touch screen mounted on the dash, which runs a web browser hooked up to the car's own Internet connection.

The car can run for up to 31 miles on electric power alone, which is powered by a 13 kWh lithium - ion battery.

Meanwhile, AMD was rumored to be working with Tesla a custom chip to run the AI programs in future self - driving electric cars.

Tesla Motors, the electric car company run by billionaire Elon Musk, said its first - quarter revenue grew by more than 50 %.

However, in the long run, this will be a losing strategy for American workers if it forces Carrier to sell its air conditioners on the world market at non-competitive prices, or replace its production workers with robots, as Tesla (TSLA) has done in producing its electric cars.

By focussing on the software and driver experience over the vehicle's physical performance, Breitfeld hopes to avoid repeating the same mistakes as Faraday Future — an electric car company that has run into financial difficulties after unveiling its FF91 vehicle at CES last year.

Electric streetcars operated in Calgary between 1909 and 1950, and in its heyday, the system had nearly 80 cars running between downtown and various suburbs including Tuxedo Park, Mount Pleasant, Elbow Park and Killarney, with one line going to Bowness.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

It will be run by SolarCity, a power provider chaired by Elon Musk, a co-founder of PayPal and CEO of the Tesla Motors electric car company.

«People want to charge electric cars very fast, and they want to run them for 500 miles,» he says.

About 11,000 hybrid buses, pure electric cabs and other types of clean cars are running on China's roads as a result of the program.

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The hybrid GE is developing with the marine engineering firm C - MAR works something like the upcoming Chevy Volt car, which uses an electric motor as its primary drive and carries a small combustion engine to charge batteries that run low.

Oil production may fall in 10 years — not because it is running out but because electric cars will be cheaper and gasoline engines will be better

Had they not been run by crooks, chances are that the internal combustion engine would not have dominated the 20th century (see «How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years»).

Electric cars face severe limits in how far they can drive before running out of juice.

They compared cars that run on batteries versus hydrogen fuel cells in a hypothetical future where the cost of electric vehicles is more affordable.

Both electric cars and plug - in hybrids can be run on electricity.

«One of the main challenges in getting more people to choose electric cars is the fear that their batteries will run flat and they won't find anywhere to charge them,» says Liv Øvstedal at SINTEF.

They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving gasoline / electric hybrid cars than by driving fuel cell cars run on hydrogen from coal.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

The all - electric car's battery would run out before you reached the city limits.

Or an affordable electric car that ran for more than 200 miles on a single battery charge.

Plug - in hybrids are cars that would be built to run primarily on an electric battery, but if extra power were needed for a long drive, a gasoline engine would kick in.

Greenpower Education Trust runs a competition in which 33 teams of pupils design, build and race electric kit cars

Like any full hybrid, the 300h can run on electric power at low speeds for short distances; an EV mode, activated via Drive Mode Select, raises the threshold where the car transitions to engine power.

The electric powertrain ran out around 25 miles into the journey, not unexpected at highway speeds, but the car will still run in electric mode with the engine providing battery power instead of actual propulsive force if need be.

That's why I bought a hybrid that has electric AC pump running independently of engine speed and the alternator is actually a very beefy motor - generator; this car has no traditional alternator.

Chevrolet's Bolt, specifically designed and engineered as a battery - electric, all - purpose, all - weather vehicle with enough range to make running - out - of - juice anxiety a thing of the past, is not only a perfectly adequate small commuting and grocery - getting family car, it's actually very agreeable to drive.

Running purely electric, the car can manage 22 miles.

Tesla Roadster It was part of the plan all along, but the electric Roadster's 2500 - unit production run will likely end before 2011 does, leaving Tesla without a car to sell until the Model S sedan arrives in late 2012.

Genovation hasn't confirmed GXE's latest specification, but back in March, when the car set its last 186mph run, the 2006 Corvette Z06's V8 had made way for an electric motor developing «in excess of» 700bhp and 600 lb ft of torque.

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Cars these days have electric fans that run when needed to help cool the radiator.

Despite the flat - out sprints, the drag racing, the donuts, the top - speed runs, and dicing through traffic like there's a jet pack strapped to the trunk, Pacific Gas and Electric — which generated power for the Tesla — released into the atmosphere the same amount of carbon dioxide as would a gasoline - powered car getting 99 mpg.

The i8 is significant not just for its ability to run on electric power for limited distances, but also for the way it looks and drives - the latter of which appealed enough to secure it a spot in evo Car of the year 2014.

The automaker announced its all - electric RapidE sedan will now be a limited edition car, with a lower production run than originally planned.

The black COG is connected to the crankshaft of the engine with a belt just like the compressor of the air conditioner, and runs off of the engine power, think of it as a electric generator for the car.

The electric running gives it a USP that few other cars in this bracket can boast and on - road performance and composure is staggering, to the extent you really need a track to make the most of it.

The Karma's primary power source, as an electric vehicle, is a 360 - volt, 20 - kWh lithium - ion battery pack that runs down the center of the car.

The Lagonda electric car shape was generated by the technology, unlike the Tesla Model S, which is an internal combustion - powered car shape with a fake grille (early in the production run), rather like air - cooled Franklins with big fake radiator grilles.

I would say that Tesla's day's in the monopolistic sun are numbered - more than 120 electric car models have been promised to appear over the next several years and Tesla has ZERO patents to protect itself and has run out of govt subsidies in the U.S. - they are going to have to compete against companies whose cars have a $ 7500 price advantage and will be unable to continue raping the consumer by selling zero emission credits.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.