Sentences with phrase «electric miles driven»

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The concept being shown in Beijing features an electric drive with a 200 - mile (320 - kilometer) range.

Faraday claims its all - electric car will have a top speed of 200 miles per hour, compared with 155 miles per hour for Tesla's Model S, and will offer an autonomous driving mode.

Tesla's long - range electric vehicles can drive between 210 and 315 miles on a single charge.

The California - based electric car startup says the car will utilize an industry leading 130 kWh battery that's capable of driving 378 miles on a single charge.

This week on The Tesla Show: «We took a field trip to test drive the Bolt EV, Chevrolet's new all - electric 238 mile...

The Pocket Mod Sweet Pea is jam - packed with features, including a high - performance chain - driven electric motor, a gorgeous vintage - inspired body, a pair of 12 - inch pneumatic tires with a rear suspension system (to ensure a comfortable ride), a retractable kickstand, variable - speed acceleration, a padded seat, and a built - in battery that travels for up to 10 miles on a single charge.

Travelling speeds of up to 12 miles per hour, the electric power engages a chain driven motor for a smooth and comfortable ride.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

And whereas many traditional motorcycles can achieve a respectable 50 miles per gallon at a driving cost of about seven cents per mile, an electric bike uses the energy equivalent of about 420 mpg at an operating cost of two to three cents per mile.

If costs come down, electric vehicles could become very appealing, since their driving cost per mile can be extremely low.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

Driving experience The 400 - horsepower electric engine perched above the rear wheel makes it dangerously easy to accelerate in the Model S, although a software governor currently imposes a top speed limit of 130 miles per hour.

Electrical capacity is measured in watt - hours; electric cars use about 350 watt - hours to drive one mile in the city.

For example, they compared the cost of driving one mile using electric car batteries plus electricity, with the cost using fuel tanks plus petrol.

Another technology that gets better mileage than standard engines, and hence produces less carbon dioxide for each mile driven, is the gasoline - electric hybrid, which marries a gasoline engine with electric motors.

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).

BETTER BATTERIES are the key to electric cars that can drive for hundreds of miles between rechargings, but progress on existing technology is annoyingly incremental, and breakthroughs are a distant prospect.

Another automotive engine technology that gets better mileage than standard internal - combustion power plants and hence, produces less carbon dioxide for each mile driven, is the gasoline - electric hybrid, which marries a gasoline engine with electric motors.

The Kia Soul EV will go on sale in the third quarter of this year and promises an electric driving range of 80 - 100 miles while retaining the funky style of the standard Kia Soul.

Although the Spyder is a full hybrid, the battery can also be fully - charged via a domestic wall - socket in about two hours, which will allow the i8 to drive on pure electric for up to 17 miles.

The experimental car has an electric motor with 111 hp and a lithium - ion battery pack, giving a driving range of about 93 miles per charge.

It achieves an electric - only driving range of approximately 30 miles, and the 18.4 kWh battery pack can be charged in around five hours.

The production I - Pace is also expected to have similar specs to the concept, with two electric motors providing all - wheel - drive capability and a 90 - kilowatt - hour battery pack that's estimated to be good for 220 miles of range.

The 440 - volt, three - phase charger uses a 32 - amp power supply to fully replenish the C30 electric «s batteries in 90 minutes — and in 30 minutes, the charger can give the battery enough juice to drive about 50 miles.

Audi's new all - electric SUV concept has arrived at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show, and boasts an impressive 310 miles of driving range.

Based on the European testing standard, Smart says the 2017 Fortwo Electric Drive will return approximately 99 miles of range per charge for the coupe, and 96 miles for the cabrio.

At a conference in Texas, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said his company would build lighter cars and would develop an electric car that can drive 200 miles per charge.

Smart isn't ready to unveil U.S. - spec range, though we expect it to exceed the 2016 Fortwo Electric Drive coupe and convertible, which are both EPA - rated to travel 68 miles between charges.

The electric drive produces 750 horsepower (550 kW) and Mercedes claims it has an emission - free range of over 200 miles.

This Passat plug - in combines a turbocharged gasoline engine with an 85 - kilowatt electric motor and a high - capacity battery pack to make for a possible electric driving range of approximately 31 miles.

The electric motors continue low - speed cruising in EV - only mode for a few miles, effectively making the hybrid a part - time rear - wheel - drive model.

Fuel - Cell Electric Vehicles can offer over 300 + miles of smooth and quiet all - electric driving, zero tailpipe emissions and a short 3 - to 5 - minute refueliElectric Vehicles can offer over 300 + miles of smooth and quiet all - electric driving, zero tailpipe emissions and a short 3 - to 5 - minute refuelielectric driving, zero tailpipe emissions and a short 3 - to 5 - minute refueling time.

Another Toyota researcher, Taiyo Kawai, general manager - fuel - cell system development, estimates the crossover point for battery - electric and fuel - cell vehicles is a driving range of about 90 miles (144 km) and expects the two powerplants to co-exist.

The automaker says it will put out «around 400» horsepower and offer roughly 30 miles of all - electric driving range.

The gas engine drives the front wheels through an eight - speed automatic transmission, and all - electric range tops out at 25 miles.

There's limited fun to be had trying to eke out a few miles of electric - only driving from it.

This permits an increased electric - only driving range — up from 20 to 33 miles — as well as the mildest of power hikes for the electric motor — up 12bhp to 141bhp.

As the electric racer only needs to last the 12.5 miles of the hill climb, the batteries will only cover a distance of approximately 15 miles when the car is driven at full speed.

Former General Motors CEO Dan Akerson previously indicated that the next - generation Chevrolet Volt would target an all - electric driving range 20 percent greater than the current car's EPA rating of 38 miles.

The gas / electric drivetrain allows for roughly 35 miles of driving range using electricity stored in a large lithium - ion battery before firing up a small, four - cylinder gas engine for another 300 miles of range.

Equipped with a 340 - volt battery pack and a 107 - horsepower electric drive motor, the five - seat Leaf hatchback has an estimated range of 100 miles, though this will vary with weather, terrain, driving style and how much you carry in passengers and cargo.

In the plug - in hybrid, the 9.8 - kWh battery pack is around five times larger than in the standard Sonata Hybrid, making for an EV driving mode that can provide an estimated range of 22 miles running only on electric power.

Toyota's system doesn't promise as much EV range as the Chevy, as it claims to offer up to 15 miles of battery - powered driving before utilizing the car's standard gas - electric hybrid driveline.

Outgoing GM CEO Dan Akerson said in August that he hoped the next - generation Volt would have a 20 - percent greater all - electric range, hinting that the car would be able to drive 50 to 60 miles on its battery alone.

The other part of Business Week «s story concerns a new car with an all - electric driving range of up to 200 miles.

In this E-mode the GTE's 9.9 kWh battery pack supplies enough juice for 31 miles of all - electric driving, at speeds of up to 80mph.

Such a driving range would help the future GM EV close in on the lofty driving range of the Tesla Model S. GM's only current all - electric car, the Chevrolet Spark EV, has an EPA - rated driving range of 82 miles.

The official U.S. - spec EPA electric range rating isn't finalized yet, but it should be somewhere near the 30 mile (49 km) range certified under the New European Driving Cycle.

Smart engineers claim that the Electric Drive has a range of roughly 80 miles - or four to five hours of low - speed city driving.