Sentences with phrase «electric setup»

However, it has since made way for a gasoline - electric setup sharing some components, including its main electric motor, with the i3's electric system.

This gasoline - electric setup provides a useful 420 - mile range before needing to fill up or stop for a charge.

Sadly, the all - electric setup causes cargo space to suffer.

But then Porsche dropped its hydraulically assisted steering — an equally important part of the Porsche DNA, we'd argue — for a fully electric setup in a bid to save what amounts to a thimbleful of fuel.

It's a steer - by - wire system that eschews the traditional rack - and - pinion for an entirely electric setup.

The front wheels will also be directed by the latest version of Jaguar's electromechanical power assisted steering, which has been one of the best electric setups available to date.

It will be offered with two powertrains: a 2.5 - litre hybrid electric setup and a 2.0 - litre petrol.

It would be great if VW would bring back the 2004 version of the 1.9 liter TDI engine with this new electric setup as a hybrid.

As a member of Volkswagen's MQB family, the Audi Q1 could easily be offered with three - cylinder engines, a plug - in hybrid powertrain, or an all - electric setup — but it won't be.

Steering is direct and provides plenty of feel, especially for an electric setup.

The «hybrid» badge on the side means a petrol - electric drivetrain will sit beneath the bodywork of this concept at least, perhaps the Lexus LS600h's 439bhp 5.0 - litre V8 / electric setup.

The steering is very quick, perhaps more so than you'd like considering its lack of feel (thank the shift from a hydraulic to electric setup), but once you've got accustomed to it, you'll get a real flow going over Britain's twisty and choppy B - roads.

Never mind that this is now an electric setup; the looseness has been banished, the ratio quickened, and efforts firmed up.

Speaking of the steering, the electric setup in the Navigator offers more feedback than other full - size SUVs we've driven, giving the driver a good sense of where the wheels are pointed at any given time.

The handling is predictable but there is no feedback from the electric setup.

There's even an all - electric setup for the aptly named Focus Electric.

It will have three engines, including Acura's first hybrid configuration, a 1.5 - liter gasoline - electric setup.

The 2011 Ford Transit Connect EV, on sale by the end of this year, builds on the commercial - vehicle attributes of the North American Truck of the Year by dumping the four - cylinder gasoline powertrain in favor of an all - electric setup.

Gasoline - powered Outlanders come with three rows of seats and seating for seven, but the PHEV ditches that third row for a place to hold the electric setup, reducing seating to five.