Sentences with phrase «existing gasoline car»

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How this car is allowed to exist is both confounding and wonderful: It's an old - school slap in the face of German and Japanese luxury sedans, a look - what - we - can - do masterpiece that, in our care, managed just 14.2 miles per gallon of premium gasoline.

Starting in 1978, GM offered diesel engines for a number of cars through several of its marques, but they based the engine design heavily on existing gasoline models and had them share many of the same parts, making them both inefficient and very fragile.

But whereas BMW built an electric car from scratch in the i3, and Chevrolet in the Bolt, Ford is one of the many manufacturers who saw fit to convert an existing gasoline - powered model into an electrically - propelled one.

Three powertrain options exist on these cars; the first is a 2.4 - liter gasoline engine coupled with an electric motor in a hybrid configuration, next there is a 2.5 - liter four - cylinder that churns out 195 - hp, and finally there is the 3.6 - liter V6 option that delivers 305 - hp and dashes from 0 to 60 mph in 6.7 - seconds.

Our first pick based on an existing gasoline powered car, the EV version of the Soul «simply adds full electric power to what is already a practical, versatile package,» say Corbett.

Dan Stackhouse (# 8) is right about the fact that it is too bad that these new Tatas use gasoline, but, despite so much talk to the contrary, more ideal means of moving cars around, especially one billion of them, don't exist.

Based off Shuanghuan's existing gasoline - powered Noble, RTEV has designed the car's drive system, which uses plug - in dry cell sealed (AGM) batteries.

Ethanol is currently transported mainly by tanker truck or rail cars because it can not be shipped in existing gasoline pipelines.

Interestingly, Lutz is extending the V8 magic to existing Karma owners by offering to convert their cars to gasoline - only propulsion for just $ 10o, 000 — roughly 100 % of the Karma's original price.