Sentences with phrase «hybrid car technology»

GQ's Jason Barlow profiles Porsche's Panamera SE electric hybrid as the ultimate symbol of hybrid car technology coming of age and going mainstream.

There's additional potential for fuel savings by combining this gas pedal with hybrid car technology.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

Not exact matches

More sales, especially in developing markets, will help the bottom line, but Ferrari is also going to have to invest in newer hybrid - electric technologies for its cars.

Toyota's Prius sedans are not only the best selling gas - electric hybrid car globally, they also «normalized» a climate - friendly technology that gearheads once viewed with distrust.

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

Schumacher hopes that refining the batteries and charging technology behind KERS will lead to improved hybrid / electric road cars.

Hybrid locomotive technologies offer many advantages, but they will come with new obstacles, says Mike Iden, general director of car and locomotive engineering at Omaha, Neb. — based Union Pacific Railroad, the nation's largest railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer network.

New cars and trucks could improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent if existing technologies such as hybrids are adopted

This is starting to happen already: all - electric cars or plug - in hybrids are beginning to hit the mass market, and will be particularly appropriate for urban or suburban drivers where the limited range of current battery technology is less of a concern.

Toyota's fuel - sipping sedan has become iconic for gasoline — electric hybrid technology, so much so that the model seems to cast a green aura over the world's largest car company.

Hybrid technology is far from an exact science, however, as student engineers found out last week at the Formula Hybrid International competition held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. Dartmouth College's fifth - annual Formula Hybrid competition called on student teams to conceive, design, fabricate, develop and drive formula - style hybrid - powered cars — weighing 180 kilograms to 270 kilograms — in a series of exercises testing their hot rods» acceleration, maneuverability and enduHybrid technology is far from an exact science, however, as student engineers found out last week at the Formula Hybrid International competition held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. Dartmouth College's fifth - annual Formula Hybrid competition called on student teams to conceive, design, fabricate, develop and drive formula - style hybrid - powered cars — weighing 180 kilograms to 270 kilograms — in a series of exercises testing their hot rods» acceleration, maneuverability and enduHybrid International competition held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. Dartmouth College's fifth - annual Formula Hybrid competition called on student teams to conceive, design, fabricate, develop and drive formula - style hybrid - powered cars — weighing 180 kilograms to 270 kilograms — in a series of exercises testing their hot rods» acceleration, maneuverability and enduHybrid competition called on student teams to conceive, design, fabricate, develop and drive formula - style hybrid - powered cars — weighing 180 kilograms to 270 kilograms — in a series of exercises testing their hot rods» acceleration, maneuverability and enduhybrid - powered cars — weighing 180 kilograms to 270 kilograms — in a series of exercises testing their hot rods» acceleration, maneuverability and endurance.

The latest figures from the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a trade group that advocates electric, electric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the car market.

Muhs is optimistic that hybrid lighting, like hybrid cars, will catch on as a prestige technology: «I think it could become a trendy thing to demand, «I want sunlight inside my office.»»

To find out what vehicles on the road are currently emitting, Drozd and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rented 25 gasoline - powered cars, including two hybrids, from residents in the Los Angeles area.

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid cars.

This gap in research has now been closed by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000 battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their vehicles.

U.S. scientists have warned Congress that the significant demand for these minerals for use in high - tech and green technologies (like wind turbines, computer parts, and hybrid car batteries) could lead to shortages.

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

A technology developed by Purdue researchers could provide an «instantly rechargeable» method that is safe, affordable and environmentally friendly for recharging electric and hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy process similar to refueling a car at a gas station.

John Cushman, Purdue University distinguished professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary science and a professor of mathematics, is commercializing a technology that could provide an «instantly rechargeable» method forelectric and hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy process similar to refueling a car at a gas station.

«That's why we are concentrating on building high - technology combustion engine cars, hybrid cars, as well as electric cars powered either by batteries or fuel cells.

They are also likely to push automakers, both foreign and Chinese, to embrace more cutting - edge technology such as gasoline - electric hybrids and all - electric cars.

The rule itself is technology - neutral, but the aggressive target pressures car companies to make and sell all types of electrified vehicles, a category that includes hybrids, plug - in electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles.

Advancing next - generation battery and energy storage technologies for electric and hybrid cars and the electrical grid are critical to help reduce America's reliance on foreign oil and lower energy costs for U.S. consumers.

Valence has already modified a Prius... Marc Kohler, business development manager for Valence's vehicle systems program, says the major automakers appear to be acting disinterested, but it's not the full picture... «Publicly they have to say one thing, but R&D guys are actively researching it,» says Kohler, pointing out that high oil prices, national security issues, the fact that the technology is available, and the slow progress of fuel - cell cars has created an ideal environment for pursuing plug - in hybrids.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

From the retro gaming delights of Super Mario Bros to virtual reality, home - bots and hybrid cars, here is this year's must - have technology

They use computer diagnostic equipment to fix cars, and learn the green technologies of hybrid vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells.

The performance hybrid technology that we first saw in the P1 will find its way into future McLarens, an electric supercar is in the works, and the next generation of cars will offer some driver assist features.

We were trying to negotiate some of the road car technology (hybrid all - wheel drive, etc) but it was settled to do GT3, which doesn't allow some of that technology.

If sales are slow, BMW can still offer plug - in hybrid technology to all crossovers and cars from the 2 - series up.

Ford has long sold more pickup trucks than any other car maker, and Toyota is the undisputed king of hybrid technology.

With such sophisticated technology, the link that Porsche so energetically attempts to draw between the 919 Hybrid's powerplant and that of the 718 Boxster may seem tenuous (one is arranged in a vee while the other is horizontally opposed, for a start), but there are some parallels that stem from the fact that Hitzinger's team work closely with engineers for the production cars.

Quietly, Ford has put a car on the road that essentially enlists Toyota hybrid technology but uses it more cleverly than the originating company did, giving us a sedan that burns even less fuel than the Camry Hybrid over an identical hybrid technology but uses it more cleverly than the originating company did, giving us a sedan that burns even less fuel than the Camry Hybrid over an identical Hybrid over an identical route.

BMW plans to offer a plug - in hybrid version of all its future models, the company confirmed today, based on technologies developed for the Project i cars, the BMW i3 and BMW i8.

The Opel Flextreme is GM's latest hybrid concept wunderkind, a pie - in - the - sky - looking show car that nevertheless boasts some very feasible, very real technology.

BMW ActiveHybrid 535i The ActiveHybrid 5 - series advances BMW's gas / electric technology by allowing the car to operate for brief periods in an electric - only mode, which isn't true of the hybrid 7 - series.

Pushing the boundaries of high - performance technology today means something very different from what that original car embodied, so the formula for the New Sports eXperience is considerably different in the 2017 Acura NSX: The basics include a hybrid powertrain made up of three electric motors, a lithium - ion battery pack, a mid-mounted twin - turbocharged V - 6 engine and a dual - clutch nine - speed automatic transmission.

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What Gass calls the «rarest automotive light - weighting technology in existence» today (he claims there are more suppliers for the LaFerrari KERS hybrid system than for one - piece carbon - fiber wheels) could conceivably become ubiquitous within the next decade, wheels that not just supercars but potentially every car will roll on.

The hint is the RLX Sport Hybrid with the «base» Technology package will start somewhere around $ 60,000, and the Advance package will touch $ 65k when the car goes on sale next spring.

So the question is which is the better overall technology today - and that still is a hybrid car by a big margin, period.

«There was a concern (by the sanctioning bodies) about the increased costs and (other teams) adding things (hybrid technology) onto cars they already had.

Since there isn't a current standard for this kind of technology, Stegland pledged that Volvo will continue research and will, «evaluate the feasibility of the technology in our hybrid and electric car projects.»

But the boxer configuration isn't the most emission friendly, and with Subaru already confirming an electric car for 2021 and its next Forester SUV expected to be offered with a hybrid powertrain, the Japanese firm may be forced to turn to hybrid technology if it's to continue to offer the outright performance expected of its sports saloon.

If fact, the LIDAR (a laser - range - finding technology) mounted atop the Ford Fusion Hybrid can see perfectly well even in pitch darkness with the car's headlights turned off.

The so - called Silk Road project being developed in collaboration with BMW is still a go, and Autocar reports that a larger sports car using a Le Mans - derived hybrid drivetrain combined with supercapacitor technology is on the way.

Based on current Toyota hybrid technology, the system would reportedly boost the car's output to about 250 hp.

Ford is hard at work testing autonomous technology in a fleet of self - driving Fusion Hybrid sedan prototypes, and the automaker is pretty proud of just how well the car's sensors perform.