Sentences with phrase «hybrid cars as»

You'll find hybrid SUVs, sports cars, luxury cars, family cars, and full size hybrid cars as well.

Many manufacturers are aiming to produce more electric and hybrid cars as sales for such cars have been increasing rapidly as experienced by BMW's recent petrol and electric plug - in hybrids, the i8 and the i3.

Not exact matches

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

It's the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric cars and the maker of the popular Prius car, one of the world's top - selling hybrids with over 6 million cars sold worldwide as of January 2017.

Toyota saw sales of its gas - electric hybrid cars, such as the fuel - efficient Prius, rise 50 percent compared with February 2010.

Incentives such as cash subsidies and distribution of free car licencee have boosted sales of electric and plug - in hybrid cars since 2014.

This credit has been in place for some time and is applicable to any hybrid cars purchased as from or on the 1stof January 2006.

The deficit was still 13.6 percent smaller than the ¥ 1.09 trillion deficit recorded a year ago, as exports grew 12.2 percent to ¥ 6.09 trillion helped by strong demand for hybrid cars and semiconductor production machinery from China.

This fact doesn't appear to matter, as a survey of consumers who already own a hybrid or electric vehicle found that more than 75 percent of respondents would likely buy a car manufacturing by Apple...

Over the past several years, high - end hybrids and futuristic electric cars have slowly become more prominent on American roads as consumers realize the impact of fossil fuel consumption on the...

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.

This was a huge reason behind the introduction of the current engine formula, as small - capacity turbo engines with a hybrid element were all the rage in road cars when F1's 1.6 - litre V6 hybrid units were first announced.

The new engine formula will still have to remain technologically relevant to road cars and ensure that F1 stays as the «pinnacle of motorsport», so chances are they'll still be hybrids of some kind.

Dailysportscar reported that the Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 car would act as the safety car for the Porsche Supercup, taking the opportunity to have a dig at F1 and Formula E along the way.

With neither having support from a major car manufacturer though it looks like it'll only be Porsche and Toyota in the expensive Hybrid class for the foreseeable future, as the current regulations there are staying the same until the end of 2019.

The UPPAbaby Vista is described as a hybrid between a sports car and a super-utility vehicle because of the luxurious sleek look as well as the multiple functions it serves for parents of one, two or even three children!

Electric cars were popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and came back in vogue during the late 1990s, finding a spot in the marketplace as gasoline / electric hybrids.

If you're in the market to detail your car, it would be handy to find something that qualifies as a hybrid product.

Tongji University has been instrumental in advancing the R&D field for new energy vehicles (NEVS), which include electric cars as well as hybrid electric and fuel - cell vehicles.

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.

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.

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

One is that replacing utility power is one thing, but [a] lot of the total energy in the country goes in transportation, so another big assumption is that you'd largely have to convert the U.S. passenger fleet to hybrid plug - in cars and trucks, all that, so that essentially you are fueling vehicles with electricity as well.

«Dealer contacts noted increased sales of larger vehicles such as trucks and SUVs, and slower sales for small and hybrid cars,» the bank said.

The success of plug - in hybrid cars such as the Tesla Roadster hinges on building an infrastructure to charge the batteries away from home

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.

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.»»

But fuel cell advocates point out that given the space available in a car frame and the laws of thermodynamics, today's batteries can only provide a limited driving range — 40 miles (65 kilometers) for GM's own Chevrolet Volt — before requiring a recharge, such as by the gasoline motor in a full hybrid like the Toyota Prius.

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.

«Moreover, hybrids can foster public confidence and prevalence of electric mobility, as they have the same range than cars with internal combustion engines, contrary to battery electric vehicles.»

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 host of factors determine the role of electric and hybrid cars in reducing greenhouse gas pollution, such as whether coal is their ultimate fuel source.

Some longtime observers, such as Felix Kramer, the hybrid car proponent and founder of the California Cars Initiative, wonder if GM might also contract with A123 for Volt batteries to expand the supplier base.

As a result, car companies now offer hybrids, electrics and alternative - fuel cars.

«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.

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).

As car buyers turn to fuel - sipping gasoline - electric hybrid vehicles, a new generation of greener hybrids is just coming over the horizon

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.

This makes it more than twice as efficient as conventional hybrid cars, which can only recover about 30 per cent of the braking energy, he says.

Freeman is a strong advocate for plug - in hybrid cars, so that electricity from renewable energy could replace petroleum as the transportation fuel.

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

I realized soon after that I had been advised to avoid hybrid cars, as the amount of EMF could overwhelm my body.

Think of your body as a hybrid gas - electric car.

Grip Games, a privately owned developer and publisher of games for game consoles and high - end portable devices, together with True Axis Pty. Ltd and bitComposer Entertainment AG, announced today it will launch Jet Car Stunts, a racing / platformer hybrid game for the PS3, PSVita, PS4 and Xbox 360 as a downloadable game throughout North and South America, Europe and other territories this spring.

A seventy - two - page manual for living, if you're willing to reimagine the cars as hybrids.

For better results, you need to use the Ioniq Plug - In Hybrid as a commuter car: Drive to work on EV power (provided you work less than 29 miles from home), charge it at work, drive it home on EV power and charge it there, too.

The 12v battery is still needed for same stuff in a hybrid car such as starting the engine, so you would need thick wires still, no?

Toyota is rushing to increase production capacity for the new Prius c hatchback, as demand for the hybrid car soars both in the U.S. and Japan.

The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 now has much more ammo for competing in the horsepower wars, as its whopping 650 hp makes it one of the most powerful cars sold in the U.S.. It's bested only by the 651 - hp Ferrari FF, the 662 - hp Ford Shelby GT500, the 700 - hp Lamborghini Aventador LP 700 - 4, the 730 - hp Ferrari F12 berlinetta, and wild hybrid hypercars including the 887 - hp Porsche 918 Spyder, 890 - hp McLaren P1, and 963 - hp Ferrari LaFerrari.

Toyota is rushing to increase production capacity for the new Prius c hatchback, as demand for the hybrid car soars both in the U.S.