Sentences with phrase «hybrid cars with»

Diaz is a well - known and long - time driver of a Toyota Prius and was in a public service announcement for hybrid cars with Gwyneth Paltrow, so she's no stranger to the green scene.
Gas - electric hybrid cars with an enhanced battery and a plug - in capacity, combined with investment in wind farms feeding cheap electricity into the grid, permit most daily driving to be done with electricity, and at a cost equivalent of less than $ 1 - a-gallon gasoline.
Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»
The experts concluded that electric and hybrid cars with lithium - ion drive - system batteries are just as safe as vehicles with conventional drive systems.
Created by a team at ED2, Toyotas European design studio in the South of France, the C - HR Hy - Power Concept paves the path to a hybrid car with sporty credentials.
Another overpriced hybrid car with low resale value.
For shoppers who want a nice, comfy hybrid car with the easy loading and unloading capabilities of a hatchback, the Lexus 200h might be one of the best such offerings.
This is primarily for the purpose of endowing the hybrid car with adept dynamics rather than crash safety per se.
This car is best suited for those who are looking for a hybrid car with sporty performance.
The 2018 Toyota Prius Prime from West Kendall Toyota in Miami, FL — serving Coral Gables, Doral, Hialeah, Hollywood, Homestead, The Hammocks, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Kendall, and West Kendall — is a fully - capable, plug - in hybrid car with comfort and convenience features for the modern driver.
In some sense this review is like comparing a hybrid car with a gasoline only one without the mileage comparisons!
Looking for something more comfortable to stay in than a tent, this Australian modifies his hybrid car with a quirky caravan.
And if it's on a hybrid car with regenerative braking then you get a lot of that energy back.
Then I could construct a carbon negative wood gas hybrid car with mobile electricity, i.e. exchangeable batteries.

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According to Henderson, this points towards «a new type of vehicle, a hybrid vehicle that can drive conventionally, or can hover... [with] all the freedom of a car and all the efficiency of a train.»
The company predicts that BEVs will comprise less than 10 % of the alternative propulsion car market over the next decade, compared with 70 % for traditional hybrids.
Ridesharing companies don't let drivers work out of other people's cars, but the program designed by Peers partners ridesharing drivers with cars through the hybrid rental company Breeze.
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'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.
Toyota saw sales of its gas - electric hybrid cars, such as the fuel - efficient Prius, rise 50 percent compared with February 2010.
The pictured self - driving car is a hybrid Ford Fusion that has been equipped with radars, laser scanners, and high - res cameras, among other sensors.
[90] In this regard, trappers are no different than people who avoid replacing their gas guzzling cars with more efficient hybrids.
The current engines are much more road relevant with their hybrid systems and electric cars are becoming much more common, but Verstappen hopes F1 doesn't go fully - electric for some time:
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.
With the standard of electric vehicles becoming more impressive and the release of hybrid and fully - electric road cars on a rapid increase, it makes total sense that manufacturers are keen to associate themselves with a fully - electric racing serWith the standard of electric vehicles becoming more impressive and the release of hybrid and fully - electric road cars on a rapid increase, it makes total sense that manufacturers are keen to associate themselves with a fully - electric racing serwith a fully - electric racing series.
Now that Porsche isn't racing the 919 Hybrid LMP1 car in the WEC anymore, it's decided to make it ridiculously fast with the aim of beating a load of track records
With the new 2014 hybrid regulations came a whole new development curve and this video shows just how much faster Formula 1 cars have got since then.
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 only problem is that the diversity of the historics with their screaming V8s is going to be a tough act to follow for the 2018 cars with their hybrid engines and Halos...
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«I drive a hybrid car, and my family recycles everything,» Ernst said in a debate with Braley.
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.
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.
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.
So you can get this roughly eightfold leverage (three - to fourfold in the case of a hybrid) from the wheels back to the fuel tank by starting with the physics of the car, making it lighter and with lower drag.
With the market for hybrid automobiles picking up steam, it makes sense for tomorrow's engineers to get a feel for designing and building cars powered by a combination of internal combustion and electricity.
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.
General Motors is hoping to gain an advantage over its competitors» hybrid car offerings with the Chevy Volt, an extended - range electric vehicle.
The ng Connect Program (led by telecommunications provider Alcatel — Lucent) presented its vision of the so - called «connected car» on Tuesday in New York City — a white Toyota Prius hybrid tricked out with access to a 4G («fourth generation») broadband wireless network.
«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.»
In consumer electronics, it is a relatively minor inconvenience to replace an old battery with a new one every couple of years, but this would be unacceptable in a hybrid car, especially given the large size of the battery pack and the difficulty involved in replacing it.
If you're buying a new car in an urban center with bumper - to - bumper traffic, check out a hybrid.
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.
The Chevrolet Volt, which GM plans to introduce in two years (reportedly at a mid - $ 30,000 base price), is a new breed of gasoline - electric hybrid, cars powered by a battery - powered electric motor that can be recharged on the road with an internal combustion engine.
The angular concept car sported a lot of modern - sounding tech: a hybrid electric / gas power train that drove all four wheels, an onboard computer with digital displays for everything from the speedometer to the radio, and electronic maps to help you navigate traffic snarls.
Even hybrid cars need four of them apiece, and the global love affair with the automobile isn't ending anytime soon.
Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid power trains and even fuel - cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.
They are developing a hybrid car equipped with a kinetic - energy - recovery system similar to those used in last year's Formula 1 season.
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