Sentences with phrase «in a conventional car»

Quiet Car 1 is a 2 + 2 seater car with all the basics you would find in a conventional car including electric windows and a CD player.

BMW ActiveHybrid technology uses energy converted into heat and therefore wasted in conventional cars through the operation and use of the brakes.

According to professor Bill David, who leads the STFC research team, «a small amount of hydrogen mixed with ammonia is sufficient to provide combustion in a conventional car engine.»

One kilometre in a conventional car with a fuel consumption of 9 litres per 100 kilometres (26 miles per US gallon), with gasoline at $ 3.60 per gallon, costs more than 8 cents.

Like the Cadillac ELR, the hybrid CT6 will have steering wheel - mounted paddles to activate on - demand electricity regeneration, calling up deceleration similar to a manual downshift in a conventional car.

«Because the majority of the car's structural strength comes through its floor, it has been possible to use apertures in the body far larger than would be wise in conventional cars,» Aston Martin said.

South Korean - based Hankook Tire may be well known in motorsports, but they are far from a household name in the conventional car world.

Given current trends, this assumption is considered to be too optimistic without strong policy in countries such as China and India where growth in conventional car ownership is on the rise.

When power demands are low, parallel hybrids also utilize the motor as a generator for supplemental recharging, much like an alternator in conventional cars.

Its NVH levels are about half that found in conventional cars, making the hybrid LS one of the quietest automobiles ever built, if not the quietest.

BMW ActiveHybrid technology uses energy that would be normally converted into heat through the brakes, and therefore wasted in conventional cars.

In a conventional car, acceleration uses the most fuel, cruising uses a moderate amount, and coasting effectively uses none.

Yet a further advantage is that the a / c compressor initiates its cooling function much earlier than in a conventional car, the air conditioning in BMW ActiveHybrid 7 thus offering qualities unique the world over in terms of function and effi ciency only possible with the high - performance lithium - ion battery.

On the way down, in a conventional car, you lose all that energy — it just [disappears] out the window or to your brake shoes, to friction.