Sentences with phrase «less than a conventional car»

The Nissan Leaf battery pack is expected to last around a decade, and servicing is significantly less than a conventional car.

Not exact matches

The power lost by these systems in transferring energy could be enough to make electric vehicles and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles less environmentally friendly than conventional cars, says Michael Kintner - Meyer at the Energy and Environment Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

Firstly, an electric motor makes less noise than a conventional engine and secondly, most electric cars are fitted with specially - developed low rolling resistance (EV) tires that make less noise than traditional car tires.

Car exhaust, secondhand smoke, flame retardants, plastic packaging, heavy metals, pesticides, exogenous hormones in conventional meat and dairy, BPA - coated receipts... Unless you're living in a virgin forest, you're going to come into contact with some less - than - optimal chemicals pretty much every day.

Driving two 5 - series - one equipped with Active Steering and one without - back - to - back on an autocross course, we found the car equipped with Active Steering allowed us to hustle through much more quickly and with far less understeer than the car with BMW's conventional, but still excellent, rack - and - pinion setup.

With less distance between the front and back wheels than you'd find on a compact hatchback or sedan, and a usually firmer suspension setup to prevent body lean in the bends, there's always the chance that compact crossovers tend to be noticeably worse to drive than more conventional cars.

Overall, it's clear Hyundai went out of the way to make the Ioniq look like a mainstream car inside and out, as opposed to the images of oddly - shaped, less - than - conventional hybrid vehicles that generally come to mind.

It's a trait of cars in this class to look a little less conventional than their hatchback counterparts and the Kona follows this trend, with a design that's funkier and slightly more eye - catching than more utilitarian Hyundai models we're used to, such as the i20.

Hybrid cars are generally costlier than conventional gasoline cars but also provide substantial improvement in fuel economy, so running cost should be fairly less.

Driven in the same manner as the twin - turbo car, the hybrid returned a fuel consumption of 9.0 L / 100 km — just over a litre less than the conventional LS, which finished up at 10.1 L / 100 km.

BMW says the modular production methods developed for the i brand allow additional models to develop with less cost than conventional cars.

All are impressive in their own way, but only the Ioniq and Prius were designed from the ground up as hybrids, and so are less compromised than those based on conventional petrol or diesel cars.

And Fox Business host Gerri Willis suggested electric cars are not «contributing less to global warming» than conventional cars:

Insurance companies consider the typical sports car driver to be less responsible on the road than drivers of conventional cars.