Sentences with phrase «lesser vehicles on»

With just the mildest movement of my foot on the accelerator pedal, I was effortlessly gliding through the traffic mix this morning on my way to work, dispensing with semis, crossovers with distracted moms behind the wheel, and all the other lesser vehicles on the road with ease.

Not exact matches

Andurand, who runs oil hedge fund Andurand Capital Management LLP, wrote in a string of tweets on Sunday that companies may be less willing to risk investment in long term oil projects because of low crude barrel prices and a predicted peak in electric vehicle demand.

«Wrapify is a great concept, and moves to market very quickly,» says Kacie Jackson, a marketing manager at Petco, who said the company had vehicles on the road in less than two weeks.

«Due to the fear of collecting thousands of signatures needed to sign off on the types of strategic decisions common among pre-IPO companies, higher - quality issuers — particularly those with other financing options — are less likely to crowdfund without a single - purpose vehicle,» Tommarello says.

A monthly subscription that's less than a car payment (apparently average in the US is $ 489) offering Zipcar - style car access and on - demand rides with a lower per - mile rate is really compelling, and makes it much easier to insert the autonomous vehicles these companies are working on anyways.

Going forward, the emphasis in the U.S. is going to be on the navy, aircraft and missiles, and less on tanks and land vehicles, says Stark.

«The vehicles are less quirky than they once were, but Volvo is really building on its legendary safety reputation by embracing a particular attitude toward luxury and by advancing the high - tech cause.

In addition, lower fuel prices and lower tax on fuel in Alberta means consumers have less incentive to purchase smaller or alternate - fuel vehicles, he says.

Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens of millions of dollars per mile.

And city streets — which are being overcrowded by the influx of ride - hailing vehicles, according to some reports — could become less congested as a ride - sharing fleet moves commuters around en masse, rather than individuals relying on their own cars to get to work.

The goal is to have less cars on the road or, at the very least, less ownership of vehicles.

Hiroomi Kinoshita, President & Chief Executive Officer at Four Link Systems, Inc., who's worked on the creation of next - generation smart vehicle since 2008, said he was also hoping to appeal to a younger generation of drivers who are less interested in cars than previous generations.

It's best to spend less than 20 % of your take - home pay on vehicle costs.

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.

People stop buying gadgets, they eat out less, and they put less mileage on their vehicles.

Vancouver sits less than 750 miles from the Canadian oil sands but it may as well be on another continent for vehicle drivers.

The Atlas - V is also (currently) less expensive to launch, on a cost - per - kilogram basis, than either of Orbital's commercial launch vehicles: capable of carrying 8,250 kilos to LEO, the «baseline» Atlas - V costs $ 109M per launch, which breaks down to roughly $ 13,200 a kilogram.

Auto Parts With EVs and autonomous vehicles approaching on the horizon, less auto parts will be needed per capita.

For example, a car has to have at least three wheels (some cars I've seen on TV from the 60's only had three, some semi's have 18, and any vehicle with less than three is a motorcycle or a bicycle).

Creatives feel they have no choice - it is this inevitable force that drives us - we are simply vehicles for something that is no less divine that what goes on in a primal forest or church or synagogue or birth or heroic act.

With all the geegaws that take up so much space underneath the hoods of most vehicles today, it would be hard to warm up a Big Mac on the manifold, much less do any cooking on it.

Tyres that don't have enough air in them have reduced grip on the road, meaning the driver has less control of their vehicle.

When a child is rear facing it makes a vehicle impact less jarring on their fragile bodies and keeps the risk of whip lash lower.

«A direct consequence of this project would be less productive man hours wasted on the roads due to traffic gridlock and bad roads due to heavy duty vehicles.

A Fellow of both the Academy and IET, Professor Roger Kemp of Lancaster University, said: «The side of electric vehicle development most often in the public eye is the launch of new hi - tech vehicles at motor shows, but ensuring a hassle - free adoption of thousands and eventually millions of plug - in cars will require concerted effort on much less spectacular developments.

Other city employees who misused their work vehicles less frequently than Romano and Youssef have been fined or suspended by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, or at times put on probation.

But Cusick told The Post on Monday that while he called in the state to patrol the SIE because the carpool lanes were continually being used by motorists with less than the required three people in the vehicle, «There was no mention of the NYPD or the NYFD.

Savage said the value of the stolen items often weighs far less on car owners than the sense of personal violation and the inconvenience and expense associated with repairing the damage to a vehicle.

In the bipartisan 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, we increased new fuel economy standards for vehicles, along with other provisions to increase energy efficiency, save drivers money, reduce pollution, and strengthen our security by making America less dependent on foreign oil.

Despite the prospect of less reliance on oil, electric vehicles are not proving popular with the car - buying public

For example, Gaia is now $ 140 million cheaper thanks to a less costly spacecraft that will fit on a smaller launch vehicle.

So depending on the route that vehicle runs, the fuel may make more or less economic and environmental sense.

«Increasing the life and performance of rechargeable batteries will drive down overall electric vehicle costs and make us less reliant on foreign sources of energy.»

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

His colleague Mar Álvarez - Pedrerol goes on to explain «The solution is the same for everyone: reduce the use of private vehicles for the school run and create less polluted and safer home - to - school routes.»

Ground vehicles, on the other hand, are more energy efficient, but slower and less mobile.

To work out whether the force of gravity on the car was less than or equal to the static friction force holding it on the wall, they needed to include a range of factors including the mass of the vehicle, the car's speed and its centripetal force.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

If and when nuclear explosives are less threatening to us on the ground, there might be reasons to establish an Orion - based Deep Space Force — a small fleet of unmanned vehicles, stationed in high orbit under international control, on standby to deflect meteors or other objects that threaten Earth.

They are fun to drive, are less expensive and more convenient to fuel than gasoline vehicles, are better for the environment, promote local jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

I spend less on food monthly than what it costs to have a car payment, insurance, gas and repairs — and my body is a far more precious vehicle than any car!

Next, there is a variety of vehicle types which consist of berserkers that can ram into foes, fighters that are mobile yet lack defense, and heavy units that are less mobile yet can attack twice on each turn (to the left and right side of the unit).

Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life - on - the - margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres.

The war on drugs escalates to war under President and former ghostbuster Ernie Hudson in the 1999 straight - to - video Ice - T vehicle Stealth Fighter (less a disaster film than a disaster).

Your main complaint seems to be that Howard likes, and focuses on, the admittedly more likable but, in your view, less interesting racer more than the racer you think the movie should have focused on, ultimately rendering the film a star vehicle rather than the character study in obsession you wish it were.

One of the interesting things Codemasters did in this one was they decided to take less emphasis on which car to use for certain tracks, but instead to putting emphasis on customizing your vehicle to do what it will need to do, to win the race.

by Bill Chambers Peter Chelsom may have sold his soul when he joined the ranks of Lasse Hallstrom and John Madden to become a house director for Miramax, but going to work at Disney — on a feature - film vehicle for one of the company's biggest brands, no less — is a mercenary move, pure and simple.

On paper, the case was convincing; the first feature — Sylvester Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd — was universally panned, new lead Karl Urban was less than successful in his last marquee outing (2005's Doom), and reports of disharmony emanated from the set during production.