Music can make short and
long car trips much more enjoyable!
Not exact matches
Stuff it with as little or as
much absorbency as you need to get you through a quick
trip to the store, a
long car ride, or maybe even overnight.
On our last
trip we were in the
car for literally hours before even one mention of a need for a break, or inquiry about how
much longer the
trip would be.
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).
There are moments of real beauty in this movie — particular a bravura panning shot of every character in their own personalized train
car, whether or not they're actually on the train — but the protagonists are the last people you'd ever want to be seated next to on a
long trip, so watching them in a movie isn't
much fun either.
«This
car is just too
much on a
long trip.
Overtaking is easy with so
much torque on tap while road noise doesn't become a nuisance until you reach 100 mph, making this a worthy
car for
longer trips.
You're certainly not driving the
car as
much this time (or for as
long periods), but you still are listening to plenty of road -
trip conversations.
In fact, a lot of times
cars are the better option as
long as you have more passengers: «A 1000 km
trip alone in a big
car could emit as
much as 250 kg of carbon dioxide (CO2), the researchers calculate, while a train
trip or carpooling in a small
car could emit as little as 50 kg of CO2 for each traveler» (source).
In the meantime, technology that tracks traffic patterns and helps redirect drivers to get the most fuel efficiency out of a
trip goes a
long way in minimizing how
much energy we consume in everything from personal
cars to UPS trucks.