Sentences with phrase «many gasoline cars»

«Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day,» wrote Musk in a 2014 blog post.

As electric cars become more and more common, and as their batteries can hold more and more energy to allow for a range comparable to that of a gasoline car, the main obstacle remains: how to charge the batteries as fast as you can fill in your gas tank.

Not all electric cars can be charged at a rate of 80 miles per charging hour, but even if they could, achieving 400 miles (the equivalent of an average gasoline car gas tank capacity) would take 5 hours of charging.

«The noteworthy thing about Tesla,» Musk says, «is that it's the first electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car as a product.»

Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day.

«The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars,» Musk told a crowd in Los Angeles on Thursday.

«The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars,» he added.

Musk went on to cite the ownership cost of the Model S, should it enter production, as «similar to a gasoline car with a sticker price of about $ 35,000» once the lower cost of electricity versus the likely future price of gasoline was taken into account.

«The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smack down to gasoline cars» says Musk before a cheering crowd at the event.

When I ask him what would happen if gasoline cars simply continued to improve in efficiency, he says, «I think people should be a lot more worried than they are,» explaining that even if carbon dioxide levels remain what they are today, we won't feel the ill effects until at least 2035.

Moreover, electric cars won't simply become cheap by magic because, unlike gasoline cars, they are limited by their batteries.

The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars.

In the lab (at the Paul Scherrer Institute, near Zurich in Switzerland), «gasoline cars emitted on average 10 times more carbonaceous PM at 22 °C and 62 times more at -7 °C compared to diesel cars,» the researchers noted in their study.

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That said, it is true that older diesel cars do pollute more than gasoline cars, because they don't have DPFs, and diesel cars in general emit far more nitrogen oxides, which cause smog and acid rain, the study also noted.

Although it's still a long shot, the idea that FCEVs could one day replace conventional gasoline cars seems more likely today than ever before.

Particulate matter in city centers isn't just caused by diesel vehicles without filters; gasoline cars also play a role — especially during cold start.

For example, European Union standards favoring fuel - efficient diesel cars over gasoline cars may lead to more warming, because diesel engines release 40 to 250 times as much soot as gasoline engines.

But electricity, biofuels, and hydrogen (in 20 to 30 years) can replace more gasoline cars steadily every year from now on.

It's no secret that Volkswagen cranked up the incentives on its remaining gasoline cars late last year after the automaker had to stop selling its diesel models due to emissions problems.

Yes, they have catalytic converters equivalent to the ones in gasoline cars.

Electric cars simply are more convenient than gasoline cars and will only become more so.

Most recent gasoline cars have a direct ignition, also called coil on plug, system where each spark plug has its own ignition coil.

I wonder how long it would be until all gasoline cars are replaced with electronic ones.

But the most important factor here is that, more than any electric car that has come before it, the Model S feels and drives like a gasoline car of the same price.

However since this an relative old gasoline car is should not apply here.

And its got the best MPGs of any non-hybrid gasoline car, 44 MPG on the highway with the CVT.

(The gasoline car is nose - heavy at 61/39.)

So why isn't everyone running out to get one, or at least giving it the same consideration as the gasoline car?

It is a consistent vehicle and it allows me to drive the car further between fill ups than I would be able to do with a gasoline car.

If electric vehicles could refill their «tank» in a few minutes, the same or less amount of time it would take to refill that 100MPG gasoline car, there would be a whole lot less concern about the 100 mile range of the Ford Focus Electric, Nissan Leaf, and other electric vehicles on the horizon.

(Diesels were once louder, slower and dirtier than gasoline cars.)

Talk about a bold claim from Mazda, as the Japanese automaker has said its next Mazda2 subcompact would get 70 miles per gallon, making it the most fuel - efficient gasoline car on the road.

It's also the most fuel - efficient non-hybrid gasoline car on the road.

We are the highest fuel economy of any hybrid, of any gasoline car without a plug sold in the US.

When we introduced the i3 with the smaller battery, it beat every single gasoline car by up to 50 % in terms of CO2 footprint,» said Dick Arnold, head of product management at BMW i.

This makes the hybrid feel more like a regular gasoline car on the road.

The Golf doesn't offer a hybrid model and many gasoline cars now come close to the diesel's fuel economy.

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

And forget shifters, which even in modern gasoline cars are merely electronic controls, the Ioniq Electric uses a clever button pod for Park, Reverse, Neutral and Drive.

In recent years, diesel car sales have matched or exceeded gasoline car sales; in 2014 and 2015, diesel models represented 50.1 % and 48.5 % UK market share respectively.

Gasoline cars don't make this kind of clatter, which might turn off some potential buyers.

When you press the brake pedal, there's only a modestly different feel from a gasoline car, even though under light braking the stopping force comes from the resistance of the generator.

JATO data for 18 markets shows gasoline cars accounting for 55 % of total registrations in Q1 vs. 48 % a year ago with diesel cars sinking from 46 % over the same period in 2017 to 38 % now.

It is worth noting that a Tesla vehicle is over five times less likely to experience a fire than the average gasoline car and that there have been zero serious injuries or deaths for any reason ever, fire or otherwise, in a Model S. Over the course of more than 100 million miles driven in almost every possible terrain, weather and crash conditions, the Tesla Model S has consistently protected its driver and passengers, achieving the best safety track record of any car on the road.

Think smartphones in the past decade, color TVs in the 1970s, or even gasoline cars in the early 20th century.

I think that the best way is to develop populic trasfer and change car's style to electric car or hybird car, make them cheaper than gasoline cars.

So, if you could create liquid hydrocarbons that are compatible with gasoline cars, then the adoption cycle would be a lot easier than switching over to electric or hydrogen or some other type of fuel for cars.

He thought GM would just keep going after the EV1, and eventually the EV3 or EV4 would be good enough and cheap enough for most people and that would be it, gasoline cars would be on the way out over time, and Musk could focus on going to Mars and other projects.

6) Gasoline cars would never interest Apple.