Sentences with phrase «of conventional cars»

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

This model sets itself apart with All - electric powertrain, driving characteristics of a conventional car, and 107 - mile nominal range on an 8 - hour charge We have a skilled and knowledgeable sales staff with many years of experience fulfilling our customers needs.

The key now is to shift more road freight to electrified rail, increase the use of light rail and metro subways within cities, and accelerate the replacement of conventional cars with plug - in hybrids and all - electric vehicles — and to run them all largely on electricity generated from renewable sources.

The car follows other Volvo Cross Country models and indeed an industry - wide trend of offering raised, plastic - clad versions of conventional cars to bridge the gap between regular vehicles and the popular crossover options.

The problem with autonomous cars is that those behind them are scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs - but not competent drivers (so just like the designers of conventional cars)- they are so obsessed with technology and what is possible, they fail to consider what is appropriate and practical.

For that $ 50 grand, however, you'll get two cars (sort of): BMW promises that it will offer use of a conventional car for longer road trips.

Mercedes is aiming to meet the rising demand for pickup trucks with the refinement and convenience of a conventional car.

Honda executives say their truck, which features a four - door, five - seat cabin and a 5 - foot truck bed, integrates frame and body for the «unibody» construction of a conventional car rather than the body - on - frame construction of a conventional pickup.

No longer an oddball novelty, it's more of a conventional car that just happens to run without gas.

Stop - start is available to many manufacturers, many parts suppliers are now beginning to offer complete subsystems, Delphi and Robert Bosche among them, and it will soon be a common feature of all conventional cars as well as HEVs, with in a few years.

Even a strongly biased study by the UCS shows that electric cars, on average, presently produce about half of the emissions of conventional cars in a cradle - to - grave analysis.

The «B» setting on the drive selector offers an intermediate setting that increases regenerative braking over that in the standard mode, which mimics the behavior of a conventional car with an automatic transmission.

The regulations are the latest changes to the state's three - year - old Advanced Clean Cars program, a package of existing requirements for manufacturers that seek to cut smog - forming emissions and greenhouse gases from tailpipes of conventional cars and create a new market for carbon - zero ones.

This model sets itself apart with All - electric powertrain, driving characteristics of a conventional car, and 107 - mile nominal range on an 8 - hour charge

The gasoline engine serves as an on - board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.