Sentences with phrase «of idling cars»

I know that tornadoes dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.

City councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson voiced support for the resolution, contending that new plan would be worth a try if it could alleviate the burden of alternate side regulations for drivers and possibly improve asthma rates by reducing the emissions of idling cars.

Those services made use of idle cars and empty rooms to greatly expand the marketplace.

Not exact matches

It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

But the quick pickup way of life is increasingly under threat: Tim Hortons has faced flak because of the emissions created by idling cars and several Montreal boroughs are considering banning the building of new drive - thru outlets.

OK, so that's pretty technical, but essentially it boils down to this: the ultracapacitor / lithium - ion battery replaces the traditional lead - acid battery in the hood of your car, and it stops and starts when the car is idling, reducing both emissions and fuel use.

Our cars, many household items and even our homes spend much of their time idle, empty or unused.

Even if a computer «learns» (like certain models of a car that does when the battery is disconnected and then reconnected, to «relearn» its idle settings), where did the original code come from?

From using reusable bags, turning of the water when you brush your teeth or letting your car idle — there is something you can do.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

The rest of it is lost in the engine, drivetrain, and accessories, or wasted while the car is idling.

So you could make the growl of my beat - up, 13 - year - old car idling at a traffic light into something symphonic?

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Think about like the engine of a car that in a safe haven would be in a nice, slow, idle, not stressed at all versus in your garage a car where there's somebody who has their foot all the way down on the gas pedal and so that engine is just accelerated at much higher speed than it ought to be for a car that's parked in a garage.

It is the equivalent of figuring out how much gas an idle car consumes while parked.

Realistically, a large part of our economy is vehicle - based so we can't just not drive, but what we can do is stop idling our cars.

The OEM battery in my 2008 Jetta SE 2.5 L has been nearly fully discharged one month back (had insufficient surface charge after a prolonged use without the engine running, but leaving it idle for 20 minutes made the car start again), then worked fine for a few days afterwards (but without being subjected to much charge), but then was discharged again after only a quarter of the prior abuse (since it was probably not fully charged since the prior discharge, me underestimating the driving time it would take to bring the battery back to fuller life, plus possibly missing out on water, as I found out later).

Nothing hit the windshield, I was idling in front of my house warming the car up when it happened.

The 335bhp twin - turbo straight - six starts with a pleasing growl and settles into a rumblelicious idle — good news given the fears that blowers would deny this new breed of M - car a memorable voice.

Additionally, much of a cop car's life is spent idling and wasting fuel; this would become mute with a Model S or any EV.

My car has been overheating at idle after a long period of time - perhaps 20 - 30 minutes in traffic.

It has then been driven for a couple of short trips, then sat idle for 5 days, and read 12.1 V on the fifth day of being left undisturbed, and being able to start the car just fine.

While its 444bhp peak power output sounds more than healthy, it's clearly overshadowed — numerically at least — by its 470bhp Mercedes - AMG C63 rival, and some way short of the more expensive, 503bhp, C63 S. However, our considerable experience of its coupe relation suggests it's the 443 lb ft developed from just 1900rpm that will mark this out as a truly fast car: expect colossal shove from just above idle.

I will not let my car idle for more then 5 minutes, of because if I had it parked for 12 hours irrespective of what the weather is.

I didn't really care much until yesterday when the car got hot abnormally (3/4 of the gauge, usually 1/4) while idling, though the heat did lessen when the car moving, but it does imply the car has a trouble.

Your car idles high in the cold because of poor air / fuel ratio.

All Steamed Up — Mike Clark was just an old - car person who liked steam until a Stanley Model H Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster took over his life / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Two / Americans to the Rear — In Part Two of his series on American rear eninged cars Karl Ludvigsen follows the involvement of Ford Motor Co / Commercially Speaking / No Idle Boast — Anthony Pritchard investigates the Jowett Javelin and Jupiter and concludes that both were outstanding designs marred by inadequate development / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / The Miller's Tale — A straight eight Miller racing car was to be seen in the Marendaz works in 1935.

One of our cars has a bit of a rough idle which disappears at about 1,000 RPM.

At idle the engine sounds much like you'd expect of a muscle car, with a loud and low burble.

Double tapping the button, however, immediately changes the tone and, even at idle, there's a deep blare from the back of the car.

Car always has 10 - 12 degrees of ignition timing at idle on cold start then progressively drops to 0 degrees ignition timing at idle once reaching full operating temperature and engine fan cuts in.

My check engine light is on, the car ran out of battery and after jumping it, it is running kind of poorly, idling rough, etc..

And the common symptoms of TPS (e.g. sputtering while idle) are occurring in my car.

This would eliminate much of the need for the popular remote start feature installed in many cars, which is crackerjack in the winter but wastes gallons of fuel as the car idles while the driver takes a shower or eats breakfast.

At idle, the car's idle control system attempts to maintain a constant idle, but can only do so with a finite amount of torque.

Note that especially for old cars, there is idle air control valve that can let only a small amount of air through it.

People around me didn't like the diesel car idling, so they got me through to the top of the hill, and several helped push me for a bump start after the jam freed up.

Normally the car idles in park about around 700 - 800 rpms and was showing a long term fuel trim of about -10 %.

This vehicle's automatic is still of the torque converter variety — now with eight speeds rather than six — but M engineers have eliminated its idle creep so that it feels more like the dual - clutch transmission in other M cars.

I have found this type of drive to be highly effective in curing detonation («ping»), poor acceleration, poor idle, excessive gas mileage in my cars, especially since I, too, only drive slowly in the city.

That and they said that they fixed the problem, but the car idled hard literally the first time I tried to drive it out of the parking lot and stalled at the next light.

Within a week of running out of gas my car began «stumble» and idle rough.

Edit: Coolant in some cars passes through a type of fast idle valve that raises and lowers a plunger (connected to some type of heat reactive wax that closes the airway fully when the coolant is at OT) through a tube that feeds more or less air through the engine raising or lowering its speed.

As the other user stated, the only thing it'll affect is the ECU, stuff like Idle speed, or different settings will be reconfigured, my only word of caution is when you put the battery back in and turn the car on, let it idle for a while so it can reconfigure everything such as idle speed so it doesn't run as roIdle speed, or different settings will be reconfigured, my only word of caution is when you put the battery back in and turn the car on, let it idle for a while so it can reconfigure everything such as idle speed so it doesn't run as roidle for a while so it can reconfigure everything such as idle speed so it doesn't run as roidle speed so it doesn't run as rough.

While the car is idling in D and stopped, the automatic transmission is sort of in a «ready - and - waiting» mode, with the torque converter partially engaged.

After a couple of months my car began to idle roughly at stops but not always.

Engine braking happens because when you let off the gas pedal at speed the car makes the choice to provide 0 fuel to the engine allowing the engine to be rotated by the rotation of the tires, unlike when stopped and you release the gas pedal it maintains an idle.

In road cars, relatively mild cams are used which allow for smooth running and plenty of low down torque so that it's easy to pull away from near idle at a very small throttle opening without stalling.

I don't have corroboration or evidence on this next bit, which is just my speculation, but I suspect that there is just a stack up of various tolerances and timings in the system and gains set in the automatic idle throttle controller in the car's computer that for some engines under some conditions stack up in a way that causes the engine to shut off unpredictably.

«Though initially it was the smoothness and refinement that impressed me — the totally silent idling engine and the ease with which the car moved away from a standstill, the quietness of the suspension.»