Sentences with phrase «of idling the engine»

«How behavioral science can help tackle problem of idling engines.»

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The EPA has long been involved in pollution reduction and air quality improvement by testing and creating alternatives to engine idling of the 15.5 million trucks estimated to be operating in the U.S.

In the intervening 17 hours, a compounding series of misfortunes — a broken de-icing machine, frozen engines and brakes, a lack of gates at the terminal, a plane that idled so long it had to refuel, a crew that worked so long it needed to be replaced — turned the flight into an almanac of the indignities of modern air travel.

You can set the device to sound an alarm when the engine RPM exceeds a certain number, when idling longer than a certain period of time, when breaking a specified speed limit, when it senses dangerous driving on the part of the operator, when the seatbelt is not used and when reversing.

Drivers who let their vehicles idle prevent the engine from reaching its optimal cylinder pressure and temperature causing a large amount of costly maintenance issues.

In just one hour, an idling engine can use more than a half - gallon of fuel and can cause the equivalent of 30 miles of engine wear and tear.

Early Friday morning at Long Beach, these five drivers and four others climbed aboard their boats, warmed up their engines and idled to a starting line hidden in the murk of a smoggy dawn.

The intelligent use of MMH could provide the opportunity to shut down the engine, or shift it to lower power, during these idle periods.

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.

Big - brained: An engine at high idle, the brain needed more energy than plant foods could provide, so H. erectus became a hunter and consumer of meat.

Turning off the engine when idling, making sure tires are properly inflated, coasting to red lights rather than slamming on the brakes and slowly accelerating from a stop — all can boost fuel efficiency as evidenced by hypermilers, those who have mastered the art of traveling hundreds of miles on a few gallons of gas.

The maximum thermal efficiency of present - day gasoline engines for automobiles is on the order of 30 %, believed to fall to a level as low as 15 % in states from idling to low - speed city driving.

Electrified Ports: In addition, lots of the pollution from ships is given off while they are in port, their engines idling to produce on - board power.

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's a wound of a different kind, but it still needs healing so that our «engine» doesn't have to idle so high.

The filmmaker doesn't take his foot off of the accelerator, keeping things in constant motion even in the off moment when the vehicles at the center of this particular Road Runner cartoon take a brief second or two to idle their engines.

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).

And that idling is one of the hardest things for an engine to do, tuning wise.

Powertrain engineer Patrick Müller rides shotgun with us as we take the wheel, and he points out slight imperfections he intends on fixing in the last year of development, like the occasional harsh shifts from the transmission and a lugging from the engine at idle rpm.

The OEM aftermarket exhaust kit spices up the engine sound of both Infiniti models, providing a more robust snarl and a raspier idle.

I was just searching for an answer to find how the idle speed of an engine is decided and who makes that decision.

I've read more opinions over the years suggesting that idling more than a couple of minutes is actually bad for your engine than I've read that it's good.

How many people really know that you need to idle the engine for a certain amount of time, to allow said turbos to spool down, before shutting the engine.

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.

The erratic idle, punkish slang, and addiction to revs typical of the Alfa 4C engine?

I managed 15.3 mpg during our 300 - mile day, including at least an hour of engine idle time.

None of the A8's luxuriousness is taken away because it sucks up diesel instead of gasoline; the engine is quiet at idle and emits a strangely powerful, non-diesel soundtrack during heavy acceleration.

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The symptoms of engine - valves that are too tight, are as follows: Bad fuel economy Difficult to start Stalling idle The manual for my scooter...

A lack of air would cause rough or erratic idle, and lack of spark would stall the engine, or at least cause it to stumble, shake, and generally sound unhealthy.

Also, the idling speed of the engine still worked and I could slowly inch into a safe spot.

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

After warming the engine 1 minute, it runs and idles fine the rest of the day.

Like with all AMGs, the engine starts with a boom, pulses at idle and roars with every prod of the throttle.

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.

This mode kept the gasoline engine on most of the time to charge the battery (even while idling off - throttle) and gave us the most regenerative braking possible.

Imagine an unsilenced Harley Davidson (come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever heard a silenced one...) then add a touch more flatulence, a bit of idling Merlin engine and a whole lot more decibels and you have the AeroMax's barely legal exhaust note.

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..

Your vehicle, which is old in terms of engine controls and technology, will tend to try and advance spark at idle and run a little lean for emissions purposes.

Okay, so you're saying that the idle control system provides a low rate of fuel supply to the engine, but only while the clutch pedal is pressed down or the transmission is in neutral?

I will say for the root cause of condensor / engine cooling fan inoperative what you will see is terrible A / C performance at idle and good performance at 60 MPH.

Also Engine would stop working when I pressed on gas or spontaneously after few minutes of running on idle.

Other than the rough idle and hard starting there's no problem, the engine has plenty of power at high rpms and doesn't seem to be misfiring, both of which I think it would have problems with if the fuel pump wasn't providing sufficient pressure or volume.

Listen carefully around the brake booster (the large round object more or less in front of the driver in the engine compartment), I suspect that there is a leak that is causing the idle mixture to change, probably too lean as air is being pulled in when the brake is applied.

What I was told is that the idle is high and flooding the engine in the morning or when it sits awhile, and that the idle being high is the cause of the clunk.

More than one driver thought that the engine's gravelly idle sounded almost like that of a diesel, although most were not bothered by the powerplant's patter once underway.

There's a burble from the exhaust at idle that sounds like it's been carefully modelled on an i20 WRC in «road mode», but for the rest of the time the engine is the model of restraint, rarely rising above a background hum and only making itself known via its effortless mid-range urge.

In order to stop the engine from bogging the A / C usually has a way of raising the idle by letting more air past the throttle body.

If the throttle pedal arm breaks, the engine will return to idle and the driver will be unable to maintain or increase engine speed, increasing the risk of a crash.