Sentences with phrase «own test loop»

The company announced that it achieved a new record speed in its test loop in Nevada, raised another $ 50 million, and made Richard Branson its new Chairman.

Acton, a physicist by training, points out that GE Hitachi has so far only built a «test loop» to see whether laser enrichment can be made economical.

The Campus will house Holtec's corporate engineering center, two large manufacturing plants, a reactor test loop and a number of ancillary facilities.

The only facility of its kind in the U. S., the NSTTF includes a 6 MW central receiver test facility with 200 + heliostats (currently being utilized for particle receiver development and testing), a 16 kWth solar furnace, a rotating test platform, a solar simulator with automated sample handling and exposure system, and a molten salt test loop.

Mr. Marcille's stewardship of Holtec's SMR - 160 program is all - encompassing including the development and commissioning of the reactor test loop at Holtec's Technology Campus in Camden, New Jersey which will be a linchpin of the Company's drive to obtain certification for the reactor by the USNRC and other regulatory jurisdictions on an expedited schedule.

Jeep laid out a test loop on the property so we could sample the concepts in their element.

As a quick ride around a little test loop at the Hawthorne facility proved to us, the 2015 Tesla Model S P85D is the kind of car that the German car companies would understand.

Each year, we take an Elise on our All - Stars test looping, and we go on to rave about how great it is and even give it an award.

As a result, on the test loop, the Tacoma had no trouble executing a full - ABS panic stop after a long mountain descent, simply because the truck failed to instill the confidence necessary to bring speeds up to the point where hard brake use might possibly cause fade.

Chrysler 300 buyers seeking maximum fuel economy are encouraged to stick with the standard V - 6, which has returned nearly 23 mpg on this same test loop.

In our city test loop, the petrol delivered a mediocre 9kpl.

The Acadia's lighter footsteps also mean that a smaller 2.5 - liter Ecotec four - cylinder is now possible as the base engine, and on my test loop in a front - wheel - drive model, the 194 - horsepower, 190 - pound - feet of torque power plant moved the 3,956 - pound SUV at a respectable clip.

Our test loop included some very twisting, hilly roads as well as city streets and interstates.

Fuel consumption on a test loop finished up at 10.6 L / 100 km — a good result for a reasonably potent turbocharged petrol engine.

The Jeep's responsive diesel four - cylinder is naturally quite frugal (8.1 L / 100 km over a test loop), and is matched to the smooth - shifting nine - speed automatic transmission.

Given this background, it comes as no surprise that my Accent test car got 32 mpg on my testing loop, which is exactly what the EPA says it ought to achieve in combined driving.

Our local launch test loop through the Byron Bay and Gold Coast hinterlands exposed the cars to everything from badly pockmarked and poorly repaired bitumen through to more well maintained A and B - roads.

The EPA says the Civic Si will get 32 mpg in combined driving, and I averaged 31.3 mpg on my test loop despite heavier traffic than usual on the city and freeway portions, and plenty of high - revving hijinks on back roads.

Where I managed about 42 mpg on a test loop, the others achieved numbers in the high 40s.

Granted the test loop roads were smoother than our pock - marked byways, but the manner in which the cars handled what lumpy stuff we could find (and autobahn expansion joints et al) augurs well for local conditions.

Our testing however shows the Mondeo consumed a lot more fuel than quoted in laboratory tests, at 12.9 L / 100 km on our test loop.

You're not going to get good fuel economy when driving this car in the manner for which it is clearly intended, as evidenced by my observed 19.3 mpg on my test loop.

It produced 26.5 mpg on our standardized test loop, which includes both mountain and highway driving.

The EPA rates the wagon at 44/40/42 mpg on its city, highway, and combined test loop.

Then it was off to Area 85, our test loop in the California desert, to see how they performed off the pavement.

Each vehicle is driven on a standardized road - test loop and visits the publication's test track for instrumented testing in controlled conditions.

Driving the 2015 Mercedes - Benz S550 Coupe along one of my usual test loops, combining city streets, the freeway, twisty mountain roads and a scenic stretch of coastal highway, I enjoyed the incredibly smooth ride quality and able cornering, the low growl of the engine, and the high fidelity sounds coming from the 24 - speaker Burmester audio system.

On a 60 km test loop, the fuel consumption rose to 12.2 L / 100 km, which is likely to be an indicative real - world figure for most owners.

MSR provided us with a base for our test in a busy industrial estate and loaded and unloaded each vehicle with a 600 kg weight, allowing us to complete our varied test loop both with and without a load.

The EPA rates my tester at 14/19/16 mpg on the city, highway, and combined test loop.

That's enough for it to go 680 miles on one 17 - gallon tank of fuel, but the Camry returned 42.4 miles per gallon in our real - world testing loop.

Our Ram test truck earned 13.2 mpg around our 115 - mile test loop and averaged 11.8 mpg over the 1,510 miles we spent with it, a total that included several hundred miles of highway driving and about 100 miles off - road.

The 1 km test loop was sufficient to understand the engine but too controlled an environment to discover much about the chassis and suspension set up.

On the slippery surface of the sprinkler - soaked test loop, the standard car would respond to mid-corner throttle inputs with power understeer until the all - wheel - drive system could exert its influence.

In our initial 250 - mile test loop, driver and front passenger were pleased to emerge with nary a cramp in their bodies, ready for another stretch of highway.

Looking back at my notes from a drive in the 2015 XSE V6, I see that the car returned 22.9 mpg on my test loop.

I was able to get a very early taste of the 10th - generation Accord's new engine behind the wheel of a camoed prototype on the high - speed testing loop at Honda's R&D facility in Tochigi, Japan.

The easiest way of testing for changes in aerodynamic drag is to measure fuel economy in repeated tests undertaken over a test loop driven at as high a consistent speed as is legally possible.

Power dropped by a whopping 58 percent on one of the LG TVs tested during the DOE's 10 - minute loop, yet it dropped by just 13 percent with the NRDC's «real - world» testing loop.

To verify the anomaly, the agency created its own test loop designed to better reflect real - world viewing, with some very telling results.

This test loop features scenic vistas across a mountainous landscape, making it a good stand - in for the workload demanded by a open world games.

«We observed inexplicable dramatic and sustained drops in energy use in TVs from certain manufacturers, beginning within the first minute of the video test loop used in the DOE test method for new TV models,» states the report.

Our web browsing test loops through a handful of moderately taxing web pages, and gives a good idea of how long a machine's battery hold out in typical casual use.

The Peacekeeper browser test loop ran for four hours and 32 minutes before calling it quits.

Our final test loops a video from local storage, and the Yoga 720 ran for nine hours and 57 minutes.

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Speaking at the annual Texas Transportation Forum hosted by the Texas Department of Transportation, Musk confirmed his earlier tweet, saying that the test track will be «something that's maybe on the order of a five - mile loop.»

This should become an ongoing test, learn, and optimize loop.

But the real draw is the full - on Nürburgring 24 layout, utilising the GP loop and pitlane for the ultimate test of driver and car endurance.

I tested this pattern with hook and loop since I love Velcro closures, but I may make some pairs with snaps too.

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