Sentences with phrase «power than car»

Style could be the Arteon's ace, though: It's a gorgeous car in person, long and low with wide rear flanks implying more power than the car actually has.

However, its unruly drive train delivers more power than the car can handle.

Does it mean Car 1 has better power than Car 2 because it is at lower rpm?

Mercedes offered the first supercharged production models in 1921 with 60 percent more power than the cars» normally aspirated counterparts.

Not exact matches

«Electric cars pollute a lot less than gas - powered.»

Electric cars pollute less, but not a lot less than gas - powered compared to telecommuting, bicycles, walking, electric bicycles, living closer to work, and public transit.

Unlike in Europe, where more than half the cars are diesels, they are rarities in the U.S. — about 0.5 % — and they cost more than gasoline - powered models.

Battery - powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..

Another problem: Tesla's cars can power up at a much higher voltage than electric cars from competing car companies, and its charging stations are geared to that higher capacity.

How fast it goes: BMW has not released specs for the car's powertrain, but Gizmag reports that the water cooling system frees up 10 percent more torque and power than a standard car.

A fully autonomous car will need far more computing power than Delphi now has in a semi-autonomous driving system that's being rolled out by Audi soon, De Vos said.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

Agassi set up Better Place with the aim of using new technology to make electric cars more affordable and more convenient than gasoline - powered cars.

The new power sources shouldn't cost much more per car than the current acid - lead batteries.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

Some have estimated that Bitcoin miners will use more power than electric cars in the near term.

«We are really excited to get going on this project,» O'Connell said, which will bring prices down for batteries to power its upcoming line of cars with a price tag less than $ 40,000.

Despite her criticism of car makers, Merkel rejected a blanket ban on diesel autos, saying that a gasoline - powered vehicle actually emitted more CO2 than a diesel one.

On Friday — the same day that Tesla announced its cars have now traveled more than 3 billion miles — Musk shared the news on Twitter that Autopilot - powered Teslas have rolled some 222 million miles since the semi-autonomous technology's debut almost a year ago.

FUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrids.

There is greater computing power in a single car than in any of the latest consumer gadgets that have come to represent innovation.

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who set out to build an electric car that would be more powerful than a gas - powered automobile.

Even if a midsize EV manages to last 20 years and 150,000 miles, total CO2 emissions would be just 19 % less than a comparable gas - powered car, according to an analysis by Arthur D. Little.

Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) were trading higher by more than 3 percent early Tuesday following unconfirmed reports the electric - car and solar - power maker is close to reaching an agreement with the Chinese government.

While the Model S may not be putting out as much power as the Model X, Drag Times says it has heard reports that Model S cars using the latest firmware, newer than what its car had, have been recording power outputs of up to 67 HP more than older P90D cars.

The Model X is about 600 pounds heavier than the Model S, but the two cars are built with nigh identical power plants.

Had Granatelli been able to appear at the 1969 Indianapolis 500 with a Wankel - powered car, he might have advanced public awareness of the new power plant much faster than can be imagined.

«It's a less physical car than in Formula 1 because of the downforce and because of the power steering as well.

«You look at Sauber (who have a Ferrari power unit), even they were a better car on the day than Red Bull, so it can not all be engine related.»

If fuel duty & car taxes are reduced to counter the road pricing / congestion charges then I'm more likely to drive an inefficient, polluting vehicle because its no more expensive than driving an Prius (forget the power generated pollution).

Those designed to quickly stop and start a car's petrol engine to improve fuel efficiency need a quick burst of power, but for smoothing a domestic solar panel's output, capacity might be more important than speed.

Other 12 inch subwoofers have a higher RMS power than the XED12 (for louder results overall), but this wattage may work with your car's factory stereo system better if you're not doing a full upgrade.

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Solar - powered cars have been little more than a novelty to date, experimental vehicles resembling photovoltaic - laden surfboards designed mostly for racing across deserts.

The lithium needed for the batteries that power everything from our laptops to future electric cars may come more than ever from South America's vast salt flats

The power lost by these systems in transferring energy could be enough to make electric vehicles and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles less environmentally friendly than conventional cars, says Michael Kintner - Meyer at the Energy and Environment Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

Other possibilities include studies of whether people in positions of power, who already dominate in the public sphere, react more or less positively to servant brands; and whether products that are advertised as guardians, such as home security systems or particularly safe cars, are perceived differently than servant and partner brands.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

As for the fuel, more than 45 million metric tons (45 billion kilograms) of the lightweight gas is produced every year as part of making fertilizer, chemicals and the gasoline used to power cars today.

WHEN the supersonic car Bloodhound SSC streaks across the desert sometime in 2011 in its bid to break the land speed record, it will be powered by no fewer than three different types of engine.

The research, by three professors from Carnegie - Mellon University in Pittsburg, concludes that an electric car powered by lead - acid batteries will «release 60 times more lead per kilometre of use» than a «comparable car burning leaded gasoline».

Nuclear power has been staggeringly safe, but that doesn't stop people being anxious about it, just as airplanes and trains are an amazingly safe way to travel but people still worry far more about plane crashes than car crashes.

A recent Carnegie Mellon University study suggests that hybrid plug - in vehicles would be more expensive over a lifetime of use than comparable gas - powered cars due to the battery's hefty cost.

Owing to the different engine technologies, these have always been higher than in gasoline - powered cars.

And while most car rides are shorter than the distance EVs can travel before running out of battery power, fast charging is seen as an important means of easing consumer range anxiety about losing power before reaching a destination.

Adventurer and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard is poised to take to the skies in a sun - powered plane that's wider than a 747 but only as heavy as a family car

Research by an affiliate of the insurance group, the Highway Loss Data Institute, estimates that overall chances of being injured in a crash are 25 percent lower in hybrids because their large batteries make them heavier than similar gasoline - powered cars.

Once the system includes more neurons and the kinks are worked out, it could supply data centers, autonomous cars, and national security services with neural nets that are orders of magnitude faster than existing designs, while using orders of magnitude less power, according to the study's two primary authors, Yichen Shen, a physicist, and Nicholas Harris, an electrical engineer, both at MIT.

California can reduce carbon emissions by more than 70 million metric tons by 2030 — akin to taking 15 million gasoline - powered cars off the road in one year — by adopting a higher target for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), according to an analysis released by the UK - based research firm Cerulogy.