Sentences with phrase «power the car on»

The car has a solar roof that can help power the car on sunny days, providing up to 320 watts of additional electric power.

A good season for Toro Rosso could lead to a couple more Honda - powered cars on the grid next year.

Because with China and India poised to put tens of millions of new fossil - fuel - powered cars on the road, the stuff coming out of all those exhausts is going to make it hard to see the top of the hill.

The Ford Fiesta EcoBoost is powered by a 1.0 - liter, turbocharged three - cylinder that nets an impressive 45 mpg on the highway, higher than any other non-hybrid, gasoline - powered car on the market.

It's not enough to power the car on its own, but Audi suggests the 320 watts it generates would add up to 620 miles annually.

After years of tests and trials, Hyundai is ready to put a hydrogen - powered car on sale to the general public in the United States.

The electric motor of the BMW Concept Active Tourer is designed as a fully - fledged power unit and acts on the rear axle, if necessary powering the car on its own.

The motor improves gas mileage and reduces harmful emissions, but it can't power the car on its own for any significant distance.

Regenerative braking captures the kinetic energy generated during braking and channels it back to the battery pack, though it's not enough to power the car on its own.

Even the FIA World Endurance Championship races have seen a diesel powered car on the podium at every single race.

A PZEV is classified as the cleanest - running gasoline - powered car on the market and was developed to meet the air quality standards of California, the most stringent in North America.

Under Brown, California has sought to scale back dirty power plants, reduce the number of gas - powered cars on the roads, and cut industrial greenhouse gas emissions through a cap - and - trade program that requires businesses to pay to pollute.

In these states, an efficient gas - powered car is still the best option for the environment, with more than a dozen gas - powered cars on the market being more climate friendly than the best electric car.

Initiatives aimed at putting hydrogen fuel cell - powered cars on the road by 2020 «visualized by President George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address as the centerpiece of his plans to wean the country from fossil fuels «are taking longer than promised.

But in the short term we are not going to have fully electric powered cars on market on any significant scale and we still have to support the 200million cars on our road today.

Oh, and for those who don't think Dale's work erecting stunning urban wind turbines (or his purchase of green electricity) are enough to qualify him to use the term wind - powered car, let's at least remember that he also sponsored the world's fastest truly wind - powered car on its record breaking run.

That might still make sense if many of those are clean and if it means millions less fossil - fuel powered cars on the road (someone would have to do the math), but it definitely would be sub-optimal.

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The train arrived, and I tapped the power button on the top of the Switch, putting it into Sleep Mode again as I found a seat in the car.

But, that could change, especially in the case of Google, which has been focusing on its Android Auto software to power the car entertainment systems of auto companies, like Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

A Time Magazine reporter who test drove the «Nano» earlier this month reported that while the car is easy to operate and comes with ample legroom, turning on the air conditioner noticeably sapped power from the tiny two - cylinder engine.

The new additions include three plug - in hybrid vehicles, which come on top of eight battery - powered cars and two fuel - cell vehicles.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

The car can run for up to 31 miles on electric power alone, which is powered by a 13 kWh lithium - ion battery.

These batteries then in turn take up more space, weigh the car down and demand even more power, which means the battery needs to be bigger, and so on.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

What we really need to do is focus on the big purchases — like cars and power plants — and provide the information and financing to help people make better choices.

On concerns about power use, Bakken said his personal electricity bill had risen 5 percent from charging his car at home and fears of surge demand were overblown.

Instead of being awed by its car - summoning abilities, Liss - Riordan's brain, like always, was focused on the people powering the business.

The goal is to get batteries to power a car of average cost on a 500 - mile trip.

The company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.

Besides conceptualizing groundbreaking future car concepts for BMW's portfolio of BMW, Mini, Rolls - Royce and electric - powered i - series cars, BMW Designworks» 135 employees across three design studios in California, Munich and Shanghai also consult on product design and strategy for external clients such as Dell, Cartier and Hewlett - Packard.

Artificial intelligence has quickly become part of our daily routine — it powers everything from simple features like automatic image tagging on Facebook and purchase prediction on Amazon to more complex systems like smart cars and connected homes.

The announcement follows Volvo's announcement on Wednesday that it planned to cease making gas - powered cars and trucks and would instead only make electronic and hybrid vehicles starting in 2019.

Chipmaker Nvidia on Sunday unveiled a new processor aimed at powering high - end graphics on car dashboards as well as sophisticated auto - pilot systems.

«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 agOn 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 agon Twitter that Autopilot - powered Teslas have rolled some 222 million miles since the semi-autonomous technology's debut almost a year ago.

Musk, whose interests span electric cars, solar power and space rockets, isn't interested in commercially developing the idea, so a number of companies, including HTT, have pounced on it.

Ford had initially planned to reveal its own hydrogen car in 2017, but CTO Raj Nair told Business Insider that the company has pushed back the timeline for its reveal to focus on battery - powered vehicles.

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(Reuters)- Chipmaker Nvidia on Sunday unveiled a new processor aimed at powering high - end graphics on car dashboards as well as sophisticated auto - pilot systems.

Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.

The government has setup the tax credit on hybrid cars at $ 3,400 for hybrids and clean diesel powered vehicles and $ 4,000 forany...

In a federal court filing, Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle unit, said it was scaling back some of its claims over Uber violating its patents on LiDAR, a remote - sensing system powering Waymo's driverless car technology.

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

A car can be retrofitted to run on CNG (compressed natural gas), but it doesn't have the range of a conventional petrol powered car.

Design Engineer at Intel where she worked on car infotainment products, low power microprocessor design and led efforts for Maker Movement inside Intel.

Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse - gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency's rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first - ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) initially made itself known as a tech startup that was focused solely on making electric - powered cars.

Eventually, what we'll see — at least based on today's development — is a network wherein Waymo, nuTonomy, GM's Cruise or Lyft - powered cars will drive alongside each other on the Lyft platform.