Sentences with phrase «powered cars driving»

For example, electric cars will need to replace the petrol - powered cars driving on our roads.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the skeptical environmentalist himself, Bj ¯ rn Lomborg, recently revealed a devastating analysis of the EV's real carbon footprint: «If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles in its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar - size gasoline - powered car driven the same number of miles.»

Image credit: Ecotricity Dale Vince's Wind - Powered Car Driven for First Time In my last post about Dale Vince's prototype electric sports car, the term «wind - powered» clearly raised some hackles who felt this was a deceptive marketing ploy.

Not exact matches

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.

NVIDIA»S NEW COMPUTER FOR LEVEL 5 AUTONOMOUS CARS: Nvidia, one of the leading players in the self - driving space, announced a new computing system, dubbed Pegasus, which the company says could power a a Level 5 autonomous car, The Verge reports.

It features both Volvo's new Scalable Product Architecture platform that will underpin all of the company's next generation of cars as well as the Drive - E engines that will power its complete lineup.

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.

Tesla, which besides developing self - driving cars is also pushing into solar power after acquiring SolarCity last year, tends to keep him the most busy, Musk added.

That means it cost 29 times as much energy to produce Bitcoins last year as it did to power all the Tesla cars driving today.

And the chips that Nvidia designed for video games now power technologies like self - driving cars.

«This would start with the car that you drive and the energy that you use to charge it, and would extend to how everything else in your home or business is powered.»

And that's tough to do when you're an online ad company building solar - powered balloons, self - driving cars, and robots.

Just one proper lawsuit has been filed so far, stemming from a collision involving a self - driving car powered by GM - owned Cruise Automation and a motorcyclist in San Francisco.

Nvidia has for years supplied GPU chips to power the 17 - inch digital dashboard in the Tesla cars, even before it struck a deal to replace Mobileye for the «autonomous driving» functions of future Teslas.

Musk is expected to talk a little bit more about how the company plans to finance several of the projects he outlined in his master plan, which includes solar - powered roofs, self - driving trucks and minibuses and a shared network of self - driving cars.

He also heads X's Project Loon, the balloon - based beaming internet project; Google's self - driving car project; and Makani, X's kite - based wind power initiative.

We simply won't be able to avoid dangerous climate change, as all our countries have pledged to do, unless we switch over time to using clean power for activities like driving our cars and heating our homes.

Move away from using fossil fuels to drive our cars and heat our homes; use clean power instead.

Today I was driving my GASOLINE powered car around a city with a lot of other GASOLINE powered cars, I saw some trucks and buses driving around with DIESEL engines, and got stopped at a level crossing while a train, pulled by 2 DIESEL locomotives went by.

Driving an equivalent gas - powered car like the Mercedes S - Class S 500 results in emissions of approximately 200 g CO2 / km,» says Tesla.

Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has so many grand plans — developing self - driving cars and the hyperloop, revolutionizing solar power and how the world gets electricity, colonizing Mars, to name a few — that he's labeled crazy and genius in a single...

In Miami, however, the cars — powered by self - driving startup Argo.AI, in which Ford bought a majority stake — are still mostly mapping out the city's streets for now.

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.

Tesla's battery powered cars and self - driving technology were a threat to European luxury carmakers like BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen's Audi unit, which remain heavily invested in internal combustion engines.

The combined company, which will be called T - Mobile, will invest $ 40 billion over the next three years to upgrade its networks to accommodate the next generation 5G wireless technology, which is expected to have the speeds necessary to power drones and self - driving cars, Legere said in a statement.

These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles based on a completely new architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.

Baidu has also partnered with major carmakers like BYD to mass produce self - driving cars powered by Baidu software in as early as two years.

Cars drive on a highway next to downed power line poles by Hurricane Maria in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico on October 1, 2017.

As Tesla continues to evolve its Autopilot suite of features and aims to complete its first coast - to - coast fully autonomous drive this year, the Silicon Valley electric carmaker is said to be working on its own AI - based chips that will power the company's future fleet of driverless cars.

The three types of divine power can be expressed nicely by an analogy with driving a car.

Bonhoeffer came to accept the full implications of the resistance movement, justifying his position as follows: «It is not only my task to look after the victims of madmen who drive a motor - car in a crowded street, but to do all in my power to stop their driving at all.

A desire for mastery and power also motivates people to drive powerful cars, to fly in powerful planes (especially corporate jets, which they «control» more directly), to carry impressive brief cases (a symbol of social power), and to engage in «power» breakfasts.

To stay with the automobile illustration, cars no longer were merchandized as transportation machines but were sold primarily as extensions of the self — symbols of power, of sexual drive, of freedom, and status.

Wine barrel race cars are people - powered where one person drives and the other pushes or pulls the vehicle.

Driven by a plethora of Italian F1 stars such as Michele Alboreto, Alessandro Nannini, Ricardo Patrese and Teo Fabi, the Ferrari - powered cars took pole positions here, there and everywhere in the WSC, but were just too fragile to get to the end of the race.

Montoya's been driving the Chevrolet - powered, Penske - run car, with Servia at the wheel of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports» Honda - engined version.

Driving home from an event in Orange County, Tere used a portable (battery powered) breast pump in the car.

Maybe you recall getting a Barbie dream house or one of those Power Wheels cars that let you drive around that backyard.

The average speed of a power - driven riding toddler car toy is about 2 - mph.

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).

David also says, or rather whispers, that he is the real heir to Blair, not the other Dave the Tory, and given the chance he will lead them quickly back to the corridors and chauffeur driven cars of power.

If you've ever wanted to charge multiple devices while you were driving your car or really wished you had AC power while camping, listen up.

Tech - savvy drivers in the US with, say, a recent - model Toyota, can buy hardware from Comma.ai's website — a dashboard camera, an interface to the car's electronic systems — and combine it with the firm's open - source software, openpilot, to create a car that can automatically control acceleration, braking and power - steering systems in specific circumstances, such as driving on a highway.

The Dromida RTR RC Car is designed to perform; the stable setup makes for smooth driving while the brushless motor makes for some amazing power.

Japanese car - maker Honda has unveiled a hydrogen - powered concept vehicle that it says represents the future of emissions - free driving.

In his scheme, the lead car serves as the locomotive, doing most of the work so simple electric motors that deliver just enough power for tooling around town and driving to the commuter track can power the rest of the cars.

Sun - derived fuels can also be used to power fuel cells that drive cars or provide heat to warm homes.

A plug - in hybrid electric uses a traction - drive power electronics system to propel the car forward by providing force to the car's wheels and has a charger for recharging the high - voltage battery when it is plugged into the power grid.

For example, photonic crystals could funnel excess heat from a power plant's generator and release it over a much smaller band of frequencies to drive engines — such as those in electric - powered cars that can absorb energy only within a small range — much more efficiently.

Unfortunately, typical capacitors have been able to store only tiny amounts of charge, making them useless for driving the power - hungry engines these cars use.