Sentences with phrase «steep mountain grades»

Do you know how to properly drive through very steep mountain grades?

Instead, you should use the pulse braking method — the same method used by truckers carrying 80,000 lbs down steep mountain grades.

Motivated by a 3.5 - liter V6 good for 280 horsepower and 262 pound - feet of torque, the engine had more than ample oomph for highway merging, and enough power to blast up steep mountain grades.

Out on the trail, the engine and transmission combo pulled with confidence up steep mountain grades, and ground clearance (at 9 inches) was never an issue.

Not exact matches

Once a company has scaled the steepest grades of the mountain and begun to need to accelerate on the flatter portion, that is when ironically the need for a «gear change» becomes apparent (often driven by investors).

It's not just the lure of gold but the high - grade stuff that keeps Mountain Boy Minerals TSXV: MTB and its friends drilling the steep slopes of northwestern British Columbia's Golden Triangle.

The steep grades through the Rocky Mountains can also cause a locomotive to lose traction, especially if the locomotive is pulling a heavy load...

(Other modes include Touring, which is the default setting; Mountain, which reserves energy for steep grades; and Hold, which allows drivers to use only the gasoline engine so that they can save the charge for pure electric driving for later, such as when they are in the city.)

The mountain mode, which is expected to be required only under unusual power demand conditions, increases minimum battery state of charge (SOC) to around 45 %, thus maintaining performance on steep and long grades.

Despite this, the Lexus RX350's 3.5 - liter V6 never broke a sweat even when climbing steep grades in the mountains.