Sentences with phrase «wheel motors where»

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The combustion engine (petrol or diesel) drives the front wheels and the motor powers the rears, so in situations where grip is limited, the Numero 9 can use its limited four - wheel drive capability for added stability.

You're meant to drive in Comfort mode once you leave your neighborhood, where the electric motor does its business through the front wheels and then the 1.5 - liter three - cylinder engine begins to help out at just under 40 mph through the rear wheels.

Unlike most electrical drive units, where one motor is dedicated solely as a generator and a second exclusively putting torque to the wheels, the eFlite system uses both to power the wheels.

For example, Tesla's Model S can come with all - wheel drive, where two electric motors power each axle, versus the rear - wheel drive version with one electric motor at the back.

Some 300 kg of battery cells are packed into this V60's boot, where the spare wheel might otherwise be, and housed in the lower sub-frame is the electric motor that spins the rear wheels.

However, where the Z.E. 16 only gets one electric motor at the back, the special Zoe comes with two (front and rear) to give it all - wheel drive.

The test took place on the relatively soft surface of the Hakskeen Pan desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa, where the dynamic ability of the new all - wheel drive F - TYPE R Coupé — making its global motor show debut today in Los Angeles — enabled the successful completion of a vital communications test for the Bloodhound SSC team.

Under most operating conditions, the Accord works in the Hybrid mode where the engine acts as a generator and supplies electric power to the battery with power being channelled to the wheels via the electric propulsion motor.

The 2013 VIZIV featured what Subaru called an «independent - rear - motor - driven symmetrical AWD» system, where a 2.0 - litre diesel horizontally - opposed («Boxer») engine drove the front wheels through the continuously variable transmission (CVT, which Subaru branded «Lineartronic») and provided power generation, and each rear wheel was powered by an independent electric motor.

On the best - selling Lexus RX SUV, it's an electric cable that snakes back to the rear axle, where an electric motor powers the rear wheels, but only when called for.

Where the Acura RLX on our 10 Best list uses electric motors for torque vectoring and others a heavy, complex differential and clutch packs to overpower the outside driven wheel, Ford employs a simpler expedient: It brakes and underpowers the inside wheel lightly relative to the outside to help the car through a turn on wet or slippery roads.

At this year's Frankfurt motor show, where there was some serious metal including a rear - wheel drive Audi R8 and the new Renault Megane RS, the funky Honda Urban EV Concept was one of the cars that caught our eyes the most.

One motor is mated to the transmission, where it powers the front wheels in electric - only mode or throws in extra oomph to the gas engine.

This will get intense scrutiny from other car companies because it's a completely different type of hybrid that can run in pure EV mode for 10 to 15 miles, or can run in hybrid mode where it becomes a series hybrid just like the Chevy Volt, and can run in engine mode, where the engine is mechanically connected to the wheels yet still gets electric assist from one of two electric motors.

Two motors mounted where the differential would be driving each rear wheel makes more sense.

The electric motor is powered by lithium - ion batteries, which are housed where a transmission tunnel would reside in a rear - wheel - drive car.

[1] The next power steering system was put on a Columbia 5 - ton truck in 1903 where a separate electric motor was used to assist the driver in turning the front wheels.

The motor is connected to the front wheels, where it sends its 153 horsepower to the ground.

In this type of operation the system works as a «parallel hybrid» where both the gasoline engine and, when required — for instance upon quick acceleration — the electric propulsion motor, both provide power to the wheels.

With electric motors at the rear wheels, Acura implements active torque vectoring to aid handling, where the outside wheel in a turn delivers more torque, leading to very predictable behavior.

On the other hand, if you live in an area where all - wheel drive stability is important and the added grunt of the turbocharged motor is appealing to you, the 2017 Subaru Forester 2.0 XT Touring is a solid option that offers a lot of capability in comparison to most of its competitive set.

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In the i8 spyder, the combustion unit is supported by a 131 - hp electric motor mounted up front within the axle assembly, where it provides drive to the front wheels via a fixed - ratio gearbox.

It is finished in its original two - tone Black and Tan that looks especially nice even three decades after it was applied by Tiffany Motor Coach but obviously there's much more to the coupe than just paint, cool cars like this that are built in the same tradition of the Excalibur and Zimmer add century - old class and distinction to more modern components, that's where you get the custom swoopy fenders, decorative exterior exhaust ports, 2 exterior spare tires, full - length running boards, and bright wire wheels and of course the classic - style trunk with leather straps but beyond the grandest of grand touring appearance are the fundamentals you want for example, the doors are unaltered from the original Mercury Cougar body, the same goes for much of the main glass and underlying components, so maintaining this one - of - a-kind appearance is much easier than it might first seem.

Regardless of the driving mode selected, the power generated by the electric motor, combustion engine or the two units together is channelled quickly and precisely to the wheels where it can be converted most effectively into propulsion.

The Acura RLX Sport Hybrid's Twin Motor Unit (TMU) is located between the rear wheels, where a differential on a conventional all - wheel - drive vehicle is typically mounted.

It may only have two wheels, but a motorcycle is considered a motor vehicle which means you need motorcycle insurance to ride on the roads, no matter where you live in Canada.

Maybe because of it's super low center of mass (the motors and batteries are mounted almost entirely in - plane with the wheels), but the Tango doesn't seem to lift up too much, where other cars were flying.

(The latter is where the electric motor takes kinetic energy away from the wheels and puts it back into the battery.)