Just as air-conditioning increases a car's fuel consumption, so does a plasma scrubber.
Soon after Lufthansa began its tarmac car service, Air France added car service for first-class passengers at its Paris hub.
Smith says that by subcontracting some of the work abroad--for example, the intake manifold in a car's air system--these contractors can add 20 points to that gross margin, and that's after paying Smith his fee of 5% to 7% of the foreign invoices.
Traditional air-bag systems mounted in the car's steering wheel and elsewhere use a hot gas to rapidly inflate the bag during a crash.
After sifting and thinking, they recognized that because of the vehicle's finely tuned mechanics, its air-tight interior, air-tight exterior, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, the car drove so quietly and elegantly that, yes, the only thing one could hear was that clock ticking.
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There are still hundreds of millions of Chinese who want the keys to their first car, their first air-conditioner, even a fridge.
It has butterfly doors, a carbon-fiber body and a roof-mounted air intake that spins as the car moves.
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Seatbelts and air bags were designed for average-sized people and car interiors might not be suitably designed for heavier people.
The western coastal road is mostly paved, and comfortable air-conditioned buses now come straight to Sablayan from Manila via car ferries that chug from the Philippines' main island, Luzon, to Abra de Ilog.
The two regularly insult one another, make each other laugh and force listeners to re-create the sounds of their car ailments on the air.
It means that when you're ripping around the Italian countryside like a fleeing bank robber, with the Huayra's turbo wastegates exploding, tearing the veil with the sound of angels having a mid-air collision, there is somehow a deft, invisible finger holding the car to the pavement.
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The site has grown from 20, 000 to 145 million searches a year, shifting nearly 3 trillion dollars-worth of air tickets, along with other travel essentials such as hotels and car hire.
Other incremental improvements range from solar panels that run the air conditioning during stand-still, so fuel is not used to cool down the car, to small electric motors tucked away in the doors and powered by batteries that are charged when a car is braking.
One reason for the scarcity of long-distance drivers is that air travel became affordable and convenient for many urban residents before car ownership began to grow.
After turning off the jet and rocket he will deploy an air brake at 800mph, parachutes at 600mph and finally put his foot on a car-type friction brake at 250mph any faster and the brakes could explode.
The car's limited range would require plenty of fill-ups at compressed-air service stations, except those don't exist.
He said that the ad market has rebounded in the past year, with car ads back on the air and political ads expected to boost revenues in the run-up to 2012.
The mezzanine and food court will be created in the air space above the current station car park, while that car park will be replaced with a multi-storey parking facility.
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Campaigners against the plans claimed the "car-centric development" would have a detrimental impact on local businesses on nearby Gloucester Road, air quality and traffic congestion.
Some of it might sound like an idea straight from the 1950s -- a car made for women -- complete with numerous pink features, as well as a windshield and air conditioning that claims to help a woman's sensitive skin.
Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.
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