During your report I seem to remember Justin saying something about needing to have a two litre engine car because he has two children.
As I calculated in my earlier Forbes article, one needs to multiply the EPA MPGe by .365 to get a number that truly compares fossil fuel use of an electric car with a traditional gasoline engine car on an apples to apples basis.
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"When you look to the German car manufacturers now, they are fighting against each other with the biggest statement, with more horse power, and these days a diesel engine car is as powerful as a petrol car, " Saab Europe's Claude Makowski told BBC News Online.
Toyota, Nissan and General Motors are all striving to develop ceramic car engine parts.
The efficiency of a car engine can be defined in terms of a miles-per-gallon equivalent.
An inspector reached in to Michael Waltrip's car engine, a moment described by NASCAR official Robin Pemberton.
Our bodies and our minds need proper care just like our car engine requires proper maintenance and the right fuel.
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To remove ambitious immigrants from the incredibly enterprising American equation is the equivalent of subtracting the engine from the car.
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Chrysler says this is the highest torque rating of any naturally aspirated (non-turbocharged or supercharged) sports car engine in the world.
This slowing effect is used by Lotus to simulate engine braking, in which resistance inside an internal-combustion engine decelerates the car.
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He bends over, returning his attention to the engine of the car.
"The other lung can gain capacity but there will be limits, " he said, comparing it to a car engine that now runs slightly slower.
Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running a car engine past the red line or leaving a toaster stuck in the 'on' position.
This allows the iPod to go to sleep and shut down when you shut your car engine, without you having to think about turning anything off.
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"If you keep putting a broken engine into your car, you're going to keep on having the same problem, no matter how good the mechanic is, " he says.
It can be used to run an internal combustion engine in a car or power one using a fuel cell, with heat and water as the only emissions.
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Should the family of an experienced motor mechanic who asphyxiated himself by running a car engine in his garage be entitled to cash from the manufacturer of a muffler-repair kit?
When the battery is depleted (or when driven at very high speeds), the premium-gas internal combustion engine powers the car, but its fuel mileage suffers from having to shove around 400lbs of batteries.
With 90% of Ceradyne's revenues coming from such big defense contractors as Hughes, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas--and with the ceramic car engine still several years off--Moskowitz is now searching hard for nonmilitary ceramics applications.
One success so far: Barra pushed to speed up the consolidation of GM's three small-car engine lines, arguing that it shouldn't wait four years to introduce a single, more fuel-efficient engine that could be used worldwide.
Although it seems fairly straightforward and simple there is actually a tremendous amount of pedaling and steering involved, along with counting gears, remembering what parts on the course are rough or soft and need to be avoided, looking at RPM, paying attention to the sounds of the engine and the car and being on alert for the unexpected to happen.
Start the engine of the running car, and run it for 1-2 minutes while revving the engine to higher rpm.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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Welch likens early screening to the check engine light on a car, occasionally picking up abnormalities that don't affect the vehicle's performance.
The Jaguar, with two electric motors and a supercharged 1.6-liter gas engine (the show car version actually uses two microturbines) can manage more than 30 miles on the batteries.
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Auto engineers and climate scientists say that to understand that, you have to realize that producing carbon dioxide is unavoidable if you want to use a modern engine to power your car.
He then drives the car onto a dynamometer, a big contraption that measures the engine's torque and horsepower while the car runs standing still.
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