In practical terms, this means that the Fortwo Electric Drive is pretty snappy pulling away from a standstill.
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By reducing the need to idle and accelerate from a standstill, the system purports to save gas: In tests conducted in Cambridge, Mass.
When accelerating from a standstill, the system sends 30 percent of the power to the front wheels, as long as the road is dry and traction is good.
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The Panamera S E-hybrid is capable of accelerating from a standstill to 60 mph in 5.2 seconds, an improvement of a half second when compared to the Panamera S Hybrid.
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The Transformer X (TX) will be designed for depositing and extracting soldiers and supplies in tough-to-reach places without easily accessible roads, taking off from a standstill and flying up to 250 miles with a 1000-pound load.
It's almost leaping from a complete standstill to the top of a building.
When the news came through from Britain, the country did not come to a standstill.
The murder brings the mid-afternoon traffic on Artillery Place, just yards from the busy arterial John Wilson Street, to a standstill.
The most troubling statistic of all is the marked slowdown in export growth, which went from 7% in the second quarter to a near standstill in July and August.
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It fell out from under the cars and drivers who were at a standstill, and rescuers were pulling people in cars out of the Mississippi River until dark last night.
Ken Brutzman, who owns a local office furniture store, said his business was "at a standstill" last year before the orders from Hanford contractors started pouring in.
Mr Maude said the government had learnt lessons from the fuel blockades of 2000 - which caused chaos and almost brought the country to a standstill.
The standstill, according to the report, results from declining immigration from Mexico paired with a rising number of people returning south from the U.S. Those trends recently converged, and between 2005 and 2010 about as many Mexicans left the U.S. as flocked here.
The debt standstill suggests Dubai had run out of options for a pre-emptive comprehensive bail-out from the well-resourced region.
The distance from the Forbes Building to the airport is roughly 20 miles, and traffic on the way is often at a standstill.
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An estimated three million people evacuated from the metropolitan Houston region before the hurricane struck, but stalled cars without gas nearly brought the evacuation to a standstill.
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