These two models will be the first series-produced vehicles specially built with electric engine and electric hybrid drive train.
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The company might continue to refine its creative Hybrid Drive concept, but only select users will care about that.
Hayek envisioned the city-friendly Swatchmobile to be equipped with a hybrid drive train.
Seagate was also showing a 1 TB 2.5-inch hybrid drive that was 9.5mm thick and with a 32 GB flash cache.
It adopts the Atkinson cycle and D-4S direct injection technology to optimise both the power and fuel-efficiency benefits of Lexus Hybrid Drive.
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Other functions not specific to the hybrid drive will also be available as options for other Panamera models via the Porsche Car Connect mobile app.
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Seagate Technology recently announced a higher flash capacity hybrid drive with twice the flash storage capacity inside the HDD compared to their prior generation product.
This Lexus Hybrid Drive powertrain features an all-new, ultra-smooth running, 2.5 litre 4-cylinder petrol engine mated to a compact, high-output, water-cooled permanent magnet electric motor.
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Seagate had a technology demonstration at their hotel suite in the CES where they were showing a 7mm thick 2.5-inch hybrid drive with 500 GB HDD and 32 GB flash memory capacity.
In addition to the petrol engine and electric motor, the LF-CC hybrid drive system further comprises a generator, a high-performance battery, a power split device which, via planetary reduction gears, combines and re-allocates power from the engine, electric motor and generator according to operational requirements, and a compact power control unit to govern the high speed interaction of the system components.
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One of the shrewdest alt-fuel marketing moves Toyota made early on was to create a sub-brand for its hybrid engine technology, with the Hybrid Synergy Drive badge that appears on every Toyota hybrid vehicle.
Everything comes standard with a hybrid hard drive, but the 430 also has an SSD option.
Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive technology remains the standard by which other hybrids are judged.
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Even at the high end, you'll find the 14z is similar to the U310: it, too, maxes out at 1, 366 x 768 resolution and a 500GB hybrid hard drive.
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"Today, our year-long vision of creating a 5mm thin hybrid hard drive in 2.5'' form factor with increased storage capacity and reduced power consumption at a lower cost for manufacturers has become a reality, " said Dr. Pantelis Alexopoulos, Executive Director of DSI.
Brin and Page both drive hybrid Toyota Priuses and have made personal investments in Tesla, an electric car maker.
They are introducing the fashionable idea of hybrid-electric drive into helicopters.
Both companies are already successful selling front-wheel-drive hybrid vehicles.
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At the Flash Memory Summit Toshiba demonstrated their hybrid hard disk drive, joining Seagate as a provider of these storage devices that can provide performance similar to that of SSD with the storage costs closer to that of hard disk drives.
Other projects being funded this year include an effort to develop a smaller, less costly and more durable fuel cell power system that will enable commercialization of U.S. fuel cell buses, and an effort to develop and demonstrate a lightweight highly efficient bus that incorporates an improved hybrid-electric drive and enhanced bus design.
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You recycle, drive a hybrid, and run your major appliances during off-peak hours.
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As with a hybrid, you have to drive a lot to get your money back.
As with gasoline-fueled and hybrid cars, how you drive affects real-world mileage.
From a handling perspective, the Camry Hybrid was a pleasure to drive.
That hybrid car that you smugly drive contains about 100 pounds of the stuff, largely in the electrical cables and the electric motor.
Buy a good hybrid car or light truck and drive it right, and you'll halve your oil use per mile.
For those computer users with significant content needs dual storage approaches like the Fusion Drive as well as hybrid HDDs could offer an ideal marriage of capacity and speed.
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The first GM-designed and built electric motors are scheduled to debut in 2013 in its next-generation, rear-wheel-drive, two-mode hybrid technology.
And unlike dual-drive designs, WD's hybrid technology provides single-unit design homogeneity that OEM system manufacturers have long sought from the storage industry.
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Available in front- and all-wheel-drive versions, the stylish midsize hybrid luxury crossover SUV is quicker and gets better mileage than its gasoline powered equivalent.
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