The first reason was that the lead-acid battery packs used in the EV-1 weighed 1600 lb. and were both too heavy and not powerful enough for widespread use.

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Kogeto says the 12-lb. camera is being used in hundreds of schools today.

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The mind-boggling premiums were described by Larry Harbour, the 33-year-old owner of LB Custom Chrome and Detail in Broken Bow, Neb.

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The gating item is the 25, 000 lb. blow-out preventer which is set to arrive in November.

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In comparison, Acer believes the 1.7-lb.

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In the car torque is limited electronically to 1, 100 Nm (811 lb-ft).

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The 2.0-liter engine in the Beetle is the same unit you can find in the Golf and Jetta, a torquey turbo that produces 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque.

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Although it only has 15 hp more than the gasoline 6.2-liter V8 also offered in the F-350, it has almost double the torque, at an impressive 800 lb.

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The car itself is based primarily on the MINI Cooper S, with similar front and rear styling and the l.6-liter four-cylinder turbo engine that debuted in the 2011 MINI S. (The engine gets 181 hp and up to 192 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-to-60 mph sprint of 6.6 seconds.) Fuel economy ratings are 35 mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city under the manual transmission variant.

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