This was a time before mobile phones - the only contact I had with the outside world while I was driving was the standard car radio in the dashboard.
BBC: Enniskillen bombing: a reporter's memories of 1987 attack
Thus the electric car is harvesting in terms of well-to-wheel miles only about 27% of the original fossil fuel energy, so not that much better than the standard car running on petrol or diesel.
FORBES: The Heretic: Electric Cars Should Be Called Coal Cars
Since the intangible benefits of buying a hybrid are difficult to quantify, calculating the payback usually focuses on the specific hybrid you buy, sales price differential to a standard car, projected gas costs, maintenance costs and tax rebates.
With a 54.5-mpg standard looming, car companies have stood that approach on its head.
The structure itself breaks all the rules of the standard, sterile car dealership, oozing luxury with its grand proportions and LEED certification.
But don't expect the mirror to come standard on new car models.
CNN: Disco ball-inspired mirror gets rid of driver's blind spot
Some of the streamlining will involve removing content for the entry-level model, the magazine reported, including stripping features out of the current navigation system and using less expensive headlamps than the LED lights that now are standard on the car.
FORBES: How Low Can Leaf Go? Nissan May See With Budget Version
This is standard operating procedure for car-makers, but BMW is taking its wide-reaching platform up a notch.
FORBES: BMW's Project i And The Future Of Fun, Sustainable Mobility
They say night vision will one day be standard in the family car.
Sooner or later, Congress will adopt an Open Fuel Standard requiring every new car sold in America to be an FFV.
Oh, and did you know that you can run a standard internal combustion engined car, with a very little tweaking, on that very hydrogen?
FORBES: Apple Wrongfoots Greenpeace over Renewable Power for the iCloud
However, if you want to use the standard mileage rate for a car you lease, you must use it for the entire lease period.
FORBES: Midyear Mileage Rate Changes Offer Relief, Likely to Cause Confusion
Regardless of whether you choose the standard mileage rate or actual car expenses, parking fees, tolls, interest and taxes are separately deductible for business, medical, moving and charitable purposes.
FORBES: Midyear Mileage Rate Changes Offer Relief, Likely to Cause Confusion
Simple: By adopting an Open Fuel Standard that requires every new car sold in America to have not only have seat-belts and airbags but Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) capability.
Greg Johanson, president of Solar Electric Vehicles in Westlake Village, California, said his company makes a roof-mounted panel for a standard Prius that enables the car to travel up to 15 additional miles a day.
The entire BRABUS multimedia system is controlled from the passenger seat or the rear compartment by two iPads that also control the car's standard COMAND system with all functions such as radio, navigation system and telephone.
Whereas traditional car rental companies choose standard cars in the dullest colors of the rainbow, the first Zipcar was a tricked-out lime-green Volkswagen Beetle.
FORBES: From McRibs To Maseratis: The Power Of Limited Access
The fully electric car charges via a standard 100-volt AC outlet, and it's decked out with gull-wing doors and motion detection courtesy of Microsoft's Kinect.
ENGADGET: Toyota's Smart Insect concept EV packs Kinect motion sensor, voice recognition (video)
But if you've got a fuel-efficiency standard in place that says your car needs to get 20 miles a gallon or 30 miles a gallon, suddenly all these engineers are thinking, well, how do we do that?
North Yorkshire Police said it was standard procedure as police in a patrol car had seen the Range Rover before the collision.
BBC: Douglas Robertson death crash in Stokesley: Fourth arrest
The car can be charged via a standard 120-volt outlet or an optional 240-volt quick-charging station.
They have become as ubiquitous as car alarms, which seemingly are standard equipment on all but the cheapest autos.
FORBES: When Your Home Security Company Becomes the Greatest Security Risk
Severinsky's bright idea was to run the electric motor on a high voltage--say, 40 times the 14 volts that is standard for the electrical system in a gasoline car with a 12-volt battery.
Fiat, once known for the acronym Fix-It-Again-Tony, more recently known for Jennifer Lopez ads, has announced that its 500L model will be the first car in the world to come standard with a Lavazza espresso machine, making its debut in Italy before buzzing across Europe.
By the late 1970s the roles had been reversed: Japan was producing the quality stuff while America's car industry was in crisis and its standard-bearers of quality were Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
He got his start working at auto parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate then left in 1978 to found his own company, Bumper Works, which makes a one-piece car bumper design that is the industry standard.
But his proposal to introduce a standard engine has met with disapproval from the road-car manufacturers.
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone does not believe major car manufacturers would quit the sport over the standard engine issue.
He founded Bumper Works in 1978 after designing a one-piece car bumper that has since become the industry standard.
FORBES: The Richest Car Guy In The World Is Not Elon Musk - It's Not Even A Guy
应用推荐