The 2013 Kia Rio, for instance, joins the BMW 3-series and Porsche Cayenne in offering a start-stop engine.
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With this, it aims to address the growing demand for start-stop and hybrid vehicles in several markets, especially Europe.
Automakers have been achieving incremental improvements in the efficiency of their conventional engines with new technologies like direct-injection, six-speed transmissions, turbo-chargers and start-stop systems.
Automakers have been achieving incremental improvements in the efficiency of their conventional engines with new technologies like direct-injection, six-speed transmissions, turbochargers and start-stop systems.
Johnson Controls is also increasing its production capacity of advanced battery types like Absorbent Glass Mat that power start-stop vehicles and Li-ion that power hybrid and electric vehicles.
Johnson Controls serves this market by providing a variety of automotive batteries like lead-acid for traditional gasoline-powered vehicles, AGM (Absorbent Glass Mat) for start-stop vehicles and Li-ion for hybrid and electric vehicles.
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Back in 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that using continuing resolutions to deal with the budget resulted in "inefficient, start-and-stop management" through short-term contacts.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Stills was unable to keep up the pace, though in 1971 during one of the many breaks in CSN's start-and-stop career he formed Manassas, which is well represented in the new collection.
Jakes, meanwhile, was a little salty that the start-and-stop nature of the race hurt his chances of winning an IndyCar event for the first time.
Work will continue to give Ariane 5 a major upgrade, to provide it with a more powerful upper-stage engine that will also have a stop-start capability.
Only more investment and further cost-cutting can ensure that Brazil breaks out of its stop-start cycle.
Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.
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Soon we were driving out of Misrata towards the western front - a tentative, stop-and-start process, as we checked each roadblock for news of incoming fire.
The Compass4D project aims to reduce congestion and pollution caused by stop-start driving.
In other words, the job search and interview is not a stop-start process.
Maximum fuel economy is achieved in ECO mode, with the stop-start on and engine response and output dialed way back.
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The stop-start process over the past two years has made companies wary, said Mark Hughes, capital markets partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.
Motor Trend drove the car for almost 300 miles, charging at night and going through a routine of freeway and stop-start city driving.
The stop-start showdown burst into life when Tommy Bowe latched on to Biggar's flick pass to set up Byrne for the opening try of the game.
Robbie Savage, Andrew Taylor and O'Neil all required treatment in a stop-start opening period, but although the commitment could not be questioned, the quality certainly could.
Hick has scored 3, 383 runs in 65 Test appearances at an average of 31.32, including six centuries, but it has been a stop-start career since his debut in 1991.
However, Oosthuizen's stop-start career continued as he failed to play in a major after missing the cuts for the Masters, the British Open and the PGA Championship in 2009.
It was a necessary precaution, but it didn't help the flow of the game, particularly in the stop-start first half when both teams were coming to terms with the heat.
The result means Lyon travel to the Bernabeu in three weeks with an aggregate lead but Madrid should be more than satisfied with the scoreline, particularly after such a stop-start performance.
Since then, Japan's economy has suffered stop-start growth and chronic mild deflation, with many companies struggling to rebound from the impact of the Lehman crisis and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
At the newly christened Rocky Rapids we took a stop-start, bumpy slide down a tiny rocky waterfall, while at the section of the river called Lake Balboa Ledge, we had to get out and walk among huge boulders.
Coach Fabio Capello's plans were thrown into turmoil on Friday when Manchester United defender Ferdinand, who has endured a stop-start season with other injuries, sustained the knock in the closing minutes of England's first training session.
Because so many things can cause abnormal liver function, it may be necessary to start and stop a cholesterol-lowering drug several times while conducting the tests to see whether it is the cause of the problem.
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