Electric vehicles have nearly 80% more problems and are generally less reliable than cars propelled by conventional internal combustion engines, according to a newreportfrom Consumer Reports. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) have an even worse scorecard, with an average of almost 150% more ...
Dustin Hawley|Jul 28, 2023 Car enthusiasts often want to customize their vehicles, and one popular modification is lowering a car. Lowering a car involves adjusting the suspension system to lower the vehicle's ride height. This modification can give the car a sleek and aggressive look while imp...
Rear seat space tops most of the competitors. The split rear seat folds in all but Camry SE and Hybrid, although the pass-through opening between to the trunk is rather small. The Camry XLE has a manually reclining rear seat with a center pass-through. The trunk is huge. 2007-2011 Toyo...
Fuel Economy:The 2015 Mazda 6 automatic with i-ELOOP system is rated at28/39 mpgcity/hwy. The i-ELOOP system, available in the GT Technology Package, uses a capacitor installed inside the front fender to recover the energy when slowing down to re-use later. It's like a very mild hybr...
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) have an even worse scorecard, with an average of almost 150% more problems, the consumer group found. By contrast, ordinary hybrid cars are a "bright spot," with about a quarter fewer problems than gas-powered cars, the analysis found. ...
with MacPherson struts on all four wheels. Rear brakes are discs only. The Camry Hybrid is powered by a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine combined with a 105-kW electric motor. A powerful hybrid battery pack installed under the trunk floor stores the electric power. The 2012 Camry Hybrid LE gets...
Modeling the whole planar coil as a series of i-th parasitic capacitances delimited by the polar coordinates a and b defined in Equation (4) with the potential and the electrical flux between two turns, it is thus possible to define the global X and Y constitutive Equations (5) and (6)...