Porsche and others claim to be saving up to 5% with so-called Start/Stop systems that temporarily shut off an engine rather than idling, automatically firing it back up when the driver's foot lifts off the brake.Still other makers are using battery power to enhance performance, including both Ferrari, with its new LaFerrari supercar, and McLaren with its own "ultracar," the P1.
And why was the ministry buying rails from Japan when Russia's steel mills were idle and offering fire-sale prices?
These are the firing time, idle time, execution time, and transmission time.
In practice, this means they need keep a lot of idle plants that can be fired up rapidly when demand spikes.
The French rear ships were no less idle, with Entreprenant and Pelletier firing at any British ships in range but refusing to close or participate in the melees on either side.
What will make its desultory heart race, its toes tap, its synapses fire in the steamy idle hours that stretch ahead?
After weeks in small towns, it was strange to see the drought reduced to reminders to reuse a towel or having to ask for water in a restaurant, instead of fallow fields, idled ski resorts and pastures on fire.
Even at idle, the 4-cylinder engine emits a fire-and-brimstone roar.
On a recent outing, after Mr. Hoback got Madame to fire up, the big 6 idled languidly, with a mellow thrum issuing from the dual exhausts.
"I'm just watching the morons drive through this," said Fire Chief Doug Penland of Kill Devil Hills, idling in his four-by-four with another firefighter from a safe distance.
