enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Car elevator - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_elevator

   A car elevator or vehicle elevator is an elevator designed for the vertical transportation of vehicles inside buildings, so increasing the number of vehicles that can be parked in parking lots and parking garages. Where real estate is costly, these car parking systems can reduce overall costs by using less land to park the same number of cars. [1]

3. Compressed-air car - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed-air_car

   It is propelled by the release and expansion of the air within a motor adapted to compressed air. The car might be powered solely by air, or combined (as in a hybrid electric vehicle) with other fuels such as gasoline, diesel, or an electric plant with regenerative braking. Compressed-air cars use a thermodynamic process. Air cools when ...

4. Hoist (device) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_(device)

   Hoist atop an elevator. A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium.

5. Electric cars in winter: How cold weather affects EV range ...

   www.aol.com/electric-cars-winter-cold-weather...

   Electric cars perform less well in cold weather. Lower ambient temperatures affect an EV’s range, but also how quickly the battery charges and how effective its regenerative braking system works ...

6. Vehicle recovery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_recovery

   These include power units to supply air for power tools or pumping off vehicle braking systems, etc. Generators supply 110 or 220 volt mains power for floodlighting, tools, etc. There are different shaped forks for attaching to lift points, or for modifying standard lifting devices to allow them to transport motorbikes.

7. Car lift - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_lift

   Car lift may refer to: Car elevator, a device which transports cars between different floors of a building. Car lift, car hydraulic lift, 2 post lift or 2 column lift, a device which mechanically lifts a car up, so that the mechanic can work underneath. Car ramp, a device which raises a car from the ground for access to its undercarriage.