Panama Canal : Challenge of Connecting 2 Seas of Different Levels.

North America's biggest tire maker was chosen to provide its Goodyear Integrity tires for the 2005 Prius.

The Prius, which qualifies as a "hybrid" automobile, powered by both an electric motor and a petrol engine, has an EPA-estimated mixed town / road average rating of fifty five miles per gallon. No plug-in is needed as coasting and decelerating recharge the motor's batteries.

The Prius, now has a decent set of tires -- P185 / 65R15 Goodyear Integrity. 76 g of sideways stick in the corners and zero.

To draw attention to the skyrocketing performance capacities of today's hybrid cars a specifically designed Prius set a hybrid auto land speed record at the mythical Bonneville Salt Residences in Utah, topping 130 miles an hour. Several would be confounded to grasp the Panama Canal runs north to south to link the Atlantic and Pacific Seas , not east to west. By shortening the route and reducing the price of transport between the 2 seas, the Panama Canal allows for lower-cost imported products and commodities in a lot of part of the planet. ( It saves virtually 8,000 miles on a trip from Big Apple to San Francisco. ) By eliminating for the bulk of shipping the untrustworthy route around the top of Argentina, it has without doubt saved numerous lives and millions of greenbacks in lost vessels. Reducing the space between the 2 seas provides Panama with a major share of its G. D. P. The longest part of the canal, sandwiched between large sets of locks at either end, is manmade Gatun Lake and the Gaillard Cut. From the Pacific Sea , near Panama City, the Miraflores Locks' 2 chambers each raise vessels twenty-seven feet. A short distance away, the Pedro Miguel Lock lifts shipping another 31 feet. The Gaillard Cut is followed by the city of Gamboa, where the Chagres Stream enters the canal.

Without the Chagres and the gigantic amount of water that flows from it, there might be no Panama Canal.

The Prius-Goodyear connection also has worked well in an application far different from what drivers of the hybrid auto will experience on standard streets and roads.
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