Over a one-mile distance on Interstate 84 northeast of Hartford, the fastest 5% of drivers routinely flaunt the 65-mile-per-hour speed limit by driving 85 miles per hour.
The Ford Focus Electric is powered entirely by a 23 kilowatt hour lithium ion battery, and capable of a top speed of 84 miles per hour.
The EPA's traditional highway test is conducted at an average speed of 48.3 miles per hour and a top speed of 60.
In the video, a motorcyclist is seen reaching a speed of 299 kilometers per hour (186 mph) weaving between cars, but authorities think his actual speed may have been even faster.
McLaren says the P1 will accelerate from 0 to 62 miles per hour in less than 3 seconds and will achieve a top speed of more than 217 miles per hour.
It'll do 0 to 60 in under 10 seconds, and can sustain a top speed of 110 miles per hour.
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With a screaming top speed of 30 miles per hour, they're obviously meant for short trips and not for the highway.
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His client's decision to trigger the emergency brake lowered the train's speed to 45 miles per hour from 73 mph and likely saved lives, Mr. Cahill said.
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The car can travel 186 miles, more than the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, on a single charge with a top speed of 87 miles per hour.
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For the city test, the cars are driven on an 11-mile, stop-and-go journey at an average speed of 20 miles per hour that lasts 31 minutes and includes 23 stops.
If you are really gentle with the accelerator, you can supposedly get up to highway speed (62 miles per hour) on pure electricity, without the gas engine ever kicking on.
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Its average speed reaches 43 miles per hour.
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Drivers on the winding, heavily traveled Saw Mill River Parkway frequently reach speeds of 78 to 85 miles per hour between the towns of Elmsford and Hawthorne, despite the 50-mile-per-hour speed limit.
Most notably, it found that drivers in just about every state stay within the speed limit on average, with only Mississippi edging 0.1 miles per hour over the top speed limit of 70 MPH.
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The sanctity of mortgage obligations has become the rough moral equivalent of the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit.
But with every mile per hour you speed up you greatly increase your risk of losing control of your vehicle.
The lovely Crystal Serenity is cruising at full speed (22 nautical miles per hour) toward Miami on the last day of the Forbes Investor Cruise.
The EN-V runs on battery power and plugs into a wall -- giving it a max speed of about 30 miles per hour and a range of about 30 miles.
The vehicle has a single-speed transmission that makes it feel sprightly off the line, producing acceptable acceleration (reported at 9.5 seconds from zero to 60), good for around town, and a top speed limited to 85 miles per hour.
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Among them: enactment of a national speed limit of 65 miles per hour, freight industry participation in an Environmental Protection Agency program to reduce fuel consumption, and a reduction of highway congestion by raising the fuel tax if necessary.
Jean Romagnoli, sports medic and personal trainer working to get the miners in shape for their rescue, said the Phoenix capsule would be hoisted to the surface at a speed of about 60 kilometers per hour and would exert about 2 Gs of pressure on the miners.
The car was traveling over 20 miles per hour over the speed limit.
The average congested speed of 11.2 miles per hour at its worst interchange is up from 9.7 miles per hour in 2007.
Within a few laps, he is circling the third-of-a-mile track in less than 20 seconds, for an average speed of more than 60 miles per hour.
On the other hand, sticking with the traditional approach, which limits water speed to less than ten miles per hour, would leave Marines exposed to enemy fire for much longer.
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And then once I pass the city, or pass another sign with a new distance, I'll change my speed by a mile or two per hour and do the same thing.
Drivers attempting long road trips, as in one BBC test drive, have reported that recharging takes so long that the average speed is close to six miles per hour a bit faster than your average jogger.
Things get a bit more interesting when you get down to specific routes in the United States, however, where the I-15 in Utah and Nevada comes out on top with an average speed of 77.67 miles per hour.
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In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.
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