Sentences with phrase «more fuel efficient cars on»

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«We bathe on cleaner beaches, drive more fuel - efficient cars and can hold government to account on air pollution,» said Mary Creagh, chair of the house's Environmental Audit Committee.

«Putting more fuel - efficient cars on the road isn't just a great way to save the environment.

Auto industry experts predict that more than 50 percent of cars on the road by 2020 will use a relatively new type of fuel - efficient engine.

One downside of the old car's 6.2 - liter engine was that it was awfully thirsty on gas, returning EPA fuel economy ratings of 13/19 mpg city / highway, but the German automaker claims that the new C63's 4.0 - liter engine is about 32 percent more fuel efficient.

These labels also represent another important mile - marker in the Obama Administration's mission to cut fuel costs for American families, reduce the nation's dependence on oil, and give Americans the tools they need to take advantage of remarkable new technologies that make today's cars cleaner and more efficient than ever before.

On the broader subject of green cars, Leone suggests more hybrid variants are in Cadillac's long term plan, but also states very clearly that being the most fuel efficient luxury brand is not a priority.

They will let consumers see, both in plain print and on their smartphones, how their family budgets will benefit from purchasing more fuel efficient cars — whether they're gasoline, electric, or hybrid powered.

Granted, it's not as economical as a BMW 1 Series diesel, but from the perspective of performance cars, the M4 is a lot more efficient on fuel than most of its rivals.

With fuel prices staying between $ 3.50 and $ 4 per gallon on average, people are looking to move into smaller, more compact and fuel efficient cars.

Using our tools, you can become pre-approved for a car loan, receive an estimate on the value of a potential trade - in vehicle, or even estimate your potential fuel savings with the purchase of your more fuel efficient vehicle!

Based on a week with the car (MY2014), the claimed fuel economy superiority may be tough to realize in real - world driving (especially in the face of the new, more fuel - efficient diesel in the 2015 Jetta, earlier post) but overall, the Cruze Diesel is a worthy challenger, and a very good and thrifty drive, especially on the highway.

The Honda Civic Hybrid might cost you a bit more on the used car market compared to a standard Civic sedan, but the compact battery - assisted model is undeniably one of the most fuel efficient previously - owned vehicles you will be able to find.

Maybe, but as it stands, this trim doesn't seem to do any particular thing well enough to stand out on its own — or steer fuel economy - crazy consumers away from more efficient cars (like the Prius) or value - oriented customers away from similar compact offerings (including the regular Elantra).

A car declines in value the second you drive it off the lot, so while it would be nice to have something newer, more fuel efficient and more comfortable, I would focus on options that have a positive rate of return instead of a negative one.

Similarly, cars are safer, have less emissions, and are more fuel efficient - so a simple inflation calculation based on macroeconomic changes can provide a very distorted and inaccurate picture.

Everyone seems to be environmentally conscious on some level, whether it is by recycling or driving more fuel - efficient cars or using less water; most everyone is doing their part to be eco-friendly.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

Not necessarily the European incentive to go diesel, but at least the price stability that doesn't make carmakers afraid that if they spend a few years making fuel efficient cars, that by the time they're on the market people will be back to wanting SUVs (or at least bigger, more powerful vehicles than what they've been working on).

No, really the priority should be on developing $ 2,500 fuel efficient cars... And showing through our example, a new way of life, with less cars, more bikes, great public transportation, people walking for exercise, car sharing, etc..

When trying to justify the higher sticker prices its methods will impose on vehicle buyers, EPA's analysis rests primarily (again, 56 to 73 percent, depending on the other assumptions) on the view that it will be directly doing these buyers a favor, by making them buy more fuel efficient cars that will pay for themselves.

It's time to take a look at the best deals on hybrid, electric, and fuel - efficient cars for the month of May, and as new - vehicle sales slow, there are plenty of deals to be... read more May 11, 2017 by Sean Szymkowski

For instance, a market - based policy like a price on carbon might encourage consumers to buy more fuel - efficient cars, but it will fall well short of revolutionizing global energy infrastructure and technologies.

Plan 4 is the sneaky plan to increase the ethanol content of gasoline to the point where it will destroy many old cars and force people into buying new cars that the EPA considers green, such as the Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, Nissan Leaf, or at the very least, more fuel - efficient gasoline powered cars that pollute less and will run on E15.

Fortunately, a cleaner, more efficient freight system is possible with technologies available today — but it requires the same forward - thinking that made California a leader on car and truck fuel efficiency, EVs, and cleaner fuels.

Thus, it is not enough to push the sales of fuel efficient cars if such a marketing blitz adds more cars on the road and further encourages urban sprawl.

General Motors and Chrysler will get access to up to $ 17.4 billion in federal loans to keep their businesses afloat and push on with plans to build more fuel - efficient and electric - powered cars.

We must also take action on carbon dioxide emission and that will mean significant adjustments to our economies: more efficient power stations, cars which use less fuel, better - insulated houses and better management of energy in general.

Solutions IBM (or the report writers recommend) are fuel efficient cars, more public transportation, more ridesharing, more telecommuting, combined with the use of technology - congestion charging, but an integrated «multi modal» management system that would be able to generate predictions for operators on what traffic was going to do in the very near future, as well as end user information sent via phones and smart phones, to help those in traffic make alternate solutions.

Technical Details Honda President Takeo Fukui said about the upcoming hybrid: 1) The car will have a global nameplate, 2) the engine will be based on the Civic's, but will use a newly designed motor and engine control unit, making it lighter and more compact, 3) it will be priced below the current Civic Hybrid, 4) it will take its design cues from the FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (pictured above) and 5) it will use nickel metal hydride batteries.It's probably a smart move to use the Civic's engine, as it is very efficient (for a gasoline engine) and not developing a new engine will help keep costs down.

Read on for more... Ambiguous Feelings About the Honda Insight hybrid So maybe the Insight will be under $ 20k when it comes to the US and it will attract many people who thought the Toyota Prius was too expensive, further increasing the number of fuel efficient hybrids on the road, encouraging the development of better ones, plug - ins, electric cars, etc..

Of course, the great promise of driverless cars is that the networked vehicles will eventually make driving safer and more efficient — both in terms of fuel use by optimizing performance on the fly and time by reducing congestion.

It makes no sense to spend money on green infrastructure — or a bailout of Detroit aimed at stimulating production of more fuel - efficient cars — if it is not combined with a tax on carbon that would actually change consumer buying behavior.

A popular criticism of hybrid and fuel efficient cars goes like this: If your car is more fuel efficient, and you know you're saving money on gas, you'll be more inclined to drive more — thus negating any energy and carbon savings you had.

It's only been a short while that you could actually participate in the Cash for Clunkers program — four days in fact — but response was so overwhelming that the program has already depleted its $ 1 billion budget, Raw Story reports: The Obama administration is apparently now scrambling on finding money to extend the wildly successful program, which offered owners of old cars and trucks up to $ 4500 towards the purchase of new, more fuel - efficient vehicle.

What we would like to see from Toyota and other car makers: More affordable very fuel - efficient and low - emission hybrids, plug - in hybrids, all cars flex fuel so that they can run on cellulosic ethanol when it is available (the fuel sensors required for that are apparently only about $ 30 - no reason not to include them in all cars), diesel - hybrids with the latest emission technology (to run on biodiesel where available, of course) and, as soon as battery technology is ready, affordable electric - only vehicles.

Vehicle manufacturers are coming out with more efficient cars every year, whether those cars are hybrid gasoline and electric vehicles, they run on bio-fuels or alternative fuels, or the fuel efficiency of standard gasoline - powered cars is being improved.