Sentences with phrase «about fuel savings»

Looking at the box for the part, it says it's a high performance part and does not say anything about fuel savings.

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Americans have been tapping into their savings to help fuel their spending, but there are questions about how long it can continue.

Ford Motor Co. announced this year it is looking to make the body of its popular F - 150 light - duty truck largely out of aluminum, which would reduce the truck's weight by about 700 pounds and produce about 10 percent in fuel savings.

Had we not had that major failure and drove it for another 5 years at least we would've been about even with all the savings from fuel.

These labels will give consumers better, more complete information — including expected savings over a five - year period, a fuel economy comparison to other vehicles in the same class, as well as guidance, on a scale of one to ten, about each car or truck's environmental impact.

The redesigned label provides expanded information to American consumers about new vehicle fuel economy and fuel consumption, greenhouse gas and smog - forming emissions, and projected fuel costs and savings, and also includes a smartphone interactive code that permits direct access to additional web resources.

the 10 - speed is more about driver control and unobtrusive operation than fuel savings.

I tried eco for about two miles to confirm that engine power was indeed down in the name of fuel savings and sport really did liven up things with snappier throttle response and optimal power output.

This technology offers fuel savings to the customer when two or more Freightliner trucks closely follow each other, lowering aerodynamic drag and adding safety, because V2V reaction times have dropped to about 0.2 or 0.3 seconds; humans response time is usually not faster than one second.

Most importantly, when comparing models with the same features, the Toyota was about $ 7,000 cheaper, so even with the slightly better fuel economy of the Ford, the gas savings would never make up for the premium in price (not to mention the increased insurance costs of Fords aluminum body).

You feel like you have to keep slowly adapting your style of driving but also the way you go about the races and understanding how the racing develops — the little nuances of fuel - savings and trying to eek things out to the end of the stint while going as fast as possible.

Making a decision about vehicle financing can be a little easier when you estimate your monthly payment, or determine how much you should budget for a new vehicle or calculate expected fuel savings.

The V8070 models are said to have a 100 - mile range per charge, with a rating of about 50mpg (e), which could result in an estimated 70 % fuel cost savings when compared to a conventional vehicle.

If your car's engine were 30 % more efficient, would you complain about the extra pocket money you had from fuel savings?

Tesla estimate fuel savings of about $ 10,000 over 5 years compared to a gasoline vehicle, so actual price of ownership over 5 years could be $ 62,500 (minus any state or local incentive).

According to NREL calculations, Helman noted, if a future gas price of $ 4.50 per MMBTU is assumed, a relative fuel savings benefit of CSP with TES over PV is about 0.5 cents per kilowatt - hour.

That's a tough nut to crack because new technologies are almost always more expensive at first, and, as Brad alluded to, the price of an EV effectively includes a prepay against savings on fuel costs that customers think less about than purchase price.

But the group isn't entirely certain about the details, and calls for more research on consumer behavior, to understand how consumers will likely respond to price signals baked into retail electricity rates, especially when electric vehicles «result in significant fuel cost savings.»

Buying a vehicle meeting these new clean car standards would increase a car buyer's monthly payment compared to today's average new vehicle, but the monthly fuel savings would more than offset the additional cost (by about $ 40 per month, on average).

This endeavor, the company says, will mitigate 3,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, while infusing the local economy with $ 1.4 million in fuel - cost savings and creating about 50 local jobs.

That's Less Than a Day's Fuel Consumption Good on the Army for thinking about electric vehicles, but to put some perspective on the amount of fuel saved by this move consider this: The yearly savings of all these electric vehicles is less than one day's overall fuel consumption of 340,000 barrels of Fuel Consumption Good on the Army for thinking about electric vehicles, but to put some perspective on the amount of fuel saved by this move consider this: The yearly savings of all these electric vehicles is less than one day's overall fuel consumption of 340,000 barrels of fuel saved by this move consider this: The yearly savings of all these electric vehicles is less than one day's overall fuel consumption of 340,000 barrels of fuel consumption of 340,000 barrels of oil.

I recently met with my financial advisor to talk about divesting my retirement savings from fossil fuels.

A Northwest Passage and Northeast Passage through the Arctic Ocean would provide a distance savings of about 25 percent and 50 percent, respectively, with coincident time and fuel savings.