Lighter, torquier, and quite a bit more powerful, the tweaked 6.2 - liter V - 8
actually uses less fuel than the version in the E63 and the S63 (although U.S. EPA figures are not yet available).
Not exact matches
Eco changes the throttle and transmission pattern to create a more relaxed response regardless of how you're
actually driving, a provision designed to
use less fuel.
It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct
fuel injection that replaced the
less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed
used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy
fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly
less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are
actually little to show for any significant advancement in
fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.
But he wouldn't mind having bragging rights that his new SUV doesn't just go fast, it
actually uses a bit
less fuel.
Actually, if you properly do the math - and count if you count the whole nuclear
fuel cycle, not just the power plant, not just the core of the reactor, but the occlusion zone, the uranium mining and so on, it turns out that wind power
uses hundreds or thousands of times
less land per kilowatt hour, then nuclear does.