Sentences with phrase «cars off the road»

The environmental impact, according to co-founder Jessica Scorpio, has huge potential: One car on Getaround takes 10 cars off the road and can offset 100 million pounds of carbon emissions.

Each shared car, she explains, can take up to 30 cars off the road and «have a big impact on decreasing congestion and improving air quality.»

Each facility, Surace says, should achieve carbon savings equivalent to taking 65,000 cars off the road.

Since it was founded in 1999, the company estimates it has taken 25,000 cars off the road.

There have been a high rate of drunk driving accidents during past Super Bowl Sundays, which is why Tostitos has partnered with Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving to try to keep 25,000 cars off the road on game day.

Cohen acknowledges that this is a less - than - elegant solution for a company dedicated to getting cars off the road, but she says the company is working with its partners to develop different pricing plans that could help solve the problem.

The 90 - Mt saving «is like taking every car off the road in Canada or closing 20 to 23 coal plants in a year,» said Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna.

By 2030, Canada's Clean Fuel Standard is expected to reduce carbon pollution by 30 million tonnes — equal to taking more than seven million cars off the road.

Last - mile electric vehicle sharing company will help cities get cars off the road, curb traffic and greenhouse gas emissions

That's enough to power seven million homes, displace nine million metric tons of CO2, and the equivalent of taking nearly two million cars off the road or planting around 240 million trees.3

It will blow these little want to be hot cars off the road.

Their executioner: their brother, acting on instructions from the father to run their car off the road.

She added: «If we stopped wasting food just from our homes in the UK, it would be the equivalent of taking one in four cars off our roads.»

We've been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 - year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.

Over the last year, the Carbon Trust has worked with companies including Allied Bakeries, Dairy Crest, Cadbury and Nestle to identify more energy efficient manufacturing processes with the potential to cut industry carbon emissions by some 450,000 tonnes a year: equivalent to taking more than 150,000 cars off the road.

In total, 34 % of all glass containers were recycled, equivalent to taking 210,000 cars off the road each year.

It is expected to save more than $ 2.7 million in annual energy costs and remove more than 25,600 tons of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent to taking more than 4,900 cars off the road, according to Cuomo's office.

«Expanding bus service helps take cars off the road and provides opportunity and access for thousands of Suffolk County residents.»

If we get that right, we could take 40,000 cars off our roads everyday.

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

In their letter, the officials argued the project should move forward because it could potentially take thousands of cars off the road and ease the commutes of some Staten Islanders, who have one of the longest daily commutes in the country.

Town Attorney Mario A. Giacobbe said having a temporary shelter in the town will help reduce police department overtime and avoid taking a patrol car off the road, «simply to take a dog to West Seneca, which could take up to two hours depending on traffic volume.»

Preliminary estimates indicate the converted farm prevents the production of greenhouse gases equivalent to 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — like taking some 1,000 cars off the road.

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

A study by the alliance, a nonprofit group supported by the banking industry, claims that if just 2 percent of American households switched from paper to electronic billing, more than 180,000 trees would be spared and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by the equivalent to taking 32,572 cars off the road.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the use of landfill - gas - to - energy projects reduces greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of taking 16 million passenger cars off the road.

Last year's drop, according to the city, was the equivalent of taking 71,000 passenger cars off the road.

Over the two years it has been converting its supply chain over to Bluesign - approved vendors, The North Face has saved 85 Olympic swimming pools worth of water, 38 tanker trucks worth of chemicals, and carbon emissions similar to taking some 1,100 cars off the road for a year.

Employers can also subsidize employee mass transit costs, and / or allow more workers to telecommute (work from home) so as to keep more cars off the road altogether.

The EPA suggests that recycling in the U.S. reduces the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution as taking more than 38 million cars off the road.

But such techniques don't really keep more cars off the road; they only accommodate more of them.

«That's the equivalent of taking 210 million cars off the road.»

We have taken millions of cars off the road in terms of emissions and cleaner air.

On Wednesday, China's commercial capital, Shanghai, introduced emergency measures, allowing it to shut schools and order cars off the road in case of severe smog.

Changes in the way electricity is generated meant the average Briton saved 400 kg of carbon dioxide — equivalent to taking 1 in 3 of the country's cars off the road.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.

California can reduce carbon emissions by more than 70 million metric tons by 2030 — akin to taking 15 million gasoline - powered cars off the road in one year — by adopting a higher target for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), according to an analysis released by the UK - based research firm Cerulogy.

The carbon reduction associated with the project is equivalent to taking 9,738 cars off the road.

Transit X, an eco-minded transportation startup, thinks that we need a new type of public transportation that will encourage more people to take their cars off the road.

If every American did so, it'd be the equivalent of taking 5.8 million cars off the road in terms of greenhouse gas emissions saved.

If every American home (especially those in urban areas) went whitetop, it would have the same impact as taking 300 million cars off the road, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

According to the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit research and education organization, if everyone in the U.S. abstained from meat and cheese just one day per week, the reduction in emissions would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road.

It would also save as much polluting carbon dioxide as taking 110,000 cars off the road.

Get car off the road, put it in park, and try to restart.

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This is equivalent to taking 27 cars off the road.

«By taking cars off the road and reducing harmful emissions and pollutants in our nation's most natural and pristine settings, we're helping Americans and visitors from around the world enjoy these public lands as they were meant to be enjoyed,» said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff.

I pulled the car off the road immediately.

You'll also find that a few Discovery owners take their cars off road from time to time, so have a good look underneath to check there are no signs of damage and no significant scuffing to suspension components, bumpers or the underside of the engine.

The aluminum underbody guard at front and rear emphasizes the width and protects the car off road.