Sentences with phrase «cars on ethanol»

Despite extrapolating from current realities, it felt much like an update of a 1950s «tomorrow world» public service short: the reader is invited to imagine a home with solar panels AND «several» wind turbines on the roof, not to mention a biofuel system which powers one of your cars on ethanol brewed from the wastes automatically collected from your family's food scraps... Gee whiz!

The statements are made that we can not run ALL our cars on ethanol, so forget it.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

Not exact matches

(Most gasoline contains 10 % ethanol, but regulators have approached E-15 (15 % ethanol) for use in vehicles manufactured from 2001 on, and all new car warranties approve the use of E-15.)

The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).

Adding new infrastructure at the terminals did not prove daunting; railroads delivered tank cars full of ethanol on time.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

Indresh Mathur, Ph.D., who gave one of the talks, explained that cars on streets and highways in the U.S. run on a mixture of 90 percent unleaded gasoline and 10 percent ethanol.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

São Paulo has the world's largest flexible - fuel vehicle fleet, with cars that can run on all gasoline, all ethanol or some mix of the two.

There are cars designed to run on E85 (85 % ethanol, 15 % gasoline).

The Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car is based on the production Z06 — already one of the fastest and most powerful cars on the market — and is powered by E85, which consists of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

The customized Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car runs on E85 ethanol, a domestically produced alternative fuel.

The automobile industry had dozens of alternatives that were either ignored or tentatively explored (Henry Ford had intended the Model T to run on ethanol; the electric car is more than a century old).

Allow companies to build windmills off of Martha's Vineyard, set up some solar panels on the roof of the state capitals, require squad cars to run on ethanol.

And a report last year found that the vast majority of cars on the road were not built to handle higher ethanol levels.

We have wasted billions of dollars on such «strong» policies as coal - derived synfuels; subsidies for the commercialization of wind, solar and electric cars; and worst of all, the ethanol mandate.

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.

An older ethanol powered car like a 2008 Chevy Impala E85 may cost $ 22,000 on average.

Robert Zubrin thinks the United States can break free from the grip of Middle East oil - producing countries by immediately mandating that all cars sold in this country be «flex - fuel vehicles,» capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol.

To make sure demand for ethanol will grow substantially, the association wants a federal mandate that all carmakers receiving federal aid would make only cars that can run on a blend of up to 85 percent ethanol, starting with the 2010 models.

The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine.

On a more personal level, Crist installed solar panels on the governor's mansion and was transported around Tallahassee in an ethanol - powered caOn a more personal level, Crist installed solar panels on the governor's mansion and was transported around Tallahassee in an ethanol - powered caon the governor's mansion and was transported around Tallahassee in an ethanol - powered car.

Automakers were given fuel economy credits for selling cars capable of running on fuel that is 85 percent ethanol (known as E85), under the theory that this would help drive E85 to market and we would use less oil.

EPA's final rule still relies on unrealistic increases in the sales of higher ethanol blends despite the fact that most cars can not use them.

Next up, Brazil, a land of cars running on flex fuels using sugarcane ethanol; then it's on to the gas - guzzling city of Houston, which under the leadership of Mayor Annise Parker is working to support e-vehicles and get fifty percent of its power from wind by 2030.

# 1 Turn food into fuel... «Already, half of the nearly 11 billion bushels of corn produced each year is turned into ethanol, and most new cars are capable of running on E10 (10 % ethanol and 90 % gas).»

Adapting cars to pure ethanol can be done relatively inexpensively by adding a fuel sensor and corrosion - resistant hoses, but there are only about 4 million flexible - fuel cars on U.S. roads out of more than 200 million.

Brazil's widely know for running a whole heck of a lot of cars on sugarcane - based ethanol.

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.

I drive on ethanol car in order to stimulate technology development.

With the millions of people around the world on the verge of starvation, ethanol takes a huge quanitity of food and uses it, not for people to consume, but for fuel for cars and trucks.