Sentences with phrase «cars use electricity»

For example, the cost of energy required to move a car using electricity is approximately 1 / 4th that of using oil.

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Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

The ritual mandates the absence of work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 - hour period during which no flights are allowed in or out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

On Day of Silence no flights are allowed in or out of the island, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

On concerns about power use, Bakken said his personal electricity bill had risen 5 percent from charging his car at home and fears of surge demand were overblown.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

It should be the fuel of the future as you can burn it in a car or furnace, use it to generate electricity.

Well if you don't like science, why are you using a machine that science enabled you to have or why use electricity or drive a car or get medical attention?

Granted, the believers are perfectly happy relying on scientists and science to — I don't know — talk to people around the world instantaneously via this comment board, and then get in their cars, and fly in planes, and use electricity, and watch TV — all of those things based on science, and yet, when someone points out that scientists have mapped the human genome and other primates and can show, irrefutably, where the different primate families branched off — well, no, no no!

(In case you're curious, it is the invention that puts a little wind generator on the top of a car to create electricity off the forward motion of the car to reduce the amount of energy the car uses.

They can be used with multiple power sources: electricity, AC adapters for use in a car / 12v, and batteries, or a rechargeable battery pack.

In times of continuous clear weather Joppa Flats can produce more electricity than it uses, which means there's no cost in «re-fueling» electric cars.

His invention is human - powered (using a treadle, like an old sewing machine) and can charge old car batteries that then provide electricity for night - time LED lighting (so kids can read!)

Benefits in kind: electric vehicles Commenting on the news that, from April 2018, there will be no benefit - in - kind charge on electricity that employers provide to charge employees» electric vehicles, Colin Ben - Nathan said: «If an employer provides electricity to an employee to charge their own car, a benefit in kind arises based on the cost of the electricity used for private mileage, but there is no clear guidance on how to calculate the cost of electricity and it is therefore necessary to estimate the cost.

It uses the same batteries as electric cars to store energy, either from renewables or cheap night - time electricity, ready to be used during the day.

Thompson's nine - minute video details step - by - step construction of an oxyhydrogen generator, using electricity from a car battery to convert water into hydrogen.

If you take into account the energy used to produce the electricity, and compare it with a well - to - wheel analysis of the most efficient diesel - engine cars available today, the difference is already fairly small, says Kintner - Meyer.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

Those cars charge up their batteries with electricity generated when the car brakes and then used that «recycled» energy to power their electric motors, which take over from the vehicle's gasoline engine at low speeds and in stop - and - go traffic.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

Cars that either partially or entirely use electricity to function make up slightly more than 3 percent of the U.S. auto market, the lowest share since 2011 and a sharp contraction from 3.5 percent last year, according to EDTA.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

It's far more efficient to burn the biomass for electricity and then use the electricity in cars.»

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Sodium - Sulfur Batteries Sodium - sulfur batteries work much the same way as the lead - acid battery that starts your car; both use chemical reactions to store and produce electricity.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

For one, not all car manufactures are equipping their vehicles with inverters that can used for bi-directional electricity flow.

For example, they compared the cost of driving one mile using electric car batteries plus electricity, with the cost using fuel tanks plus petrol.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

Cities are not just where 3.5 billion of us live — they are where more than half of humanity uses electricity, drives cars, and throws out garbage, among myriad other activities that emit greenhouse gases.

As we have proven, combining the two gives us synergy — a more efficient use of electricity and it also improves engine braking, which stops the car faster with lesser wear on the brake pads.»

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

But what if human beings could mimic photosynthesis and use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce fuels that generate electricity or power our cars and aeroplanes?

Plug - in hybrids benefit from the more efficient use of fossil fuels in electricity generation even now and so have lower emissions than internal combustion engine cars, and if they get their juice from renewables, emissions would be very low indeed.

Electric car operating costs are translated into an mpg equivalent, or MPGe, using individual states» electricity costs as calculated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Electric cars» upstream carbon dioxide emissions are also calculated using DOE data on the electricity source for each state.

This car uses gas to provide more power for acceleration and electricity to provide long - term power for maintaining speed.

Indicators on the dash show the car's charging status, and owners will also be able to connect with the car using Hyundai's BlueLink smartphone app to manage the car's charging schedule to take advantage of different electricity rates.

In order to explain why the lights dim when you start the car, consider the following: your car, on average, uses a reasonable amount of electricity.

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

Even if we used 100 % coal to generate electricity an EV would still be cleaner than a gas car due to the superior efficiency.

Slow starts and feathering the accelerator pedal can keep the car running off electricity up to 30 mph, but I found there's a better strategy: use the gasoline motor to accelerate up to 25 mph (this reduces the amount of road rage you'll witness), lift - off the gas pedal to shut the engine off, and gingerly accelerate.

The hybrid Golf's aptitude at transitioning between electricity and petrol almost makes you reluctant to engage its sportier mode, but press the «GTE» button alongside the gearlever and the car uses both of its motors to increase performance rather than improve efficiency.

If tomorrow cars are cleaner and use cheap electricity instead of expensive oil then we will be able to drive them even more so we will be, human race, definitively a world of obeses once for all, so thanks but no thanks

As do many high - performance hybrids, the 911 would use electricity as a power - adder rather than a fuel - saver, with Blume adding the car will have «a special button for the electric punch.»

Every time the driver uses the brakes, it converts that mechanical brake energy into electricity to recharge the car's battery.

It uses only an electric motor to move the car, while a petrol engine is used as a generator producing electricity that goes directly into propelling the electric motor or, when electricity is in excess, to charge the batteries (similar to BMW's REX).

Rather than reuse that electricity as drive energy, though, the Mazda3 uses it to power all of the car's auxiliary systems, taking some of the generator load off the engine.