Sentences with phrase «conventional vehicle fuel economy»

Moreover, artificially increasing the popularity of alternative motor vehicles under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards has the unintended effect of decreasing new conventional vehicle fuel economy.

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To meet the 2025 target, the company is pushing all its technologies at once, including the Earth Dreams powertrain technology that improves the fuel economy of conventional gasoline vehicles by 10 percent.

This model pays a fuel - economy penalty, though it's not as great as in many vehicles with conventional four - or all - wheel drive.

Because it also has a battery, hybrids have an increased fuel economy compared to conventional vehicles when it combines both its gasoline and electric mileage.

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

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These vehicles have relatively poor highway fuel economy and some of this is due to the fact that Chrysler Engineering did not like the way the vehicle ran with the Nissan suggested engine speeds so they retuned it to give the feeling of a conventional steped transmission.

Miles per gallon equivalence — MPGe — compares energy consumption of plug - in electric vehicles and other advanced technology vehicles with the fuel economy of conventional internal combustion vehicles in miles per U.S. gallon.

Through this combination of technologies, in a comparison of Honda vehicles in the same class, the new CVT offers 5 % higher fuel economy than a conventional CVT and 10 % higher than a 5 - speed automatic transmission.

The C - Max Hybrid is a conventional parallel hybrid, with gasoline and electric power sources sharing propulsion duties, and is targeted to deliver better fuel economy than the current Fusion Hybrid — which, at 41 mpg combined, is already the most fuel - efficient sedan sold in the U.S.. It's also said to operate in electric - only mode beyond 47 mph; and the vehicle's Powersplit controller is an evolution of what's currently used in the Fusion.

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Under very hot conditions, AC use can reduce a conventional vehicle's fuel economy by more than 25 %, particularly on short trips.1, 2,3 The AC's effect on hybrids, plug - in hybrids, and electric vehicles (EVs) can be even larger on a percentage basis.2

The credit amount depends on the weight class of the vehicle, its fuel economy relative to a comparable conventional vehicle, and the incremental cost.

At present, these advanced vehicles represent a substantially costlier pathway to improve fuel economy on a dollar - per - gallon - saved basis than incremental improvements to conventional technologies, especially when fuel prices are low.