Sentences with phrase «dioxide per mile»

Riding your bike to work emits zero greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 0.85 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile for the average car.

There is also the environmental question: trains produce at least four times less carbon dioxide per mile than planes, and even less when compared with short - haul flights.

The rules require automakers to have by 2025 a fleet average minimum emissions standard of 163 grams of carbon dioxide per mile, or the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon.

When run in Europe's standardized fuel economy and emissions test cycle, the Flextreme is expected to produce less than 60 grams of carbon dioxide per mile.

«American cars emit close to a pound of carbon dioxide per mile traveled.

By 2016, a manufacturer's full spread of vehicles for sale must emit an average of no more than 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile (5.5.

Not exact matches

The 747 - 8 model emits 16 fewer tons of carbon dioxide emissions per trip and it can fly 1,000 miles farther than its current counterpart.

These heat maps show carbon dioxide emission differences between drone and truck deliveries as a drone's energy requirements (measured in watt - hours per mile) and the number of stops on a route increase.

The increased particulate matter can be attributed to the adoption of a gasoline direct - injection fuel system, which results in improved fuel economy and therefore lower carbon dioxide emission per mile driven.

Replacing some of the lawn with groundcover would mean spending less weekend time behind a power mower, which produces more carbon dioxide, not to mention noise, per mile than any automobile.

Compared with a typical, 30 - mile - per - gallon automobile, the Volt will save these motorists about 500 gallons of fuel a year, which also will result in a substantial cut in annual carbon dioxide emissions which are associated with climate change.

Volvo expects to achieve an all - electric range of up to 50 km (31 mi), and a fuel economy of 124 miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent (1.8 l / 100 km), with carbon dioxide emissions averaging 49 g / km.

It is like saying that if you drive at 55 miles an hour the carbon dioxide emissions from your car will be less than if you drive at 70 miles per hour.

The captured carbon dioxide, which was expected to be about 1.5 million metric tons per year, would have been injected into geologic formations about 1.5 miles under ground.

«[Fifteen] per cent of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions come from cars, and a quarter of our car journeys are less than two miles long», states Brenda Boardman of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (6).

A car that gets 20 miles per gallon will emit about 50 tons of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

[T] hey found that lamb raised on New Zealand's clover - choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed.

Carbon dioxide emissions per passenger mile on Europe's high - speed trains are one third those of its cars and only one fourth those of its planes.

When compared with the standard hybrid, the plug - in hybrid at 68 miles per gallon (MPG), achieved a 58 - percent increase in gas mileage, a 37 - percent decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) tailpipe emissions, and a 10 - percent reduction in fuel costs.