Sentences with phrase «efficient cars fueled»

«We could combat climate change, reduce harm to health and foster advances in automotive technology by offering a stimulus for auto makers to develop more economical and efficient cars fueled by ethanol.»

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But he's already weighing his options, saying if gas goes to $ 4 a gallon he'll buy a more fuel - efficient car to use as his main ride and drive the Land Cruiser only when he needs it.

Add in productivity gains and fuel savings from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.

Since then, Diamandis has launched several other X Prizes: a $ 10 million purse for fuel - efficient cars, another for rapid - fire genomic decoding, and a third, with Google, to send an unmanned rover to the moon, for $ 30 million.

Perhaps by skipping the Prairies in initial launches, car manufacturers also realize there is some truth to the stereotype of Albertans as big truck - and SUV - driving types who are not as interested in fuel - efficient vehicles.

The guy with a really cool idea for a fuel - efficient car needs $ 5 million.

The program allows car buyers to trade in less - fuel - efficient vehicles for up to a US$ 4,500 credit toward a new car.

Growth in the market for hybrid and fuel - efficient cars will help industry revenue grow an estimated 6.3 % per year on average in the three years to 2015.

Toyota saw sales of its gas - electric hybrid cars, such as the fuel - efficient Prius, rise 50 percent compared with February 2010.

Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.

New cars and trucks will be more efficient and there will be more fuel choices — electricity, biofuels and gasoline will compete for your dollar when you need to fill your tank (or charge your batteries).

For a given level of prices, more fuel - efficient furnaces encourage larger houses, and more fuel - efficient engines encourage larger cars.

Sorry I am probably never going to give up my car [it is small and fuel efficient though] but as a reminder that most of what is sold in shops is c ** p and unnecessary, he's the MAN.

The long - run trend indicates that demand for smaller, more fuel - efficient cars has increased relative to demand for light trucks because of rising gasoline prices.

Right now gas powered cars are getting increasingly fuel efficient and electric cars with battery backup in the home and solar on the roof will defeat any attempt at raising prices.

We can cut our gasoline consumption drastically by shifting from SUVs to the new generation of fuel - efficient and alternative energy cars.

Thus, for example, if you tell me that the individual behind the screen is a middle - income English professor, I will predict that he or she is likely to be unchurched, is politically liberal, votes Democratic, drives a fuel efficient imported car, and is pro-choice.

We headed up to the cottage -LRB-!!!!!) on Monday afternoon, straight from the crowded waterfall, and our GPS took us on a seriously gnarly route that had me thankful we hired a 4WD instead of one of those wimpy, fuel efficient cars (those things have no place outside of the city, Ring Road, or Golden Circle, FYI).

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Ah, spring weekends — the time to hop in your fuel - efficient car and head out to the beach or parts unknown.

Publishing an interim report by Professor Julia King, which shows by choosing the most efficient cars on the market today drivers can cut emissions and their fuel bills by up to quarter.

The problem is that with more fuel efficient cars and more expensive gasoline, the gas tax revenues fell.

«To encourage fuel efficient fleets, we will extend the 100 per cent first year capital allowance for low emission business cars, reduce the CO2 threshold for the main capital allowance rates; and increase the percentage list price of company cars subject to tax.

«By choosing the car with the most fuel efficient engine in its class, drivers could reduce their engine CO2 emissions by 24 per cent and potentially save a quarter on fuel costs.

The group bought four Prius vehicles in an effort to promote alternative, fuel - efficient cars.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

«We bathe on cleaner beaches, drive more fuel - efficient cars and can hold government to account on air pollution,» said Mary Creagh, chair of the house's Environmental Audit Committee.

It could also be used to manufacture more lightweight, fuel - efficient cars or trains, Li says.

Historically, low gas prices have pushed Americans toward large, fuel - inefficient cars; price spikes tend to suddenly, and temporarily, boost sales of fuel - efficient models.

Gore does offer solutions: drive fuel - efficient cars, use renewable energy, and fly less.

Among other adjustments that could help double fuel economy are turbocharging with smaller, more efficient engines that produce the same level of power; advanced heat management and cooling systems, which reuse the heat produced in the engine for energy; weight reduction, including broader use of high - strength steel that is already in some cars today; better aerodynamics; more efficient air conditioners, transmissions and lighting devices (including headlights); and increased electrification leading to full hybridization with electric motor and regenerative breaking — all of which currently exist.

General Motors's division in China has developed more fuel - efficient cars that could be exported back to the company's headquarters nation.

«Putting more fuel - efficient cars on the road isn't just a great way to save the environment.

In Europe, about half of all new cars sold are now diesels, some of which are more fuel - efficient than a Prius.

Europeans want fuel - efficient cars that spout less carbon dioxide (CO2), the suspected culprit in global warming.

Auto industry experts predict that more than 50 percent of cars on the road by 2020 will use a relatively new type of fuel - efficient engine.

Sure, compressed air is a clean fuel, but it's not efficient enough to power a car engine that will take you very far or very fast.

How some major auto rental firms have responded to consumer demand by offering fuel - efficient cars

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

And even if drivers switch to more fuel - efficient cars and trucks, the nation's fuel needs are expected to increase by a fifth over the next 20 years, thanks to dramatic increases in car and airplane use.

For example, European Union standards favoring fuel - efficient diesel cars over gasoline cars may lead to more warming, because diesel engines release 40 to 250 times as much soot as gasoline engines.

Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University in East Lansing and his team calculated the carbon - saving impact of 17 practices, such as eschewing tumble dryers, car pooling and buying fuel - efficient vehicles (see the full list below).

The fuel savings from an efficient car would be enough to power all the world's airplane fleets, says MacCready.

The US government has been working with automakers for decades to make cars and trucks more fuel - efficient.

An american inventor is in London this week to demonstrate to the Department of Transport a kit that for a few hundred pounds can make a car cleaner and more fuel efficient.

In the same tests, the car was 11 per cent more fuel efficient than a control car in city driving and 8 per cent more efficient in motorway driving.

For years, the automobile industry has argued that congressional attempts to make cars and trucks more fuel - efficient would compromise passenger safety.

«Graphene drives potential for the next - generation of fuel - efficient cars.»

Having one fewer child would reduce a family's climate burden 20 times more than driving a fuel - efficient car or using energy - saving appliances, according to this statistical analysis.

Graphene could lead to greener more fuel efficient cars in the future by converting heat into electricity.