Sentences with phrase «emissions than all cars»

This produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars and trucks combined.

Mid-range travel — over 300 kilometers, or about 185 miles — should turn over half its passengers to rail, which moves a person for less energy and emissions than a car does.

According to the study, battery electric vehicles offer a more affordable way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions than cars powered by hydrogen, citing lower costs and higher energy efficiency as the main reasons for the advantage.

«[A] n electric car running on power generated by dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.

«The global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, planes, trains and ships combined,» the Guardian explains.

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This, it added, was greater than the annual emissions of all trucks and cars in the U.S.

In other words, says Surace, the «built environment» presents a far greater opportunity than oft - demonized cars and light trucks, which produce 9 percent of emissions.

(European cars had different emissions - reduction hardware than U.S. cars, so the software had different impacts, VW has said.

Emissions Analytics, a U.K. - based consulting company, says it has tested the real - world emissions of more than 400 dieEmissions Analytics, a U.K. - based consulting company, says it has tested the real - world emissions of more than 400 dieemissions of more than 400 diesel cars.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

Its conclusion — that drive - thrus create fewer emissions than parking lots — is based on a finding that when parkers turn off their cars, the catalytic converter cools and is less efficient at reducing emissions.

Tesla also collects hundreds of millions from competing automakers by selling environmental credits in California and more than half a dozen other states to car companies that can't meet the states» «zero emissions» sales mandates.

Even if a midsize EV manages to last 20 years and 150,000 miles, total CO2 emissions would be just 19 % less than a comparable gas - powered car, according to an analysis by Arthur D. Little.

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

Over the last year, the Carbon Trust has worked with companies including Allied Bakeries, Dairy Crest, Cadbury and Nestle to identify more energy efficient manufacturing processes with the potential to cut industry carbon emissions by some 450,000 tonnes a year: equivalent to taking more than 150,000 cars off the road.

Something I learned that surprised me is that factory farming of animals causes something like 3x more emissions into the atmosphere than a car does!

To put these numbers in perspective, the amount of carbon dioxide the state would need to reduce, to make up for Indian Point's closure, is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse - gas emissions of more than 2.4 million passenger cars.

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

A study by the alliance, a nonprofit group supported by the banking industry, claims that if just 2 percent of American households switched from paper to electronic billing, more than 180,000 trees would be spared and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by the equivalent to taking 32,572 cars off the road.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

My car annually produces 26,000 pounds of greenhouse - gas emissions — more than two killer whales» worth of pollution.

Forest depletion ultimately contributes more GHG emissions than all the cars and trucks in use worldwide, says Werner Kurz, a forest ecologist with Natural Resources Canada, who was not involved with the study.

«Battery cars a better choice for reducing emissions than fuel cells.»

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.

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.

VW has been cheating in emissions tests to make its diesel cars appear less polluting than they really are — we look at the options the company now faces

Indian emissions, for example, are expected to leap nearly eight-fold to 540 megatons by 2050 from 70 megatons now but the researchers found this rise could be reduced by more than a third if cities managed to cut down car use.

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.

They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving gasoline / electric hybrid cars than by driving fuel cell cars run on hydrogen from coal.

The regulations that set fuel - economy and greenhouse - gas emission goals for cars and trucks have lower costs and higher benefits than previous analyses report, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.

Within the sector, light - duty vehicles like passenger cars and smaller trucks, including SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans, were responsible for more than 50 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

And to negate some of the advantage this approach automatically gives to electric cars (whose greenhouse emissions include those generated by electric utilities), the award also incorporates other measures in its criteria, including a cap on greenhouse gas emissions of no more than 200 grams per mile.

«Globally, twice as many emissions come from generating electricity than from all forms of transportation — planes, trains, cars and others,» says Carol Battershell, vice president for strategy and policy at the company's subsidiary, BP Alternative Energy.

n Denver, 41 percent of Denver B - Cycle bike trips replaced car trips, and the entire program is estimated to have avoided more than 1 million pounds of CO2 emissions, said Nick Bohnenkamp, executive director of Denver Bike Sharing, which owns and operates Denver B - Cycle.

Think of a holiday road trip's effect on the climate this way: The amount of heat a car contributes to the atmosphere because of its carbon emissions may be 100,000 times greater than the actual heat given off by its engine.

Anyone who would like to drive a cleaner car than the law requires today does have an alternative, though: with NOx emissions way below 10 milligrams per kilometer, the natural / biogas vehicle that was also included in the measurements fared around 60 to 140 times better than the diesel cars.

Not every system collects CO2 emissions data, but so far researchers have found that for nearly all bike - share systems, the switch from cars to bikes is less than 20 percent, Buehler said.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

California can reduce carbon emissions by more than 70 million metric tons by 2030 — akin to taking 15 million gasoline - powered cars off the road in one year — by adopting a higher target for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), according to an analysis released by the UK - based research firm Cerulogy.

And yet, in terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, grid - charged cars are still cleaner than their gasoline - powered counterparts, and that's particularly true in California, where we rely largely on natural gas to make electricity.

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.

That's a great shame, but perhaps not unexpected - for one, Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal has meant significant belt - tightening and it's cheaper to spin off new versions of existing models - like Clubsport Golfs - than it is to develop an entirely new car, even on a modular platform like the MQB setup underpinning many of the Group's current models.

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) was studying European diesel cars and discovered the on - road emissions of some models were notably higher than those measured in lab testing.

CARS.COM — Even if the Volkswagen Group gets regulatory approval to fix some 475,000 four - cylinder diesel cars in its ongoing diesel - emissions scandal, the repaired systems could still pollute more than they originally certified under.

Other notable factors are a lower proportion of diesel - powered engines across the Australian car and LCV fleet than in Europe, fewer government incentives for lower - emissions vehicles and relatively low fuel prices compared with Europe.

One reason is that cars are heavier than they used to be due mostly to safety and emissions requirements.

Though some had labelled it as almost blasphemous to suggest the next GT will utilise anything less than eight - cylinders, the new car's shift to a smaller capacity, forced induction unit was almost inevitable given increasing global pressure to lower emissions.