Sentences with phrase «energy per gallon»

Besides, as I understand it, E85 doesn't produce as much energy per gallon as regular gasoline does.

Ethanol contains 33 percent less energy per gallon than gasoline, so engines fueled with higher ethanol blended gas will attain fewer miles per gallon than those running on conventional gasoline (E10).

It also has high power density, meaning that it produces more energy per gallon than many other liquid fuels.

As far as higher mileage, high - compression engines develop more power than low CR ones, which will help with mileage, but part of the reason diesels get higher mileage is b / c diesel fuel contains more energy per gallon than gasoline — so there won't be any mileage boost from this aspect.

Towing 8000 pounds, the diesel gets substantially better mileage than the gas counterpart, but lightly loaded, the big diesel gets little, if any better mpg than a gas version, but on fuel that has 13 % more energy per gallon.

Not exact matches

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

Every 5 miles per hour over 50 mph is like paying an additional 18 cents per gallon, according to the Department of Energy.

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

In short, it's a tax credit worth $ 0.50 per gasoline gallon equivalent of compressed natural gas, or diesel gallon equivalent of liquefied natural gas, and Clean Energy has been able to claim this tax credit for a portion of its fuel sales each year.

The average retail price for motor gasoline this summer (April through September) is expected to be $ 2.67 per gallon, the lowest price (in real dollars, adjusted for inflation) since 2009, based on projections in EIA's July Short - Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

Albany County's new Waste Heat / Co-generation facility in Menands will not only save money by creating renewable energy, it will also cut CO2 emissions by nearly 1,500 tons per year and will reuse 50,000 gallons of water per day to cool the high - efficiency system.

And whereas many traditional motorcycles can achieve a respectable 50 miles per gallon at a driving cost of about seven cents per mile, an electric bike uses the energy equivalent of about 420 mpg at an operating cost of two to three cents per mile.

In August that hole was plugged: The fuel Appel makes, known officially as renewable diesel, received a subsidy of $ 1 per gallon from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in January.

In the United States, the Obama administration plans to implement rules that push corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards to a fleetwide average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years ahead of the schedule Congress laid out in a 2007 energy law.

GM's fuel cell SUV, Sequel, operates with an energy efficiency equivalent to 39 miles per gallon of gasoline.

This year's proposed cellulosic target — based entirely on the projected output of the three new cellulosic plants — is 17 million gallons, far short of the 1 billion gallons per year that Congress envisioned the industry would be producing by now when it passed the Energy Independence and Security Act in in 2007.

Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper.

Crab, meanwhile, was among the least energy - intensive species to catch in the Dalhousie study, whereas the fuel needed to collect a ton of lobster swung wildly — ranging from 5.3 gallons (20 liters) per metric ton in Iceland to about 38 gallons (144 liters) in Maine to 271 gallons (1,025 liters) in Norway.

It takes 243 gallons (920 liters) of diesel fuel to trawl about 1.1 tons (one metric ton) of the shellfish, according to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making shrimp one of the most energy - intensive wild seafood harvests, with a footprint of 5,395 pounds (2,447 kilograms) of carbon dioxide per metric ton even before processing and transportation are taken into account.

Health standards typically get stricter with time, too, so the degree of energy that needs to be spent per gallon will only increase.

Nearly 40 percent will be feedstock for a 30 - million - gallon - per - year biodiesel plant run by Western Energy Solutions / Concord Blue USA.

They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

The federal Energy Information Administration listed the price at $ 2.66 per gallon for all areas of the West Coast with reformulated gasoline.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

The program will allow the institute to cut $ 436,000 per year from its energy bills, will save more than 18,000 gallons of water a day and reduce the institute's annual carbon footprint by 53 percent.

The main fun to be had in the 2009 Prius is in monitoring the energy - consumption display and trying to increase the average miles per gallon, one tedious digit at a time.

The energy consumption was rated at 40 kWh / 100 miles for combined city / highway driving, corresponding to a fuel economy of 84 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent - MPGe -(2.8 L / 100 km; 101 mpg imp).

Its energy economy is rather high with numbers of 20 miles per gallon in the city and 28 miles per gallon in freeways.

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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.

And, at an EPA - rated 112 miles per gallon equivalent, it's not only the most energy - efficient of the few electric cars already on sale but also the most energy - efficient U.S. car regardless of fuel.

Buy a Mazda6 Grand Touring, opt for the Technology Package, and a brake energy regeneration system bumps the car's city and highway fuel economy ratings by 2 miles per gallon each, to 28 in the city and 40 on the highway, for a combined rating of 32 mpg.

Upgrading to the car's unique i - Eloop energy recapturing system adds a couple of miles per gallon to each respective measure.

Energy delivered by a slightly reformulated 24 - kwh Li - ion battery is the same this year, but Nissan's engineers upped range and miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) to 115 combined, 129 city, and 102 highway thanks to what we call the Apollo 13 treatment.

And while they already achieve more miles per gallon, the Department of Energy has published a few tips on how to stretch those savings even more.

The mpge rating (miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent) equates driving using utility - company - supplied energy vs. driving the same vehicle with a combustion engine.

Electric motors are just much better at that transformation than internal combustion engines - which is why the somewhat wonky EPA conversion for MPGe (the electric equivalent of miles per gallon) shows a Volt getting like 119 miles per electric «gallon» worth of energy, and that conversion is actually pretty conservative.

According to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) gas price forecasts as of May 10, 2011, the average retail price for gas in the United States is expected to be $ 3.66 per gallon in 2012.

Instead, the Department of Energy suggests sensible driving for an estimated gas mileage savings of 5 to 33 percent; this is a gas savings of $ 0.19 to $ 1.27 per gallon *!

According to the Energy Information Agency, it is estimated that this switch has increased gas prices by about $ 0.05 per gallon.

The efficiency of a vehicle, for instance, is typically measured in miles per gallon, or the distance traveled per unit of energy.

As part of this strategy, we worked with Congress to pass energy legislation that specifies a new fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, and requires fuel producers to supply at least 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022.

Dave figured his total energy bill for the month (600 kilowatt - hours [kWh] of electricity for his house + 60 gallons of gasoline for his car) to be $ 280 or so; Tesla estimates it'd take 375 kWh to make their car go 1,500 miles (Dave's monthly driving estimate), so he needs about 975 kWh per month.

Switching to an Energy Star - qualified front - loading (or «horizontal axis») machine can save as much as 7,000 gallons of water per year.

One is a report on the Wheels blog by my friend Jim Motavalli about the possible rebirth of the «air car,» a vehicle that runs on compressed air and a small amount of fuel to run a heater that boosts its range (it is said to get the equivalent of more than 100 miles per gallon when you account for the energy it takes to compress the air).

Consumers could be allotted a reasonable amount of energy for commuting and home heating, but beyond that the cost per gallon should double or triple.

On the proper evaluation of electric motors, we have our Argonne National Laboratory and our Society of Automotive Engineers on record as calculating miles per gallon equivalent based on heat equivalent of electric energy at the plug, without recognition of the heat energy needed to make the electricity.

Europeans already know the high cost of energy, from taxes, but Americans and others are living in a fantasy land of cheap energy even with four dollar per gallon gasoline.