Sentences with phrase «enough for fuel savings»

Graham said new - car buyers typically keep their vehicles only three to five years, not long enough for fuel savings to make up for the premium purchase price.

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(source) Of course, actual fuel savings probably won't be as large for everybody as it is for me - it seems to help to live in a hilly area or drive a lot of stretches where it's downhill enough to maintain speed coasting but not with the transmission engaged, and it applies mostly to city driving - but it seems like there is still enough savings that it would more than pay for engineering time to developing an improved transmission program.

But make that car a plug - in, with a battery big enough to keep the vehicle in its electric mode for all daily errands and commuting, and the potential fuel savings become truly prodigious.

As for the second prong, CS concludes (read their full analysis here) that Prius owners aren't spending the money they save on gas much differently than money any of save on anything else — sure some of it goes towards carbon - intensive activities, but that fraction is hardly enough to come anywhere close to negating the energy savings earned by the fuel efficient auto.