Sentences with phrase «fleet fuel use»

In public spaces, towns can look at providing solar powered on - site compactors, which can hold five times the amount of waste as a traditional bin, dramatically reducing collection trips and thus fleet fuel use.

These include reducing vehicle fleet fuel use 30 percent by 2020, recycling at least 50 percent of waste by 2015, and buying environmentally responsible products.

Not exact matches

The new route uses its new fleet of Airbus A350 XWBs, a widebody aircraft that claims to use 25 - percent less fuel compared to its aluminum long - range competitors, like Boeing's B777.

With WorldFleetLog fleet management software, vehicle, driver and fuel costs can be applied to specific projects to produce detailed reports that managers can use in their business decisions.

Using LNG for maritime fuel could help the maritime fleet lower its emissions, a Finnish company said Friday.

One company that used the fleet management software to collect and analyze data to create a fuel - usage improvement plan saved $ 1 million in 18 months.

This will be achieved through a combination of high carbon trading and offset; the use of sustainable fuel such as from waste and fuel - burn reduction through a more efficient aircraft fleet.

Virtually the entire U.S. nuclear reactor fleet participated in this program by using fuel fabricated with low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Owners and operators of a fleet of vehicles use these services to monitor driver performance for unauthorized or unsafe vehicle usage, as well as analyze data such as the current location of a vehicle, fuel consumption, mileage, emissions status and diagnostic trouble codes.

In its continuing effort to increase fleet fuel economy and meet stricter environmental regulations, Ford may use aluminum in future versions of is popular Explorer and Expedition...

Engineers from Colorado - based Lightning Systems are using artificial neural networks to predict accurately the fuel economy and tailpipe emissions of fleet vehicles.

«We believe industry fundamentals such as the age of the vehicle fleet, well managed inventory levels, firm used car pricing, good credit availability and low fuel prices will support higher industry sales in 2016,» said Mustafa Mohatarem, GM's chief economist.

**** A Fleet Financials survey shows that, on average, fleets that use a managed fuel program realize savings of up to 15 % on their overall fuel management costs compared to fleets that do not.

It aims to reduce the energy used by all types of transport fleets by encouraging more efficient operations in reducing fuel costs and emissions.

Today, LATAM Airlines Group's fleet averages seven years old, one of the most modern in the industry, resulting in greater fuel use efficiencies and less greenhouse gas emissions.

**** A Fleet Financials survey shows that, on average, fleets that use a managed fuel program realize savings of up to 15 % on their overall fuel management costs compared to fleets that do not.

So on one alternative that gets outsized attention for the potential it provides (recycling restaurant cooking oil (WVO) as auto fuel) perhaps the best use of this fuel is in large city bus fleets.

Half of Navy to Use Alternative Energy Sources by 2020 By 2015, the Navy has established a target of halving its petroleum use in its non-tactical commercial fleet (some 50,000 vehicles) by using hybrid, flex - fuel, and electric vehiclUse Alternative Energy Sources by 2020 By 2015, the Navy has established a target of halving its petroleum use in its non-tactical commercial fleet (some 50,000 vehicles) by using hybrid, flex - fuel, and electric vehicluse in its non-tactical commercial fleet (some 50,000 vehicles) by using hybrid, flex - fuel, and electric vehicles.

We need to do a «full court press» to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear (which also releases heat into water on a large scale, and supports nuclear military programs), using existing and near - commercialization battery, solar and wind technology, and design systems to cost - effectively convert the existing 600 - million - plus vehicle fleet rather than waiting for replacement.

The White House plan to curb fuel use and greenhouse gases from America's fleet of cars and trucks is «a great first step after eight years of wandering,» said Lee Schipper, an energy and transportation maven with joint appointments at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.

Up until the mid-2020s demand growth remains robust in the New Policies Scenario, but slows markedly thereafter as greater efficiency and fuel switching bring down oil use for passenger vehicles (even though the global car fleet doubles from today to reach 2 billion by 2040).

Ray Long, vice president of National State and Federal Government Affairs at NRG noted his company, one of the largest independent power producers in the nation, owns a fleet that uses diverse fuel sources, including nuclear, coal, gas, wind, and solar.

Well, Walmart installed a bunch of solar and is using it to produce hydrogen for its new fleet of fuel cell forklifts.

Finally, low gasoline prices also have short - term effects in the form of more driving and fuel use by the existing fleet of motor vehicles, which is bad news in terms of emissions (and congestion).

British Airways, in partnership with the Solena Group, will establish Europe's first plant for sustainable jet - fuel and plans to use the low - carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014.

One exception has been some use of liquid natural gas (LNG) and other fuels for fleets of buses or delivery vehicles, although not substantially for privately - owned ones, and the use of corn - derived ethanol mixed with gasoline in proportions up to 10 per cent ethanol («gasohol») in some states.

We call for a substantial improvement in energy efficiency; and electrification of the global vehicle fleet and all other downstream uses of fossil fuels.

Changing the certification fuel to E15 or E30 is at odds with the 22 million motorcycles and all - terrain vehicles currently in use, not to mention the legacy fleet of cars, boats, lawnmowers, generators and hundreds of millions of small engines in commerce today.

This eliminates any supposed benefits of having a fleet of cars that can use fuel containing up to 83 percent ethanol.

In addition, SMUD is reducing its vehicle emissions through the use of low carbon fuels as well as investments in a fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles.

Our distributors transport the green fuel to organizations that can use it, such as those with fleets of trucks, buses and other machines that can run on green fuel.

Hydrodec recently acquired the business and assets of OSS Group, the UK's largest collector, consolidator and processor of used lubricant oil and seller of processed fuel oil, with a national network of oil storage and transfer stations, currently serviced by a fleet of more than 90 trucks which collect used oil and other garage workshop waste from over 30,000 customers.

Subtitle F: Federal and State Procurement -(Sec. 782) Sets a deadline by which the head of any federal agency that uses a light - duty or heavy - duty vehicle fleet shall lease or purchase fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen energy systems to meet prescribed energy savings goals.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced $ 2.2 million from the Environmental Protection Fund is now available in rebates for municipalities to purchase or lease electric, (plug - in hybrid or battery) or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for municipal fleet use, and for installation of public charging or fuel cell refueling infrastructure.

The research measures the impact of increasing numbers of PHEVs between 2010 and 2050, including the nationwide environmental impact of potentially large fleets that would use electricity from the grid as their primary fuel source.

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

help diversify the fuels used for transportation (i.e., anything that can be turned into electricity can now fuel our transport fleet),

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

The United States could have achieved the same reduction in oil use (~ 11 billion gallons of oil per year) by simply improving (average fleet) vehicle fuel efficiency by just over ONE MILE PER GALLON.»

Three out of four vehicles in the U.S. fleet weren't built to use E15, and the fuel isn't compatible with motorcycles, boats, lawn equipment and ATVs.

Transportation Efficiency Carbon Offsets — Carbon Offsets from the transportation sector primarily focus on reducing emissions resulting from gasoline or diesel fuel used in fleet trucking operations.

Here's how this could happen: Without Renewable Alternatives, Liquid Coal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rise.

The program encourages policies and practices to eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling, uses upgrading («retrofitting») buses that will remain in the fleet with better emission control technologies and / or fueling them with cleaner fuels as well as replaces the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less polluting buses.

The production of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from organic waste for use as a vehicle fuel is an emerging strategy that businesses, states, and municipalities in the United States are pursuing to make use of waste - derived methane and lower the carbon footprint of vehicle fleets.

After the first Gulf War, former President George H.W. Bush declared in signing the Energy Policy Act of 1992 («EPAct») that this new law would «place America upon a clear path toward a more prosperous, energy efficient, environmentally sensitive, and economically secure future» by promoting the use and development of non-petroleum fuels in domestic vehicle fleets.

While the Altima hybrids are the first alternate fuel vehicles to be used as regular police cars, the NYPD already uses hybrid vehicles in its parking enforcement fleet as well as electric scooters.

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.

While air travel is a big no - no when it comes to monitoring carbon footprints, the airlines have made major changes in the last couple of years to retrofit airlines, streamline routes, and even use different fuel sources in order to make the fleet stronger and greener.

Frito - Lay is adding over 1,200 fuel efficient vehicles to their fleet so store deliveries will have a lower carbon footprint.It'd be great to see the company using radically better vehicles - like all electric, or even electric hybrid - but we're still giving them some snaps for the choice to go with Sprinter vehicles, which give them a 50 % better fuel efficiency rate over what they're currently using, as well as a 28 % reduction of CO2 emissions per vehicle.

However, estimating a long - run relationship for motor fuel use per capita was difficult because of the efficacy of the CAFE standards to influence fleet fuel economy.