Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel vehicle»

The clear message: buy a hybrid, and if you insist you want a fossil fuel vehicle, then pay for the collateral damage it's doing to your neighbors.

Thus, a low - energy electric vehicle provides the same utility as a high - energy fossil fuel vehicle, so a switch to electric vehicles would reduce energy demand, but not utility demand.

NOx, which are produced by combustion, such as in fossil fuel vehicles, is one of the key components of both smog and acid rain, and the billboards are said to «reverse the equivalent of 5,285 vehicles» worth of NOx emissions per month.

The logical error associated with using this statement to defend new fossil fuel infrastructure like fracking wells and bitumen sands pipelines (as well as new fossil fuel vehicles or power plants) is so obvious that it may seem unnecessary to state, but the quip is so popular among those trying to delay adequate action on climate change that it requires a quick rebuttal.

And it's batteries that hold the key to the future of electrification: the quest to deliver EVs that can truly replace fossil fuel vehicles centers on improving battery technology... Read More →

Electric vehicles and charging stations will expand if a timeline is set for banning new fossil fuelled vehicles.

Not exact matches

France is the latest country to announce plans to eliminate fossil fuel propelled vehicles, but it's hardly alone.

Volvo Cars, owned outright by Hangzhou, China - based Geely Auto, has already stated it will cease production of fossil fuel - powered vehicles by 2020.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

After his departure, China said it plans to accelerate the use of alternative - energy cars, phasing out sales of fossil - fuel vehicles and turning the province into a free - trade port.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Organizer 350Vermont says the campaign is about coming up with solutions to get the state off fossil fuels and make a fair and equitable transition toward renewable energy, electric vehicles and improved public transportation.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

And while CNG vehicles would generate emissions from their tailpipes, the Argonne team believes that their overall emissions footprint would be smaller than that of an electric vehicle drawing power from the fossil - fuel - based electric grid.

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

As city - dwellers and tourists switch from riding fossil fuel - powered vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

«We would never let countries that sell us fossil fuels build our military vehicles, but we give them a say in whether they operate,» U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit on March 20.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

Around 60 to 70 more would need to buy an electric vehicle for the utility to meet its goal under the renewable energy standard to reduce the use of fossil fuels, he said.

Among the first eco-cities ever announced, Dongtan was planned to be zero waste, energy - efficient, powered largely by sea breezes and free of vehicles running on fossil fuels.

Ozone doesn't just live high in Earth's atmosphere; near the ground, it contributes to smog, and ground - level ozone has gradually increased in most places because of industrial pollution from vehicles and fossil - fuel burning.

In 2012 carbon emissions from vehicles on the road accounted for 28 percent of the total fossil - fuel CO2 emissions for the entire country — a sizable chunk to target for reductions.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

Whether it's swapping your car for an electric vehicle, or your natural gas furnace for geothermal heating, transitioning from fossil fuels to electric - powered technology is widely believed to be the best way to lower carbon emissions.

(5) reduction in transportation sector emissions through increased transportation system and vehicle efficiency or use of transportation fuels that have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions that are substantially lower than those attributable to fossil fuel - based alternatives;

Scientists employed methods developed in this study to tag each source of aerosol, such as fossil - fuel burning from vehicles and power plants, or biomass burning, and follow its path in the model.

The remaining 39 billion tons of annual human - made CO2 emissions come from other activities like burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles and producing concrete.

These projects will receive funding support from DOE's Office of Fossil Energy (FE), and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), subject to appropriations.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

Environmentally speaking, the Model S is classed as a zero - emissions vehicle, but as most of the UK's domestic electricity is generated by fossil fuel - burning power stations (as of 2014, about 30 per cent gas and 29 per cent coal), every mile you drive still has a CO2 consequence.

In an effort to develop more environmentally friendly vehicles, and to help reduce earth's dependency on fossil fuels, Honda will be launching the Clarity lineup of electric powertrain vehicles, with the first coming towards the end of 2016.

The Kia Niro is a hard - to - categorize small family vehicle that is perfect for starting families that want to plug in to help limit fossil - fuel usage.

It's no secret that autonomous and electric vehicles are expected to go hand in hand in the future, reducing the stress on fossil fuels as well as us human beings.

This energy can then be redeployed to drive the vehicle, further reducing fossil fuel consumption.

DETROIT — Tour the North American International Auto Show here — you have until tomorrow, if you're one of those last - minute types — and you can find lots of touted environmentally friendly technology on concept and production vehicles designed to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels.

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The Army is in the midst of a significant transformation of its fleet of 70,000 nontactical vehicles (NTVs), including the current deployment of more than 500 hybrids and the acquisition of 4,000 low - speed electric vehicles at domestic installations to help cut fossil fuel usage.

An important source of insights in coming weeks will be a new series in The Times, «Beyond Fossil Fuels,» that kicked off today with a look at Portugal's push on wind power 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.

This can cut fossil fuel usage by a factor of 2 - 5 over conventional vehicles.

Various researchers studying the interface of climate and energy policy have said that such technology is well worth pursuing, particularly given that oil and other liquid fossil fuels are almost surely going to be burned — particularly in vehicles or other dispersed sources — for many years to come, according to many assessments.

«UPS is working with ARRIVAL here in the UK because their smart electric vehicles are helping to reduce dependency on fossil fuel.

That said, the idea that electric vehicle charging behavior and, by extension, electric vehicle charging economics will be anything like our «fueling» behavior for gas - or diesel - powered cars may prove to be a temporary holdover from the fossil fuel era.

The fossil fuel industry loves selling fossil fuels and the car industry loves selling vehicles that burn them.

If that happens, will the fossil - fueled climb in vehicle miles, on roads or in the air, resume?

Though most of the time when TreeHugger covers electric cars, we're talking about hybrids, plug - in electric concept vehicles — basically substitutes for vehicles now powered by fossil fuels — some of which even putting the Porsche

But I suspect the larger significance — at this stage of the game — is that the largest motor company in the world (ranked by production volume) is now committed to all but eliminating fossil fuels from both its manufacturing plants and its vehicle drivetrains in the next 35 years.