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After checking out all the great alternative fuel vehicles at the 2015 New York International Auto Show, Autobytel's own Dan Gray brings you the best...

Daimler AG unveiled 18 alternative - fuel vehicles at the Frankfurt auto show, 17 of which will go into production by 2010.

Not exact matches

In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia models from the 2011 to 2013 model years.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

By crowdsourcing the design of the car through its website, fueled by a viral marketing campaign, the Fiat Mio became the world's first fully - crowdsourced vehicle, debuting at the Sao Paulo International Automobile Show to rave reviews.

At the same time, consumption has been falling due to a still - sluggish economy, improved vehicle fuel efficiency and changing driving habits.

Some of these costs, such as energy for our facilities and vehicles, fuel surcharges from our transportation providers, insurance costs and enhanced security levels at our facilities, have escalated beyond our normal operating costs.

E-Nercia (Chile): We are working on the construction of an adaptable kit that reduces the fuel cost of your vehicle in at least 25 % without interfering any engine function.

Subaru has admitted inspectors at its manufacturing plants in Japan «inappropriately altered» the emissions and fuel efficiency data of some 900 vehicles so that the average data...

Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the average fuel economy of new, light vehicles (a designation that includes cars, SUVs, vans and pickup trucks) had reached 25.4 miles per gallon, as compared to 20.8 mpg in 2007.

Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel cell power systems for zero - emission vehicles in China.

At the same time, the U.S.'s thirst for petroleum fuels has stalled as vehicles become more efficient.

The data shows that the beverage industry has the largest fleet of fuel - efficient heavy - duty hybrid commercial vehicles in North America, and has increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) industry - wide by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.

Stephanie Hanson, a policy communications director at a Washington environmental nonprofit, went so far as to investigate her cloth diaper service's delivery processes, to make sure the vehicles were fuel - efficient.

Another eyewitness said that the fire started at about 8 p.m. when an articulated vehicle laden with fuel, fell inside Mobil filling station by DMGS Roundabout.

«I am very pleased that under this Government fuel duty has not been increased at all in the last 5 years, recognising the impact fuel costs can have on the cost of living and business costs - particularly in rural areas where we are reliant on our vehicles.

At the same time, Astorino was commended for his push to convert the county vehicle fleet to hybrid or alternative - fuel vehicles as well as flood mitigation projects.

It seems some Ghanaian vehicle owners have all these while been buying petrol diluted with premix fuel at some filling stations across the country.

Milwaukee County's vehicle fleet is becoming more fuel - efficient, thanks to an infusion of Ford Fusion Hybrid vehicles unveiled Monday at Milwaukee County's Fleet Maintenance facility.

«I think states recognize transportation emissions are a leading source of emissions that need to be tackled,» said Luke Tonachel, director of the clean vehicles and fuels project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Many off - highway vehicles are left running at full power whilst idle for much of their life — such as telescopic handlers, heavy excavators and wheeled loaders — potentially wasting fuel with a direct impact on local air quality.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

An idled program for vehicles driven by fuel cells is gaining new impetus from new programs at the U.S. Department of Energy

But it's a gamble at best to think natural gas vehicles will roll out quickly enough to spread fueling stations across the country so that FCEVs can have access to hydrogen.

Given this promise — in addition to a February 2012 Department of Energy announcement of a $ 30 million competition aimed at finding ways «to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles» — Duoba and his colleague have been ramping up vehicle systems analysis and engine research and testing around CNG as a way to wean ourselves off of foreign fuel sources.

In addition to requiring at least a 10 mpg increase for passenger vehicles over 10 years, the law required «maximum feasible» fuel economy standards.

The Bush administration and automakers are touting fuel - cell vehicles as a nonpolluting technology, but engineers at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT say the nonpolluting claim is not necessarily true.

To meet the 2025 target, the company is pushing all its technologies at once, including the Earth Dreams powertrain technology that improves the fuel economy of conventional gasoline vehicles by 10 percent.

«It wouldn't be a great strategy for natural gas people to hope and wait for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in order to make a mutual strategy,» said Nicholas Lutsey, program director at the International Council on Clean Transportation.

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is «very, very bullish» on fuel cell vehicles, Hyundai Motor America CEO John Krafcik said at the 5th International Environmentally Friendly Vehicle Conference earlier this month, where the company featured its Tucson ix FCEV.

«Because platinum is a rare metal, a lot of the expense that goes into manufacturing hybrid vehicles is coming from the platinum needed to catalyze fuel cells,» said Paul Thibado, a professor of physics at the University of Arkansas.

A study in this week's Scientific Reports by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) and in China add more fuel to the already hot debate about whether electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly than conventional vehicles by uncovering two hidden benefits.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

Alexia Kelly, a climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, points out that other domestic policies, such improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, will bring further reductions.

«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.

Eventually, he adds, the technology might generate hydrogen at a fueling station or even aboard a vehicle, thus avoiding the expense and hassle of storing and transporting hydrogen gas.

When ethanol prices at the pump rise for whatever reason, it becomes economically advantageous for drivers of dual - fuel vehicles to fill up with gasoline.

If you drive a diesel vehicle in the Bay Area, you may have noticed something a little different at your Propel Fuels station.

At least eight states have imposed a vehicle registration fee, ranging from $ 50 to $ 200, for alternative - fuel vehicles: Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

The study, published in the journal Nature Energy, looks unsparingly at the history of hype around alternative fuel vehicles and what policies and innovations are needed to move from current shortfalls to widespread commercialization of low - carbon vehicles.

But Recchia - O'Neill is certainly at the forefront of a transformation of the U.S. — and global — auto market from standard gasoline - fueled internal combustion engines to greener vehicles.

The vehicle will redock with Zvezda on April 25 at 8:16 a.m. Progress 53 delivered 2.9 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the station on Nov. 29 following a four - day journey that included a «flyby» of the station to test a new lighter, revamped Kurs system.

«The idea of automated car - sharing vehicle or a ride - sharing service, when you increase the occupancy of a vehicle, the emissions and fuel use overall are going to be split over those individuals, hence they are going to be lower,» said Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on car - sharing.

«At the end of the day, what's going to truly decarbonize the transportation system is when we move to low - carbon fuel or completely battery - powered vehicles,» which will take decades to see widespread adoption, said Stepp.

Infrastructure limitations may prevent manufacturers at first from rolling out fuel cell cars on the same wide scale as electric vehicles, but they will be on the streets in increasing numbers by 2015.

And while wind energy had been growing at an average annual rate of 27 percent and solar photovoltaic, too, was surging as costs fell sharply, so - called clean coal remained a long way off and governments» ambitions for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles were well ahead of reality.

The Buckeye Bullet team at Ohio State University has produced several of the fastest alternative fuel vehicles in history, including a battery - powered racer that surpassed 300 mph in 2010.

At the end of their stay, they board a launch vehicle filled with locally manufactured fuel, blast off to Mars orbit, rendezvous with a deep - space vehicle derived from the asteroid campaign and return to Earth.

Says David Greene, a transportation researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: «If manufacturers were to take the available technologies and apply them to fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years, they could cost - effectively achieve a 40 to 50 percent improvement without making vehicles smaller.»

The work of investigators at the ITQ, developed together with the University of Oslo and American multinational company CoorsTek, will make it so that vehicles with a hydrogen fuel cell can be recharged with an energetic efficiency and simplicity similar to that of a battery electric vehicle.