Sentences with phrase «fuel vehicles instead»

The EPAct requires all federal agencies with light duty fleet vehicles in major metropolitan areas to ensure that at least 75 % of their fleet purchases each year are alterative fuel vehicles instead of traditional petroleum - fueled cars and trucks.

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He said the changes will help more businesses fuel their vehicles onsite instead of «making repeated trips to service stations or frequently filling very small tanks.»

Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation.

In theory, if a city or region has policies that encourage biking instead of driving, the researchers should be able to see the change in consumption patterns, with less car fuel consumed and fewer vehicles overall and a drop in consumption - based transport emissions, she said.

The National Program does not set a single fuel economy target number for all vehicles, but instead it establishes separate footprint - based standards for passenger cars and light trucks.

In fact, when accelerating from a stop where other vehicles require the most fuel, the Prius V calls upon the electric motor instead of using gas.

In diesel engine vehicles, this service is instead a fuel water separator replacement.

I had a Mazda 6 as a courtesy car for a couple of weeks, and my only regret was that I didn't purchase that vehicle instead - it was one of the most fun cars I've driven in a while (really good blend of quiet performance and fuel economy between sport and eco modes).

Further, the vehicle does get relatively good - to - great fuel mileage, especially on the highway, and it does so with a single motive source, instead of a dual powertrain like a hybrid has.

Instead, just like with crash test ratings, the government steps in to perform testing and come up with a vehicle's fuel economy.

All vehicles are run through the same EPA fuel - efficiency test but the test is not administered by the EPA, instead the automakers conduct the test and EPA often conducts reviews.

Changes could encourage manufacturers to adopt fuel - saving technology instead of downsizing vehicles.

Instead, you slip into your garage, connect your fast charger and effortlessly fuel up your electric vehicle for the week.

Instead, Frank said, automakers promise hydrogen - powered vehicles hailed by President Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, even though hydrogen's backers acknowledge the cars won't be widely available for years and would require a vast infrastructure of new fueling stations.

Think instead of open ponds of brackish water on non-arable land teaming with microbes that produce an oil film that floats on the surface that is easily removed and can be put straight into the fuel tank of oil - burning vehicles.

FFVs look and perform just like «regular» vehicles, with one difference: instead of running solely on gasoline, they are designed to burn alcohol based fuels (ethanol and methanol), gasoline, or any mixture of the two.

Instead of average vehicle fuel economy ratcheting up to that level, it would stall out at 42 miles per gallon.

Instead of the original mandate on petroleum use, Capitol Weekly reports that these so - called «Transportation Electrification» provisions use marketplace competition between utilities and the tech sector to cut California's reliance on petroleum as a transportation fuel and grow zero emissions vehicles.

Eventually, instead, maybe we'll be driving hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Now, you don't have to ditch the perfectly good car you have, but instead of buying a new gasoline - powered vehicle, try to choose one that has the lowest emissions and highest fuel economy possible.

To put it in non-engineering terms, American cars and trucks are 2 times dirtier than the vehicles in Europe because of how we rate and measure the ratio of pollution to fuel used instead of pollution to miles traveled.

A far less costly option, although still a fossil - fueled one, might be the as - yet - unreleased $ 6,800 Elio Motors vehicle, which is touted as being capable of getting 84 mpg, but there's another contender in the race to build clean affordable vehicles, and instead of being powered by electricity, the $ 10,000 AIRPod boasts of being a «Zero Pollution Vehicle» because it runs on compressvehicle, which is touted as being capable of getting 84 mpg, but there's another contender in the race to build clean affordable vehicles, and instead of being powered by electricity, the $ 10,000 AIRPod boasts of being a «Zero Pollution Vehicle» because it runs on compressVehicle» because it runs on compressed air.

And instead of spending on average $ 2400 per year on fuel for the vehicles the NEV will be replacing, it will have to spend only $ 400 for the electricity to power the NEVs.

The Act requires all federal agencies with light duty fleet vehicles in major metropolitan areas to acquire at least 75 percent AFVs each year instead of traditional petroleum - fueled cars and trucks.

Instead of extending EPAct's alterative fuel vehicle purchasing requirements to private and municipal fleets, DOE announced a «Catch 22» ruling declaring it would neither revise the Act's 30 % goal to a more realistic target nor apply the alterative fuel vehicle purchasing requirements to private and municipal fleets because even if it did so it would still fail to meet the Act's original 30 % goal.

If the public monies being directed to wind power in Maine were instead directed to energy efficiency and conservation programs for Maine families, each household would be eligible for $ 15,000 for insulation, better windows, heating system upgrades, or a more fuel efficient vehicle.

Instead of offering customers the option to purchase a vehicle, Riversimple aims to use a unique proposition to mobility, in which customers will enter a long - term lease agreement with the company, and in return, will receive the use of the vehicle, all maintenance for it, and insurance, along with a virtually unlimited number of refills of hydrogen for the fuel cell.

, writing to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton late last year, pitted pipeline construction against clean energy, asserting that «proponents of this pipeline would be wiser to invest instead in job - creating clean energy projects, like renewable power, energy efficiency or advanced vehicles and fuels.»