Sentences with phrase «fuel vehicles made»

While both these alternative fuel vehicles made their debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show earlier this year, the Los Angeles show marks the first stateside showing of this new family of vehicles from the Bavarian automaker.

This would require most petrol or diesel vehicles to be phased out by 2060, with electric or other low - carbon alternative fuel vehicles making up the vast majority of sales well before that date.

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Dr. James Sandercock, trained as a microbiologist before getting involved with biodegradable plastics and making fuel - grade ethanol for vehicles, is Chair of NAIT's Alternative Energy Technology program.

What else it offers: The car may not be available for purchased, but the hydrogen fuel cell technology may make an appearance in other Toyota vehicles.

Subaru executives said Friday that some employees had manipulated fuel economy data on some Japanese - made vehicles, according to a report the company released Friday.

The decision cited the auto industry's complaint that the popularity of larger vehicles makes hitting fuel - efficiency targets more difficult.

In a statement, transport minister Paul Maynard said it could help make vehicles more energy - efficient and save costs: «Advances such as lorry platooning could benefit businesses through cheaper fuel bills and other road users thanks to lower emissions and less congestion.

Those fuel - price economics make sense not just for EnCana, which has converted 163 of its 1,700 vehicles and 15 of its drilling rigs to natural gas, but for larger fleet operators with no special interest in promoting gas.

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.

The stations will be usable by fuel - cell vehicles made by other companies.

That's encouraged local carmakers to make around 60,000 alternative - fuel passenger vehicles a month.

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.

This amendment would make a largely technical change that would exempt from taxation fuel used in vehicles operated not only by a farmer, but also by someone with a close family or business relationship to the farmer.

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.»

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.

While the combination therapies block off the principal pathway that cancer cells use to fuel their growth, the cells come to bypass this blockade and, like vehicles on a detour route, make use of additional pathways to continue growing and spreading.

The president, meanwhile, made a strong argument for more efficient use of gasoline through alternative vehicles and strengthened fuel economy standards.

This comes as automakers from around the world are struggling to make low - emissions vehicles scale up in China, the United States and other markets where programs and regulations are calling for massive gains in fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years.

«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.

In the bipartisan 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, we increased new fuel economy standards for vehicles, along with other provisions to increase energy efficiency, save drivers money, reduce pollution, and strengthen our security by making America less dependent on foreign oil.

Emerging technologies could make the internal combustion engine substantially more fuel - efficient, even as green vehicles make inroads

Firing solid rocket fuel motors within 10 milliseconds of an IED blast temporarily makes the vehicle weigh 120 tons, freezing it in place and protecting everyone inside

So depending on the route that vehicle runs, the fuel may make more or less economic and environmental sense.

Hydrogen fuel cells may be the best option for powering zero - emission vehicles: Toyota has just introduced a hydrogen - powered car in Japan and will make them available in the United States in 2015.

If the synthetic natural gas made by the plants were used to fuel vehicles, the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be twice as large as from gasoline - fueled vehicles.

Carmakers, for example, are developing porous polymers and new steel alloys that are stronger and lighter than steel, ostensibly making vehicles both safer and more fuel efficient.

... From now on, we're going to make those civilian vehicles flex - fuel capable, plug - in hybrid or cars fueled by clean natural gas.»

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.

The Resonance is not a plug - in vehicle, but it nonetheless pushes the limits of fuel economy in the SUV class, which will help bridge the gap in consumer acceptance of electrified vehicles, while also helping automakers make inroads toward the mandated 54.5 mpg fuel economy target by 2025.

Such collaborations, Wong says, should one day make it possible to rationally design superior catalysts for affordable fuel - cell vehicles.

The oil business makes enough hydrogen to fuel more than 30 million hydrogen vehicles, he notes, adding, «the petroleum industry will provide us with the hydrogen infrastructure.»

Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so hydrogen - fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.

If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles.

The challenge is to make enough of these fuels economically and in a form compatible with today's vehicles.

Ekmark says we are now entering an era in which vehicles will also gather real - time information about the weather and highway hazards, using this to improve fuel efficiency and make life less stressful for the driver and safer for all road users.

Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for the growing fuel cell electric vehicle market, the researchers concluded.

This will make it possible for a fuel cell vehicle to reach any distant corner of Germany without fear of running out of hydrogen before finding another refueling station.

Toyota hopes to reduce its costs per fuel cell vehicle to around $ 50,000 by 2015, which would make such cars economically viable in the marketplace.

The result will quadruple the number of public stations available and make it possible for a fuel cell vehicle to reach any location in the country.

With good compatibility with gasoline infrastructure, isobutanol has properties that could make it a direct substitute for gas as a vehicle fuel.

Payload makes up only about 5 per cent of the takeoff weight of a space vehicle; the huge amount of fuel the launcher needs to lift it into space makes up most of the rest.

That makes it attractive for large vehicles; although you need special strong fuel tanks, the specialist operators can handle that.

With autonomous vehicles likely to one - day make their debut on the nation's roadways — possibly as early as within the next decade — researchers are already thinking about how these vehicles might assist with traffic flow and fuel consumption.

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.

Expensive fuel and steady, long - distance driving are also arguments for diesel in areas like Europe, where they make up more than half the passenger vehicle market.

The rule itself is technology - neutral, but the aggressive target pressures car companies to make and sell all types of electrified vehicles, a category that includes hybrids, plug - in electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles.

Car magazines are filled with articles about driverless cars, battery - powered vehicles, and climate - friendly fuels made from corn or algae.

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