Sentences with phrase «gas than conventional vehicles»

Plug - in hybrids typically emit less greenhouse gas than conventional vehicles.

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In breaking down the United States region by region, the group concluded that 45 percent of Americans live in areas where EVs emit lower levels of greenhouse gases than a conventional 50 mpg vehicle.

Electric hybrids generated 40 to 65 percent less greenhouse gas than gas - fueled vehicles and 7 to 46 percent less than conventional hybrids.

Berman, author of This Crazy Time and co-founder of ForestEthics, pointed out that every independent study, including one from the U.S. Department of Energy, has found that the oil sands are one of the world's dirtiest forms of oil, producing three times more greenhouse gas emissions per barrel produced, and 22 per cent more than conventional oil when their full life cycle of emissions, including burning them in a vehicle, is included.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found in a survey of published literature that because tar sands oil is more carbon intensive than conventional crude oil, the Keystone XL pipeline would increase U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of «approximately 558,000 to 4,061,000 passenger vehicles» annually:

And from the time it's mined until it leaves the tailpipe as vehicle exhaust, a gallon of gas from tar sands oil generates 17 percent more climate change pollution than conventional gas.

In terms of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, electric cars and trucks are often cleaner than even the most efficient conventional vehicles.