In short, even if there was
a gasoline car on the market that got 95 MPG, a 95 MPGe electric car would still pollute less in almost all scenarios.
Every gasoline car on the road has a subsidy, and the right way to address that is with a carbon tax.»
This makes the hybrid feel more like a regular
gasoline car on the road.
It's also the most fuel - efficient non-hybrid
gasoline car on the road.
Talk about a bold claim from Mazda, as the Japanese automaker has said its next Mazda2 subcompact would get 70 miles per gallon, making it the most fuel - efficient
gasoline car on the road.
Not exact matches
Ultimately the success of electric
cars depends
on convincing buyers the range and cost are comparable to
gasoline vehicles, says Matt DeLorenzo, managing editor, Kelley Blue Book.
Autopilot is at least as safe as human drivers
on the highway, in a
car that doesn't use
gasoline and performs like a sports
car, the magazine said.
(Most
gasoline contains 10 % ethanol, but regulators have approached E-15 (15 % ethanol) for use in vehicles manufactured from 2001
on, and all new
car warranties approve the use of E-15.)
«The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to
gasoline cars,» Musk told a crowd in Los Angeles
on Thursday.
Despite her criticism of
car makers, Merkel rejected a blanket ban
on diesel autos, saying that a
gasoline - powered vehicle actually emitted more CO2 than a diesel one.
Musk went
on to cite the ownership cost of the Model S, should it enter production, as «similar to a
gasoline car with a sticker price of about $ 35,000» once the lower cost of electricity versus the likely future price of
gasoline was taken into account.
What people were spending
on car payments and
gasoline can be diverted to ride services and the electricity to support them.
«Looking forward, a healthy global economic forecast for 2018, positive
car sales data in recent months, stronger 2018 yea -
on - year U.S. product consumption in January and potentially tighter global product markets are expected to boost
gasoline and distillates demand...,» OPEC said.
This was interesting because I was currently spending an average of about $ 300 a month
on gasoline in my current
car... which would equate to my lease payment being half as much as I was previously paying for gas.
And this doesn't include the fact that electric
car owners don't pay into the Highway Trust Fund — which is funded by the per - gallon tax
on gasoline and pays for road construction and upkeep.
Kinahan advised investors to pay attention to «Retail Sales Ex Gas / Autos» figure, since it is already well - known that
car sales were positive (based
on automakers» monthly sales reports) and since
gasoline sales «sort of are what they are.»
If you're both doing what it takes to cover the REAL essentials of life, like simple food you prepare, not a dang overpriced restaurant, simple clothing from Walmart / Target / KMart or the salvation army stores, a simple warm safe home, not some 2500 + square foot, half a million + monster
on a lake shore, and a
car that gets you to and from work safely and reliably, not some brand new 50k +
gasoline guzzeler, wth are you complaining about?
There start to be very serious effects
on the economy - meanwhile the rich are still driving around in sports
cars, using as much
gasoline as they feel like.
The Brazilian
car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run
on any proportion of
gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).
Older muscle
cars were designed to run
on older
gasolines that had different formulations.
The sticker price
on a diesel
car is still $ 2,000 to $ 3,000 higher than
on a comparable
gasoline vehicle.
Thanks also to a fuel tax
on gasoline, diesel
cars in Europe have been steadily catching up to their
gasoline counterparts.
Ultimately, however, these
cars will still rely
on gasoline and / or electricity — and that electricity in China predominantly comes from polluting coal.
In the lab (at the Paul Scherrer Institute, near Zurich in Switzerland), «
gasoline cars emitted
on average 10 times more carbonaceous PM at 22 °C and 62 times more at -7 °C compared to diesel
cars,» the researchers noted in their study.
Results of a national FCEV demonstration found that, although less than the range
on a tank of
gasoline, the range
on a tank of hydrogen has consistently increased, and now thousands of
cars are being prepared to hit the market.
Modern diesel
cars emit less pollution generally than
cars that run
on gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.
If we continue to rely
on coal to keep the lights burning and
gasoline to keep our
cars running, we are bound to pay a heavy price.
This is happening because humans have been producing carbon dioxide (for example, by running
cars on gasoline) faster than plants can absorb it, which makes the Earth warmer — and much faster than has happened naturally in the past.
On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered ca
On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running
on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered ca
on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a
gasoline - powered
car.
Experts
on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my
car burns a gallon of
gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.
To find out what vehicles
on the road are currently emitting, Drozd and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rented 25
gasoline - powered
cars, including two hybrids, from residents in the Los Angeles area.
Indresh Mathur, Ph.D., who gave one of the talks, explained that
cars on streets and highways in the U.S. run
on a mixture of 90 percent unleaded
gasoline and 10 percent ethanol.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid
car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying
on the
gasoline engine) to be the electric
car of the future.
As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that
gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to
cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect
on food prices.
They contain more energy per volume; a
car driving
on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a
car on a gallon of
gasoline;
on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.
The Chevrolet Volt, which GM plans to introduce in two years (reportedly at a mid - $ 30,000 base price), is a new breed of
gasoline - electric hybrid,
cars powered by a battery - powered electric motor that can be recharged
on the road with an internal combustion engine.
They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving
gasoline / electric hybrid
cars than by driving fuel cell
cars run
on hydrogen from coal.
Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric
cars as for hybrid
cars designed to run
on batteries in pollution - choked cities and
on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel —
on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all
car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).
In a separate pilot at a small filling station in the northern port of Haifa, about a dozen
cars have been running for months
on various mixtures of
gasoline diluted with methanol.
São Paulo has the world's largest flexible - fuel vehicle fleet, with
cars that can run
on all
gasoline, all ethanol or some mix of the two.
But the reality is that nearly all of the more than 250 million
cars and trucks
on the road today guzzle
gasoline refined from oil, and don't do it very efficiently.
Global Bioenergies will use an EN228 - compliant
gasoline blend containing more than 34 % of renewable, isobutene - derived, compounds to fuel a
car on a circuit.
But electricity, biofuels, and hydrogen (in 20 to 30 years) can replace more
gasoline cars steadily every year from now
on.
And yet, in terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, grid - charged
cars are still cleaner than their
gasoline - powered counterparts, and that's particularly true in California, where we rely largely
on natural gas to make electricity.
Plug - in hybrids are
cars that would be built to run primarily
on an electric battery, but if extra power were needed for a long drive, a
gasoline engine would kick in.
But if your
car is
on fire, and you start putting
gasoline in your
car, you can create problems, obviously, right?
These are meant to act as fuel that will help you gain the energy to take
on the day's activities, the way a
gasoline tank fuels a
car.
Any
car designed to burn
gasoline will run correctly
on the same gas.
As an analogy,
on the same
gasoline, a Lamborghini goes faster than some lemon — but not because the chemistry of
gasoline combustion is different in the sports
car.
The
gasoline leads us over to your body and calories: just like a
car, your body runs
on fuel.