Sentences with phrase «greater use of electric vehicles»

Since 2008, FedEx has saved more than 158 million gallons of vehicle fuel by replacing vehicles with more efficient models and making greater use of electric vehicles, fuel cells, natural gas, hybrids and clean truck technologies.

The study estimates that hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution could be avoided if the US moved towards renewable energy and greater use of electric vehicles and trains.

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I am also thrilled to see a Comptroller who has a commitment to our environment be it for electric vehicles, cutting down on pollution and safeguarding the monies used to preserve our state parks and other areas of wilderness in our great Borough and State.

As we teased a couple of weeks ago, the new Mitsubishi e-Evolution concept not only signals the automaker's commitment to changing the way people look at its brand by placing a great focus on electric vehicles, but also using the new e-Evolution Concept to gauge customer reaction to several other technologies.

The Sport Hybrid version of the MDX will also offer active dampers, an electric servo braking system and four different driving modes — all items that won't be found in the standard gasoline - engined models — with the Integrated Dynamics System using nine different systems in the vehicle to offer a greater range of selectable driving characteristics for the driver.

In anticipation of a future society which will make ever greater use of a variety of renewable energy sources, Mazda has a long history of research and development into electric powered vehicles.

It introduced about 37 megawatts of solar PV generation spread over 265 locations across the city (enough to power more than 9 000 Japanese households) has deployed over 2,000 electric vehicles, and has seen great success in using incentives to limit electricity use.

The locals where in amazed and it was a great demonstration of the use of an electric vehicle in a place where cycling right now is almost impossible.

Frito - Lay is adding over 1,200 fuel efficient vehicles to their fleet so store deliveries will have a lower carbon footprint.It'd be great to see the company using radically better vehicles - like all electric, or even electric hybrid - but we're still giving them some snaps for the choice to go with Sprinter vehicles, which give them a 50 % better fuel efficiency rate over what they're currently using, as well as a 28 % reduction of CO2 emissions per vehicle.

Interestingly, Honda also showed a concept last year, for something called a «Honda power manager» - this device, a kind of fully connected and integrated charger - would potentially integrate into your smart home and allow vehicle - to - grid power flow, which electricity companies and power grids have great interest in, as if they can occasionally use your car to balance the grid demand, it could negate the need to build new power stations to meet the extra demand electric cars have the potential to create.