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.
The main goal was that of achieving
the highest fuel economy possible.
They're also important in getting
the highest fuel economy possible out of your car.
Not exact matches
Fuel economy in the mid - to
high - teens is within reach with low twenties
possible on the highway.
Average
fuel economy hovered around 8.0 L / 100 km, according to the trip computer, but to minimise
fuel use the transmission tends to choose the
highest gear
possible around town, which sometimes results in the engine laboring at around 1000rpm.
Since the drivetrain is tuned for
fuel economy, the transmission is quick to short shift into the
highest gear
possible, which is annoying.
Also, it has a wide spread ratio with the first gear designed for a very
high ratio to provide brisk acceleration from the top while the sixth gear has an overdrive ratio to keep the engine revolutions as low as
possible for highway cruising and improved
fuel economy.
Delivering Ford's Blueprint for Sustainability The F - 150's
fuel economy leadership pays off two key elements of Ford's Blueprint for Sustainability — making
high volumes of internal combustion engines as efficient as
possible through EcoBoost technology and achieving substantial vehicle weight savings.
The easiest way of testing for changes in aerodynamic drag is to measure
fuel economy in repeated tests undertaken over a test loop driven at as
high a consistent speed as is legally
possible.
(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol
fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol
fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as
possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for
fuel competition by being flexible
fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open
fuel standard would help to protect the United States
economy from
high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.
Finally, the discovery and use of fossil
fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern
economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes
possible in
high income countries.