Sentences with phrase «hybrid vehicles as»

These prefectures and cities have also designated compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vehicles, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles as low - emission vehicles and promoted the use of these cars.

In the last few years, Europe as a whole has made a variety of efforts to reduce carbon emissions, by encouraging use electric and hybrid vehicles as well as of alternative modes of transportation.

As the world ushered in the new millennium, naysayers of the automotive world dismissed hybrid vehicles as unproven technology with batteries that would either electrocute early adopters or drain their bank accounts with premature replacement costs.

Considering that we have only had luxury hybrid vehicles as sedans up until now, the option of driving a relatively efficient and eco-friendly crossover model will certainly appeal to many among us.

Plug - in hybrid vehicles as a share of the total market were at 0.26 percent in line with recent months, although trailing the year - to - date result.

Plug in hybrid vehicles as a share of the total market were at 0.27 percent which trails recent months and that of the year as a whole.

Plug - in hybrid vehicles as a share of the total market were at 0.28 percent, in - line with recent months, although trailing the result for year - to - date.

We are taking the necessary steps to develop the technology, the intellectual expertise and the great products to make hybrid vehicles as commonplace as any other powertrain.

Volkswagen will likely use the concept car's debut at CES to reveal its future plans for electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles as it seeks to distance itself from the specter of its diesel emissions scandal.

So we saw the Greater New York Taxi Association, not generally known for its good works (Gene Freidman's bio on the GNYTA website lists the «Israeli Defense Force» as one of his favorite charities), suing the City over ADA requirements, over its failure to allow for hybrid vehicles as stipulated by the City Council, etc etc..

Ford was also the first to use a hybrid vehicle as a pace car when the Fusion Hybrid was the pace car at the Ford 400 in Miami in 2008.

Jaguar Land Rover has introduced its first plug - in hybrid vehicle as part of the Range Rover Sport line - up.

2005 Honda Civic Hybrid Rather than start from scratch to create an all - new hybrid vehicle as Toyota did with the Prius, Honda took a more conservative route by hybridizing its popular Civic.

Not exact matches

Qualification as a Green Giant: The first mass - produced hybrid vehicle, it topped the 2013 Greenest list, an automotive ranking by the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from about 5 percent now.

As far as a vehicle goes, I can get a reliable gas - electric hybrid (a plug - in hybrid, even) for far less than $ 35,00As far as a vehicle goes, I can get a reliable gas - electric hybrid (a plug - in hybrid, even) for far less than $ 35,00as a vehicle goes, I can get a reliable gas - electric hybrid (a plug - in hybrid, even) for far less than $ 35,000.

Rare earth minerals, the 17 elements used in high - tech products such as cell phones and hybrid vehicles, represent another potential source of growth for Canadians over time.

This fact doesn't appear to matter, as a survey of consumers who already own a hybrid or electric vehicle found that more than 75 percent of respondents would likely buy a car manufacturing by Apple...

As it turned out, GM was only one of many automobile manufacturers readying electric or hybrid vehicles to compete directly with Tesla.

PepsiCo operates the largest all - electric delivery vehicle fleet in America, and The Coca - Cola Company operates the largest heavy - duty hybrid electric commercial truck fleet in North America, as Brune and Paglia point out.

We were looking to downgrade into a smaller vehicle — and strongly considered a hybrid — until we learned that the freeway mileage we get in our driven once or twice a week Expedition is just as good, if not better, than the smaller vehicles we looked at.

The UPPAbaby Vista is described as a hybrid between a sports car and a super-utility vehicle because of the luxurious sleek look as well as the multiple functions it serves for parents of one, two or even three children!

Policy makers encourage the use of advance internal combustion engine vehicles (particularly diesel), as well as hybrid technology and emerging plug - in electric vehicles to meet the medium - term demands of the issue (to 2020).

At the same time, Astorino was commended for his push to convert the county vehicle fleet to hybrid or alternative - fuel vehicles as well as flood mitigation projects.

Meanwhile, he added, the steady erosion of fuel duty yield is well known, as vehicle fuel efficiency improves and hybrid, electric and other vehicle technologies achieve significant market penetration.

In this case the Mayor of London proposes to continue his current low emissions scheme, but, rather than widen it to penalise smaller vehicles belonging to small businesses, instead to boost the market for innovative alternatives such as electric vehicles, low - emissions taxis and hybrid buses.

Underground parking conserves space and prevents runoff, and the building's location near public transportation as well as preferential parking for hybrid - vehicle drivers helps to minimize emissions.

Tongji University has been instrumental in advancing the R&D field for new energy vehicles (NEVS), which include electric cars as well as hybrid electric and fuel - cell vehicles.

And that means the material challenge posed by rare earths won't be solved anytime soon, particularly as more wind farms cover the land, compact fluorescent lightbulbs and light - emitting diodes proliferate, and greater numbers of hybrid or electric vehicles hit the road.

«New technologies such as plug - in hybrid electric vehicles and next - generation biofuels could also have a greater impact in the future,» the report states.

Two tech companies grapple with this challenge as they develop an autonomous hybrid vehicle that can feed itself

Officials attributed the strong showing by auto manufacturers to general improvements in fuel economy as well as growing manufacturer investment in hybrid and electric - powered vehicles.

One is that replacing utility power is one thing, but [a] lot of the total energy in the country goes in transportation, so another big assumption is that you'd largely have to convert the U.S. passenger fleet to hybrid plug - in cars and trucks, all that, so that essentially you are fueling vehicles with electricity as well.

Analysts say the 95 g / km 2020 goal as an average across the EU fleet is achievable using conventional combustion engines, but industry opinions are divided over whether pushing below that level could be done with existing engines or require a major increase in electric and hybrid vehicles.

«Dealer contacts noted increased sales of larger vehicles such as trucks and SUVs, and slower sales for small and hybrid cars,» the bank said.

Toyota, currently the world's largest producer of hybrid vehicles by far thanks to the success of its Prius, announced that it expects to have a commercially viable plug - in hybrid available to consumers as early as 2010 and is now testing prototype versions of plug - in hybrids at two California universities.

Jayachandran said the cost effectiveness of the program compared to other approaches to reduce carbon emissions, such as subsidies for hybrid or electric vehicles in the U.S., was eye opening.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

«Whether it's an advanced drive vehicle of any sort — a hybrid, a plug - in hybrid or an electric vehicle (EV)-- the manufacturers are taking it seriously, and they understand it as a growing market,» said Jeremy Acevedo, analyst at the automotive research website Edmunds.com.

However, plug - in hybrids with a real electric range of about 60 km drive the same number of kilometers electrically as battery electric vehicles.

This gap in research has now been closed by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000 battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their vehicles.

«Moreover, hybrids can foster public confidence and prevalence of electric mobility, as they have the same range than cars with internal combustion engines, contrary to battery electric vehicles.»

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

Data evaluation revealed that plug - in hybrid vehicles with a real electric range of about 60 km drive the same number of kilometers electrically as battery electric vehicles, namely, up to 15,000 km per year.

All the vehicles began the endurance event having fully charged their accumulators (whether batteries or capacitors) from the grid, as is the norm for a plug - in hybrid vehicle.

That phenomenon, consuming more when a «green» product is involved, is known as the «direct rebound» effect, and, the authors write, the larger it is, the less green the hybrid vehicle is.

As car buyers turn to fuel - sipping gasoline - electric hybrid vehicles, a new generation of greener hybrids is just coming over the horizon

The birds with flamboyant beaks are one of nature's most adept hybrid vehicles, employing similar flapping motions to propel themselves through air as through water.

As it stands, a conventional Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle, which burns gasoline when its batteries are not engaged, and the all - electric Nissan Leaf produce roughly the same amount of greenhouse gas pollution: 200 grams per mile, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy.