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The brake calipers are designed to reduce brake drag when not in use, reducing rolling resistance and improving fuel efficiency in the process.

Like the rest of the industry, Ferrari will have to adopt downsizing and turbocharging in order to improve fuel efficiency in the coming years.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has developed a Dual Injector system designed to improve fuel efficiency in small - displacement gasoline engines using port fuel injection (PFI).

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Trading in an aging McDonnell Douglas MD - 80 plane for a new Boeing 737 — a comparable aircraft — can improve fuel efficiency by about 30 %.

Papa's comments on Tuesday were a stark contrast to the tone of cautious optimism at the conference, where many executives claimed that data analytics and technology, like machine learning, will improve efficiency in the oil patch and fuel further gains.

Even with fuel efficiency improving in automobiles, Americans burned through a massive 406 million gallons a day in June, the most recent month of data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

• Creating cleaner transportation options — by investing in public transit infrastructure, improving our fuel efficiency and transitioning to low - carbon options like electric vehicles;

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Even as we've begun to improve efficiency in factories and power plants, our cars and trucks have grown bigger and more wasteful: average fuel efficiency actually declined in the 1990s, even as engineers came up with one technology after another that could have saved gas.

In addition to upgrading its vehicles, Five Star Food Service is changing its picking and loading process to help improve its fuel efficiency.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systFuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heatinEfficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systfuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systfuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heatinefficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

«Yet the Government response has been to effectively halve funding for schemes to improve heating and insulation standards in properties occupied by financially disadvantaged households, despite the fact that energy efficiency is the most rational long - term solution to fuel poverty.

We have increased our investment in measures to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes which, in addition to making fuel bills cheaper, has also helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from housing, consistent with our ambitions to combat climate change.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

If 6.75 million Californians replace their tires each year, the commission says, a 10 percent change in rolling resistance can improve fuel efficiency up to 2 percent and save 300 million gallons per year statewide.

Efficiency alone — even in the form of aircraft with improved engines and designs such as the Boeing 787, expected to deliver a 20 percent improvement in fuel efficiency over existing big airplanes — is not tEfficiency alone — even in the form of aircraft with improved engines and designs such as the Boeing 787, expected to deliver a 20 percent improvement in fuel efficiency over existing big airplanes — is not tefficiency over existing big airplanes — is not the answer.

EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

These safe GMOs will improve efficiency of such engineered organisms, which are now being used in closed systems, such as the production of pharmaceuticals, fuels, and new chemicals.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

«We found that having a patent in storage technology made companies more likely to apply for another patent, either in renewable electricity generation technology or in efficiency - improving technology in fossil fuels.»

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Ekmark says we are now entering an era in which vehicles will also gather real - time information about the weather and highway hazards, using this to improve fuel efficiency and make life less stressful for the driver and safer for all road users.

«The simulations performed by Argonne found two optimized fuel - engine concepts that could improve fuel efficiency substantially,» said Yuanjiang Pei, a lab scientist who specializes in computational fluid dynamics at the Aramco Research Center — Detroit.

«Every airline is looking for ways to improve fuel efficiency and working with the university team on this evidence - based study was an opportunity for us to use our data differently and engage with our captains in a way we hadn't before,» said Claire Lambert, fuel efficiency manager for Virgin.

«In recent years both the efficiency and cost of commercial solar panels have improved but they remain expensive compared to fossil fuels.

Cars will still be needed in the future for intercity travel, but if cities are to address their escalating emissions, they need to put policies in place that curb vehicle use and improve vehicle fuel efficiency, he added.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

To improve fuel efficiency, advanced combustion engines are being designed to minimize the amount of heat wasted in the exhaust.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

As per - seat fuel efficiency of jet airliners improved, a combination of cheaper fares, increasing incomes, and a growing population raised the number of airborne humans from millions in the 1960s to the current four billion a year.

Through our Vehicle, Bioenergy, and Fuel Cell Technologies Offices, EERE advances the development of next - generation technologies to improve plug - in electric and other alternative - fuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fuFuel Cell Technologies Offices, EERE advances the development of next - generation technologies to improve plug - in electric and other alternative - fuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fufuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fuels.

As discussed above, nano - engineered materials in automotive products include polymer nanocomposites structural parts; high - power rechargeable battery systems; thermoelectric materials for temperature control; lower rolling - resistance tires; high - efficiency / low - cost sensors and electronics; thin - film smart solar panels; and fuel additives and improved catalytic converters for cleaner exhaust and extended range.

He is a leading researcher in the area of catalysis and biorenewable energy, where his work has had a significant impact on improving energy efficiency, particularly in the chemical and fuels industries.

The renewable fuel may lead developing countries in reducing emissions from deforestation, improving energy efficiency, and transforming urban transport.

Ford says only that the EcoBoost V - 6 will make more power and torque than the 6.2 - liter V - 8 in the outgoing Raptor, which packed 411 hp and 434 lb - ft, while also returning improved fuel efficiency.

Set to launch in the U.S. in the spring, the new A4 has sharper styling, new technologies, a significant weight reduction, and new engines that improve fuel efficiency.

Mazda hasn't invested in turbocharging as much as other automakers, instead relying on the low friction of its Skyactiv naturally aspirated engine family to help it improve fuel efficiency.

CEO Dan Akerson or Chrysler Group LLC CEO Sergio Marchionne, «it's the consumer,» Tonkin says, adding many of them are not in a financial position to spend extra money for cars with advanced technologies that improve fuel efficiencies.

The combination is good for 333 hp, 291 lb - ft of torque, and improved fuel efficiency: 19 mpg in the city and 29 mpg compared to 18/27 in the outgoing V - 6 and six - speed automatic powertrain.

Turbocharging could muffle the glorious noise that helps make the 911 special, and manual transmissions could become even rarer in the future in a bid to improve both lap times and fuel efficiency.

Adding the 2.0 - liter instead of the V - 6 in today's IS250 would improve the car's acceleration and fuel efficiency.

We expect to see an updated 2.0 - liter flat - four engine in the U.S. - market car, with improved power and fuel - efficiency over today's model.

Output increases 20 horsepower in both models (the Carrera making 370 hp, the S 420 hp), while fuel efficiency is said to be improved by 12 percent (final EPA figures are still to be determined).

It's also likely the new Chevrolet Volt will ditch its current 1.4 - liter range - extending gas engine in favor of a new 1.0 - liter turbocharged three - cylinder, which would improve the car's fuel efficiency and performance once the battery charge is depleted.

The first application of a 6 - speed automatic, which typically improves fuel efficiency over 4 - and 5 - speed automatics, will be in Hyundai's new...

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

Before you question the environmental impact of this apparently antiquated setup, keep in mind the big Lexus V8 utilises both Otto and Atkinson combustion cycles - the latter familiar to drivers of the fuel - sipping hybrid models - improving efficiency.

Hear the VR - series 3.0 L twin - turbo engine perform and see how its twin turbochargers produce high - performance while improving fuel - efficiency 6.7 percent over the 3.7 L V6 previously available in the Q50 and Q60.