Sentences with phrase «in car efficiency»

Growth could reach up to 5 - 10 % of total transport energy, depending on future oil and carbon prices, improvements in car efficiency and technological advances.

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Using polymer, as opposed to a liquid catalyst of the sort used in more traditional car batteries, allows for a gradual discharge of energy, thereby optimizing battery efficiency.

People take pictures of a high - efficiency petrol - burning concept car as it is unveiled by Royal Dutch Shell during a ceremony in Beijing on April 22, 2016.

In the process, the new car has gained much agility and efficiency.

On the consumer side, the drive toward clean cars would be accelerated by a powerful efficiency incentive called feebates, which is getting traction in Canada.

To improve production efficiencies, Tesla in reality built 60 kWh versions of the car and software limited it to 40kWh.

In addition to having a consumer - car - like driving experience, Tesla Semi's four drivetrains is designed with efficiency in mind and acts as a redundant systeIn addition to having a consumer - car - like driving experience, Tesla Semi's four drivetrains is designed with efficiency in mind and acts as a redundant systein mind and acts as a redundant system.

When I ask him what would happen if gasoline cars simply continued to improve in efficiency, he says, «I think people should be a lot more worried than they are,» explaining that even if carbon dioxide levels remain what they are today, we won't feel the ill effects until at least 2035.

In a utopian world, Canadian auto workers would get huge raises, governments would lavish money on the industry, and cars would drive themselves as they met fuel efficiency and emissions standards effortlessly.

In an interview with CNBC, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration will make an announcement on fuel efficiency standards for cars «very soon,» stressing that he and President Donald Trump believe current standards were rushed through.

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.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and truckEfficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and truckefficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025.

Reality: Even automobile engines don't work this simply — the efficiency you get from your car depends on the temperature outside, the length of your drive, the type of traffic you're driving it in, and many other factors besides how fast and far you're driving it.

They advertised that their «cars of character, reliability, and efficiency» were «in use in almost every civilized country», including Canad

In terms of efficiency, it's compatible with Graco infant car seat, has a quick fold system, and comes with other stroller accessories such as parent - child trays.

When out of the car, the Cloud Q can recline even further by extending the head and leg rests to create a comfier position for baby.The Telescopic Linear Side Impact Protection system is easily adjusted and retracted to ensure optimum efficiency in the event of a side collision.

Nevertheless, more than half of the car seats tend to be misused in a manner that could lessen their efficiency.

His administration delivered the strongest increases in fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars in decades with promises to cut carbon emissions by 6 billion metric tons by 2025.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

Even a 10 per cent loss in overall efficiency could make electric cars the less environmentally attractive option.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

Federal law requires that new cars be sold with a label that includes the vehicle's fuel efficiency as measured in miles per gallon.

Fiat Auto has sold one million cars equipped with the Blue & Me (a voice - activated in - car Bluetooth system that uses the Windows Mobile operating system) and EcoDrive, an app for collecting vehicle efficiency info that runs on the Microsoft Auto in - car operating system.

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.

In situations where consumers must average ratio information, such as comparing the fuel efficiency of two cars using the ratio miles per gallon, they often flub the numbers by incorrectly assuming the mathematic equation to find miles per gallon would be to average the sum of the mileage of both cars and then divide by two, instead of using a more complex equation needed to accurately compare ratios.

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.

(The admirable original bill is designed to increase fuel efficiency in cars and light trucks, encourage production of biofuels, and provide funds to develop technology that will capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.)

«New type of smart windows use liquid to switch from clear to reflective: Easy - to - manufacture switchable windows could improve energy efficiency in buildings and help keep cars cool.»

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

Instead, his administration has focused on increasing energy efficiency and investments in non-polluting renewables and clean cars.

«If we started importing cars instead of producing them domestically, there may be a drop in country - wide emissions, but the consumption emissions may stay the same — or even increase, depending on the production efficiency,» Ivanova said.

In buying a car, do you prefer performance, or comfort, or fuel efficiency?»

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

He stresses that energy efficiency and greater production of electricity from renewables is the key to reducing the environmental impact of electric cars in the operational phase, globally.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Factors that nobody used to care about (hormones in milk, fuel efficiency in cars) have become important marketing points.

Kornbluh reports that automakers are interested in these mechanisms as replacements for the many small electric motors found in cars, such as in motorized seat - position controls and in the valve controls of high - efficiency camless engines.

If this level of efficiency is possible to achieve in a fuel cell, the amount of required platinum would be comparable to what is used in an ordinary car catalytic converter.

Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid power trains and even fuel - cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.

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.

But because it takes at least four years for a car model to go from the design lab to market, there is a lag in greater efficiency.

Vortex rings present issues in fields such as engineering as they can hamper fluid flow, and, for example, increase the fuel consumption of a car by reducing its aerodynamic efficiency.

Ford, the second largest U.S. automaker, showed off its Fusion Energi plug - in hybrid and promised to start production of a new Focus EV that it expects to be «the first five - passenger, all - electric car to achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel efficiency rating.»

Realizing such a major emissions cut would require further efficiency improvements in fuel consumption and, especially, the promotion of public transport in cities, alongside a large - scale shift to electric cars.

I thought I was a great packer, sitting in the car / plane all smug in my efficiency, but then I would get out of the shower, and need to sit in a group to discuss plans for the evening and would have to do so in my pj's or fancy maxi dress.

At the outset of the film, in the early 1950s, Kroc is pitching high efficiency milk - shake machines to owners of drive - in restaurants, you know, the kind where the waitresses on roller - skates serve fries, ribs and shakes through the car windows of teenagers.

His style is closer to The French Connection than to the unreal spectacles of modern special effects thrillers, bringing a visceral immediacy to every scene and putting the audience in the front seat of every car chase and collision, while his narrative efficiency is stunning and his overdrive pacing never misses a beat.

The iconic race which is now in its 30th year, will see students from all over Europe battling it out for the title of hyper - efficiency — seeing which team can travel furthest on a single litre of fuel in self - designed and self - built «cars of the future».

In short, you'd have some important information, but not enough to keep your car running at peak efficiency.

These blades also play a part in the new car's improved efficiency, helping to direct air to the intercoolers and improve performance.