Sentences with phrase «in fuel 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.

The system provides a gain in fuel efficiency of up to 1 mpg.

Other symptoms include harsh shifting or failure to shift by the transmission, as well as a reduction in the fuel efficiency of the vehicle.

This can lead to a drop in fuel efficiency as well as slow acceleration and the car not having enough power.

The new rules will be phased in starting in 2012 and require a roughly 5 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions, along with a boost in fuel efficiency every year thereafter.

The gasoline engine also plays a role in fuel efficiency.

You may want the RAV4 Hybrid for its significant advantage in fuel efficiency.

In particular, this includes the gradual move from highly energy intensive modes of transport to less intensive ones, and improvement in fuel efficiency in all transport sectors.

Even if these plug - in hybrids weigh in over 5,000 lbs, there should still be a substantial increase in fuel efficiency compared to the standard car.

This technology delivers up to a 7.5 % improvement in fuel efficiency while enhancing performance.

«More importantly, the difference in fuel efficiency between a sedan and an SUV has contracted over the past 10 years,» and likely about even for most people's fuel budget.

That weight loss should pay dividends in the fuel efficiency department.

The automatic gearbox results in a steep dive in the fuel efficiency figures though, as our test car returned around 9 km / l under mixed driving conditions.

This improvement will be realized in fuel efficiency and a quieter ride at higher speeds.

This can lead to a lack of power as well as a big decline in fuel efficiency.

That is, of course, if the utmost in fuel efficiency is not a concern to you.

No automaker can pull a 33 % jump in fuel efficiency out of the ether.

This helps it to produce immense power without compromise in its fuel efficiency.

Add in the fuel efficiency of a hybrid and you have a sedan with lots to offer.

He referred to nine speeds as the «natural limit» because going beyond that number adds weight and complexity that can not be offset by gains in fuel efficiency.

We should have seen a slow and steady increase in fuel efficiency in the last hundred years, but that just hasn't happened, and I don't understand it.

It also took account of the way in which air transport markets mature and assumed that significant improvements in fuel efficiencies would be achieved.

Poor gas mileage, especially a sudden drop in fuel efficiency, can be blamed on a number of issues.

The advantages in fuel efficiency, power, torque and emission control are more significant.

It's applied, among other things, to fuel delivery and the forward cooling fan — adding 0.4 % in fuel efficiency while increasing fuel pump and fan life.

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 the answer.

2019 Ram 1500 delivers significant gains in fuel efficiency with eTorque mild hybrid system on second generation 3.6 - liter Pentastar V - 6 and legendary 5.7 - liter HEMI ® V - 8 engines — widest use of mild hybrid technology in the segment

With these new features in place, the 2013 Accord Coupe Concept is expected to lead its class in fuel efficiency.

The specific assumptions underlying ACEEE's earlier estimates of job gains will inevitably differ somewhat from how things unfold — and in particular gasoline price projections have come down since then — but the impressive growth of the auto industry during the recent years of brisk advances in fuel efficiency technology is certainly consistent with the fundamentals of our analysis.

In the Oak Ridge study, letting tires run low on air resulted in a decrease in fuel efficiency of up to 10 %.

This added feature also aids in fuel efficiency because the power steering doesn't draw any energy when driving straight.

Electric systems have an advantage in fuel efficiency because there is no belt - driven hydraulic pump constantly running, whether assistance is required or not, and this is a major reason for their introduction.

The bigger engine improves driveability and makes it better to use in everyday conditions, while (at least on paper) causing no real reduction in fuel efficiency.

You always want a bit of reserve to be able to accelerate past / through hazards, and I would think that the safety factor would outweigh a marginal gain in fuel efficiency for an urban or suburban driver's typical trip.

RIZZO: You can lose almost 25 percent in fuel efficiency by the way you drive.

Otherwise, if I'm buying an Altima for innocuous, comfortable commutes, why wouldn't I go for the four - cylinder, with its significant bump in fuel efficiency?»

Jeep Fuel Economy Challenge Fuel economy enthusiasts John and Helen Taylor recently drove a standard Jeep Compass and Patriot from London to Berlin on single tanks of fuel and then kept going, setting a new standard in fuel efficiency among SUVs.

GM believes the engine will help it lead in fuel efficiency against Ford's aluminum - body F - 150 with V - 6 EcoBoost engines and a redesigned Ram 1500 with a mild hybrid system.

The engine, GM believes, will help it lead in fuel efficiency against Ford's aluminum - bodied F - 150 with V - 6 Ecoboost engines and a redesigned Ram 1500 with a mild hybrid system.

Herrick and GM later walked back the comments, clarifying that the GM pickup lineup will be «very competitive in fuel efficiency,» noting EPA testing is not yet complete.

With an excellent mileage of 27.39 kmpl in diesel and 21.4 kmpl in petrol version, the Baleno clearly prods ahead of its rivals in the fuel efficiency department just like it does in the other aspects.

The 2013 Dodge Dart features next - generation electric dual - pinion steering, which delivers sporty handling by managing significant loads at all steering wheel operating speeds, power assist curves modulated according to driving conditions and up to a 3 % improvement in fuel efficiency when compared with a conventional hydraulic system.

I fully support California, the largest auto market in the country, to use that authority to retain the achievements being made that will likely result in fuel efficiency of more than 50 mpg by 2025.»

My only real complaint about the vehicle was relatively poor gas mileage compared to our prior vehicle, but minivans tend to be lacking in fuel efficiency.

Both powertrains surpass the previous - generation models in fuel efficiency.

In our fuel efficiency tests it returned a very impressive 19.19 kmpl on the highway thanks to the tall gearing but in the city, where you need to make more gear changes to keep the engine in the sweet spot, that figure drops down to 13.5 kmpl, which is still a reasonable figure for a petrol engine.