Sentences with phrase «in vehicle efficiency»

Because of improvements in vehicle efficiency, car owners can afford to drive more miles per year.

For example, rooftop solar can now provide electricity to businesses and households at a lower cost than fossil fuels and improvements in vehicle efficiency can easily pay for themselves.

Utilize the grid power to run the heat or A / C before going to the vehicle, so there is no decrease in vehicle efficiency or range.

The transportation study shows how a combination of electrification and increase in vehicle efficiency could significantly lower emissions from this sector.

One of the most important is the sudden surge in vehicle efficiency; new CAFE standards pushed by the Obama administration will increase the combined fuel efficiency of cars and light duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

As of 2013, US greenhouse gas emissions had fallen just 8.5 percent below 2005 levels, a drop that largely happened due to the recession, to a natural gas boom that pushed out dirtier coal power, and to a rise in vehicle efficiency.

The clutch-less and synchronizer-less eDCT uses the principles of dual clutch transmissions (DCTs) to provide seamless shifting and up to a 15 % improvement in vehicle efficiency.

BP expects the number of passenger cars to increase substantially by 2040, with an increasing number of electric cars and a major improvement in vehicle efficiency.

He suggested that people would spend the money that they saved by having more efficient houses on having bigger houses, or that improvements in vehicle efficiency would lead to more driving, or even that improvements in refrigerator efficiency would lead to larger fridges.