Sentences with phrase «increased use of vehicles»

Obama noted that there has been progress in the transportation sector, including the increased use of vehicles that are powered by biofuels and natural gas, as well as the auto industry's more efficient production methods involving traditional engines.

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But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

Although lead - acid batteries will continue to account for more than 62 percent of secondary battery demand in 2015, sales of lithiumbased rechargeable batteries, which are widely used in both portable devices and hybrid vehicles, will record the strongest increases.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

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As much as this shift might decrease the number of total cars in use, it would increase the miles driven for each vehicle, which would lead to more wear and tear and quicker turnover.

It will increase the price of any and all goods that use steel and aluminum — Air Force planes, Navy ships, and Army vehicles — meaning that the Pentagon's budget will buy fewer of them.

An additional slip lane, turning lane and lighting facilities were built at the State Highway 1 intersection linking the facility in order to cater to the increase in frequency and size of vehicles using the highway.

Although the increased use of seat belts and car seats means the number of motor vehicle injuries and deaths has declined, millions of crashes still occur on U.S. roads every year.

In our Medela 9 volt vehicle breast pump lighter adapter review we found that use of the vehicle lighter connector marginally increases the pumping velocity of your breast pump.

Wednesday Questions — Latest assessment of the success of government economic policie; uninsured vehicles in regular use on UK roads; addressing the increase in elephant poaching and the illegal sale of ivory to the Far East.

Increasing use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Once regulatory hurdles for the use of autonomous air vehicles are cleared, UAS developments could give logistics companies the opportunity to move freight away from central hubs to dispersed regional airfields and change how we transport goods by air.

MASLOC, it has been argued, could have prevented increasing government's liability by going to purchase the vehicles directly from the dealers of Fiat Cars in Ghana, rather than using a third party; Dextro Impex to purchase the 6 - year old cars.

«These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions.»

See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bIM-PRESS%2b20111205IPR33211%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN Following that vote, the man responsible for steering the legislation through Parliament, motorcycling Dutch MEP and IMCO Rapporteur Wim van de Camp, said that «These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions» adding that «riding a motorbike has now become greener and safer.»

Aftermath of increasing incidents of high profile abductions and the subsequent demands for huge ransom by kidnappers in the country, many lawmakers have decided to stop the use of their official vehicles and number plates for fear of being identified and abducted.

The New York Insurance Association, a trade group that represents property and casualty insurance industry, opposed Cahill's bill because it would «needlessly increase mandatory minimum limits of liability and fails to preserve the legal distinction between using a vehicle for personal uses and for ride - sharing services, which will result in greatly increased costs for all New York auto insurance consumers.»

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

The move is designed to increase the use of zero - emissions vehicles, or ZEVs: plug - in electrics, hybrid plug - ins and hydrogen fuel cell cars.

The results showed that the driver's chance of survival was increased by driving a vehicle with a higher mass, driving a newer vehicle, being younger, being a male, using a seatbelt and having the airbag deployed in the crash.

The number of products — including sunscreens, paints, vitamins, food additives, electronics, vehicles and appliances — that use nanomaterials has increased almost 380 percent since 2006, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a Washington, D.C. - based non-profit group that tracks nanotechnology.

The recent growth is driven, experts say, by aging populations and increased life expectancy in the developed world; combination products that couple a medical device with a drug, the device usually acting as a drug - delivery vehicle; miniaturization (via nanotechnology), making medical devices less invasive; and the use of molecular diagnostics to customize therapeutic regimens and to assess individual disease risk.

But he suggests that the compound likely has negative effects on young, developing brains — and that there is an increased risk of motor vehicle crashes with marijuana, particularly when it's used in combination with alcohol.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

In these Mohsen Esmaily reports results that may increase the use of magnesium alloys and aluminium alloys in vehicles.

Since the 1980s, the use of nitrogen fertilizers and the number of livestock have doubled, whereas coal consumption has increased more than 3-fold and the number of motor vehicles more than 20-fold.

«The idea of automated car - sharing vehicle or a ride - sharing service, when you increase the occupancy of a vehicle, the emissions and fuel use overall are going to be split over those individuals, hence they are going to be lower,» said Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on car - sharing.

The committee reports «substantial evidence» linking early marijuana use with substance abuse later in life and suggesting that cannabis increases the likelihood of respiratory problems, motor vehicle accidents, and low birth weight in infants born to pot - smoking mothers.

The least popular option for increased security was the use of unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles, or drones (23 percent).

This novel, space - saving design allows the use of bigger batteries, which can increase the range of electric vehicles by an additional 15 to 20 per cent.

For example, planners could adopt incentives to shorten the length of trips, encourage the use of public and non-motorized transit, and increase the adoption of lower emitting vehicle technologies.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

An additional grant of $ 2.6 million was awarded by the US Air Force, demonstrating that increasing the cabin pressure in airplanes during air - evacuation of trauma patients to a level greater than what is currently used improves outcomes following exposure of rats to TBI caused by under - vehicle explosions, as published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

(5) reduction in transportation sector emissions through increased transportation system and vehicle efficiency or use of transportation fuels that have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions that are substantially lower than those attributable to fossil fuel - based alternatives;

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

For that purpose, 21 - to 23 - month - old mice were treated with daily injections of either recombinant GDF11 (rGDF11, 0.1 mg / kg mouse body weight), a dosing regimen that increases GDF11 levels in old mice toward youthful levels (13), or phosphate - buffered saline (PBS)(vehicle) for 4 weeks, and their blood vessels were subsequently analyzed by using the volumetric assay described above.

The better they knew the vehicles currently in stock, the more quickly they could meet the needs of their used car buyer, therefore increasing their sales.

Michelle: It's really interesting, seeing what can happen when you use gaming as a vehicle instead of just as looking at gaming for an increase in test scores for a certain content level.

But while it makes sense to use engine braking for safety reasons, it doesn't necessarily make sense to do so for purely financial reasons considering the increased costs and transfer of ear and tear to the engine, transmission, u-joins, and other components involved in powering the vehicle.

These features include the newest iteration of BMW's Active Cruise Control, which can work between 19 and 130 mph, Active Lane Departure Warning, which helps support «necessary evasive steering,» and a new function called Evasion Aid, which operates at speeds up to 100 mph and improves steering response, increases vehicle stability, and uses the car's sensors to make sure the driver has an unobstructed space to get into to evade a crash.

An increasing number of break - downs and non-starts are being blamed on bio clogging fuel filters on vehicles using these fuels, made worse in colder weather.

Driving through snow of any thickness is increasing the rolling resistance of the vehicle, meaning you will need to use more engine power just to maintain your speed.

As battery technology continues advancing with increased use of electric vehicles, overall costs of BEVs and their batteries are projected to decrease over time.

NHTSA is taking this action to improve the safety of passenger vehicle occupants by increasing seat belt use rates, particularly in rear seats.

Recommendation: To improve management and administration of agency programs, the heads of the federal agencies participating in transit benefit programs should develop plans to measure and evaluate the effect of agencies» transit benefit programs on employees» commuting behavior, including increased transit use and changes in vehicle occupancy, and provide this information to the appropriate state and metropolitan planning organizations.

In fact, you will increase the life of your brakes by a few months (or even years, depending on how much steep downhill driving you do) if you simply use engine braking whenever possible — rather than actually pressing the brake pedal to slow your vehicle.

This NPRM proposes rulemaking on these and other requirements to increase the correct use of child restraint anchorage systems and tether anchorages, and the correct use of child restraints, with the ultimate goal of reducing injuries to restrained children in motor vehicle crashes.

Improved designs and the increased number of gears used in automatic transmissions have contributed to the improved fuel economy of vehicles fitted with automatic transmissions.

Launched at the 2008 SEMA Show, the goal of the Dealer Day program is to help new and used car dealers discover workable solutions to dramatically increase sales and profits through vehicle accessorization and tap into the $ 31.9 billion vehicle accessory market.