Sentences with phrase «larger fuel savings»

So the potential for hybrid diesel vehicles is great — hybrid trucks and buses offer even larger fuel savings than hybrid cars, and can pay for themselves in a few years.

With such large fuel savings, we would expect consumers to demand fuel - saving technologies and manufacturers to adopt them.

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Behind Germany and ahead of some of the oil producers, it runs the largest current account surplus in the world, which means that it is exporting its excess savings in a world that has nowhere to put the money, and so the world must respond either with speculative asset bubbles, unproductive investment, debt - fueled consumption binges or unemployment.

The large - scale study, which incorporated data from more than 40,000 unique flights, found significant savings in carbon emissions and monetary costs when airline captains were provided with tailored monthly information on fuel efficiency, along with targets and individualized feedback.

If all American air conditioners also used the device, the savings in energy would equal the emissions from eight large power stations burning fossil fuels.

(source) Of course, actual fuel savings probably won't be as large for everybody as it is for me - it seems to help to live in a hilly area or drive a lot of stretches where it's downhill enough to maintain speed coasting but not with the transmission engaged, and it applies mostly to city driving - but it seems like there is still enough savings that it would more than pay for engineering time to developing an improved transmission program.

Our Limited came with the standard 3.5 - liter V6 which does an adequate job of moving this large vehicle along; an EcoBoost twin - turbo model is available as the Sport for those who want more, while a turbo I4 Explorer is also offered as an extra-cost option for fuel - savings.

3.5 - liter V6 tuned for responsive power Thanks to vehicle weight savings, the standard 3.5 - liter V6 with Ti - VCT offers a 5 percent improvement in power - to - weight ratio over the larger 3.7 - liter V6 in the 2014 F - 150, with better fuel efficiency and performance.

The large cost of these fuel surcharges is not reflected in the average point value, and tends to put a significant dent in the overall savings you make on rewards flights.

Playing devil's advocate, fuel margins are at historical highs due in large part to the declining oil price — as the oil price comes down these operators do not pass on the savings immediately which leads to over-earning on the fuel side.

LifeMiles also doesn't pass on fuel surcharges, which can result in large savings depending on your routing.

The large cost of these fuel surcharges is not reflected in the average point value, and tends to put a significant dent in the overall savings you make on rewards flights.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

The largest savings come from the industrial efficiency package, followed by ZNE new homes and buildings, vehicle fuel economy improvements, appliance and equipment efficiency, and home and commercial building retrofits.

And per MW of solar installed, the carbon savings and the fuel savings from a MW of utility - scale PV are 50 % larger.»

The main reason is that emerging economies like China currently use energy fairly inefficiently, partly as a result of national policies that have kept the prices of fossil fuels very low, and could thus achieve large energy savings at a modest cost.