Sentences with phrase «less vehicle emissions»

By utilizing only hybrid gas - electric vehicles our cars produce less vehicle emissions.

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In a statement, transport minister Paul Maynard said it could help make vehicles more energy - efficient and save costs: «Advances such as lorry platooning could benefit businesses through cheaper fuel bills and other road users thanks to lower emissions and less congestion.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

«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.»

Measuring how and where emissions occur can support carbon - cutting initiatives like eco-lanes that prioritize alternative fuel vehicles and eco-driving practices, or encourage system operators to optimize traffic signals for greater throughput and less fuel consumption.

In theory, if a city or region has policies that encourage biking instead of driving, the researchers should be able to see the change in consumption patterns, with less car fuel consumed and fewer vehicles overall and a drop in consumption - based transport emissions, she said.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

Transportation emissions in China, which recently became the largest vehicle market in the world, are expected to mushroom in the coming decades, from less than 200 megatons of CO2 annually today to nearly 1,200 megatons of CO2 in 2050.

According to Epple, «We are leaving no stone unturned to ensure Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle emit significantly less emissions in the future.»

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

Natural gas vehicles have been found to produce less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline vehicles, but very little natural gas consumption is currently used for transportation fuel.

Critical Knowledge: Rear - wheel - drive, 2 - passenger concept version of a plug - in all - electric sports car Chrysler intends to buildZero tailpipe emissions and 200 - mile maximum driving range before recharging from either a 110 - volt or a 220 - volt household appliance power outletDistinctive aerodynamic design with long, low hood and Dodge crosshair grille «Tangoreen» colored exterior with EV graphicsChrysler's ENVI Electric - Vehicle Engineering Group says it has designed a drivetrain that will deliver a 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of less than 5 seconds with a top speed of more than 120

The Leaf is an electric vehicle that boasts serious amenities in addition to zero tailpipe emissions and a «fueling» cost of less than $ 700 a year.

New Volvo vehicles come equipped with powerful, compact, and efficient Drive - E engines that cost less, generate loads of horsepower, and reduce engine emissions by up to 30 %!

A new PZEV (Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) 3.2 - liter six - cylinder engine is offered, touting lower emissions but also 10 less horsepower than the non-PZEV 3.2 - liteEmissions Vehicle) 3.2 - liter six - cylinder engine is offered, touting lower emissions but also 10 less horsepower than the non-PZEV 3.2 - liteemissions but also 10 less horsepower than the non-PZEV 3.2 - liter engine.

The direct injection engines in the LaCrosse create more power with less fuel and reduce vehicle emissions through greater combustion control — particularly cold - start emissions that are reduced by up to 25 percent.

Volkswagen says the Nils represents «micromobility,» a bare - essentials (and zero - emission) form of vehicle, aimed specifically at commuters who travel 15 miles or less to and from work.

PW PL CC Security System Key Less Entry 8 passenger stow away seating for cargo hauling AM / FM CD Cassette ~ tilt wheel ~ driver power seat Trailer Tow Package Clean Title just passed emissions for 2 years 142000 Box A on the miles Very clean Vehicle $ 3995

Ford is billing the «Scrappage Scheme» as a way to lessen CO2 emissions by wooing drivers out of old, less - efficient automobiles, but that it's apparently open to the owners of vehicles from any make ought to translate to plenty of conquest sales, too.

The company is claiming a partial zero - emissions vehicle fuel efficiency equivalent of over 100mpg — less than 2.4 L / 100 km.

Although GDI vehicles offer the potential of improved fuel economy, less fuel pumping, and charge air cooling, they tend to produce higher particulate matter (PM) emissions when compared with the traditional port fuel injection engines.

Torxe cat - back performance exhaust systems and axle - back performance exhaust systems have less restrictive, freer flowing mufflers and pipes that will let your engine breathe better for increased horsepower, while your vehicle stays emissions legal.

~ 13 times less than land use changes (3.4 gigatons) ~ 11.5 times less than light - duty vehicles (3.0 gigatons) ~ 5.3 times less than concrete production (1.4 gigatons) ~ 2 dozen 1000 MW coal - fired power plants (2 % of the world's coal - fired electrical generation) Or, roughly the same CO2 emissions as Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Poland or South Africa.

If EPA had, beginning in 1990, exercised the authority it got under the Clean Air Act to regulate mobile sources (vehicles) of the emission of highly carcinogenic aromatics (benzene, toluene, xylene) then OPEC's founding a decade earlier would have had far less consequence.

But much higher levels of efficiency, i.e., more modest and less powerful vehicles, are needed if we want to see CO2 emissions and oil use below present levels, particularly in view of Waxman - Markey.

He said, however, that liquid biofuels can and should play a central role in reducing the transportation sector's petroleum dependence, alongside programs to reduce vehicle sizes, charge for carbon emissions, and encourage lifestyles requiring less personal mobility.

2) Every new generation of vehicle is more energy efficient and produces less emissions than the prior generation.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

Cities are major contributors to climate change: although they cover less than 2 per cent of the earth's surface, cities consume 78 per cent of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of all carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other greenhouse gas emissions, mainly through energy generation, vehicles, industry, and biomass use.

An electric vehicle (EV) emits less than half of the CO2 of a conventional vehicle, and EVs will produce even fewer emissions as technology improves and more electricity is produced by renewables.

When paired with renewable power, electric vehicles present an emissions - free alternative; however, today, EVs represent less than 0.1 % of vehicles on the road.

With fewer carbon emissions, zero air pollution and less noise, electric vehicles don't just pay off for the environment — they also pay off for you.

Then again, to the extent that natural gas substitutes for coal in electricity generation (and fugitive methane emissions are low) and electric vehicles powered by relatively clean electricity substitute for gasoline and diesel, CO2 emissions over the next two decades could be far less than expected 10 years ago.

Which is why the car company's have been following the apparently insane tactic of selling smaller less polluting vehicles (cars) at a loss to meet thier fleet EPA emission targets.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

The new Lexus full hybrid targets class - leading emissions and also generates significantly less NOx and particulate emissions than an equivalent diesel engine vehicle, Toyota points out.

Alternative fueled vehicles are powered by natural gas, propane, ethanol, or electricity, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum fueled vehicles.

Clearly, both a switch to less polluting electricity combined with vehicle electrification would be needed to reduce the majority of environmental damages associated with emissions from transportation via electrification.

Odometer audits typically require 5 to 10 minutes, and less if performed with other vehicle servicing (tune ups, emission inspections, etc.), with an incremental cost of $ 5 to $ 10 (assuming chargeout rates of $ 60 per hour).

Odometer audits are significantly cheaper than vehicle emission inspections because they require less equipment and specialized training, can be performed in conjunction with other vehicle servicing, and can be provided by a large number of businesses in a competitive market.

From making the choice to drive a hybrid vehicle, which produces 97 percent less emissions than today's nationwide standard, to paying a visit to your local recycling center, Drivers Ed Direct promotes the philosophy of a cleaner, healthier environment.

Our driving school vehicles are extremely clean to operate, producing 97 percent less hydrocarbon and oxides of nitrogen emissions than vehicles that meet today's nationwide top emissions standard.

This fleet averages less than six months on the road and the vehicles undergo regular preventive maintenance and emission inspections.