Sentences with phrase «means less fuel»

That means less fuel consumption and less noise in the cabin.
That means less fuel is consumed and lower emissions generated, including a 25 - percent drop in cold - start hydrocarbon emissions.
With the new weight - saving techniques, the new Range Rover Sport has a huge advantage over competitors, not because we don't like big cars, but because less weight means less fuel consumption.
Driverless trucks will also be cheaper, as the smoother run will mean less fuel will be needed and the trucks can drive directly behind one another to minimize wind resistance.
Last year, All Nippon Airlines asked passengers to use the lavatories before they board flights so as to reduce the overall weight of the plane, which would ultimately be better for the environment as it would mean less fuel usage.

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But a thinner atmosphere means less drag on the aircraft, so the engines can hit high speeds with less fuel.
In addition, lower fuel prices and lower tax on fuel in Alberta means consumers have less incentive to purchase smaller or alternate - fuel vehicles, he says.
Less seat means lighter weight loads, and that means fuel savings for airlines.
The jet would weigh less than your average airplane, meaning fuel and maintenance — and ultimately airfare — would decrease.
That would mean less money donated on Sunday to fuel this kind of completely vile and idiotic thinking.
But already we know that we can accomplish our purposes with far less energy than we now use and that other means of fueling cars and heating homes are being developed.
Yet so prone are we to care most about what is near at hand, the fear of atomic destruction is probably less keen in most minds than is the energy crisis which means less oil and gasoline available, less fuel for heating, and an abrupt change in American life - styles.
Increases in the price of fossil fuels since 1979 have meant that less has been burned and less carbon dioxide has been added to the atmosphere.
In addition to reducing the truck body's weight to save on fuel, the GuardianLT's high thermal performance also reduces fuel and electricity consumption without skimming on performance, which means the body helps maintain desired temperatures using less energy.
It provides the greatest cube efficiency, and its light weight allows a truckload to cube out before it weighs out — meaning that every available inch of space is optimally utilized, minimizing freight and handling costs with fewer trucks, less fuel, and lower emissions.
I didn't mean literally a Saturn rocket but most people know roughly what one is, I meant an expensive liquid fuelled rocket (for which the Saturn was an impressive example); which as you pointed out is never the less still wrong.
Turning to ethanol or biodiesel doesn't help much, given that those fuels from crops mean less food: hardly in keeping with the Thanksgiving tradition.
Plug - ins use about a third of the fuel that a standard hybrid does, which means that the cars themselves emit less carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
A downside of fuel cells, however, is that they have a capital cost in the thousands of dollars per kilowatt of capacity, and the round - trip efficiency through the electrolyzer to the fuel cell and then back into current is less than 50 percent — meaning that for every two kilowatt - hours put in the bank, only one comes back out again.
Take a desert ecosystem — hotter weather will make cactuses and other desert plants lose water, which will mean fewer cactuses for the deserts and less fuel for a fire to burn.
In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.
«This means that the generator has many sweet spots,» says McDonald, who likens the concept to a car engine that saves fuel by shutting down cylinders when the driver demands less power.
That means the fuel gain at NIF represents less than 1 per cent of the total energy entering the system.
But turning corn into fuel means less food to go around.
But because a fault system can only release as much energy as is built up by grinding tectonic plates, increasing the frequency of large events means there will be less energy to fuel smaller quakes.
The fast twitch muscle fibres engaged during fast lifts are less energy efficient than their slower cousins, meaning they chew through more fuel, according to Ball State University researchers.
As temperatures rise, some of that fuel goes to power your cooling (sweat) system, which means that there is relatively less fuel left for your legs.
When people talk about being more Insulin sensitive, that means you need less Insulin to fit into the receptor site to pull that Glucose into the cell to utilize it for fuel or store as fat — one of the two, right?
Losing weight during perimenopause, or even maintaining your current weight, means you have to take in less fuel.
So, fewer carbs = less glucose in your system, which means your body will have to start burning fat as your fuel source.
They are also metabolised and used as fuel much faster because they are absorbed and sent to the liver, this means that they are less likely to be stored as body fat.
That means your body is smart — it's lived this long and it wants to survive, so in order to do that it slows down your metabolism so you require less fuel.
In preparation for the 2016 WEC season, tightened restrictions on the amount of fuel the teams can burn has meant that the V4's output has officially dropped from «more than» 500bhp to «less than» 500bhp.
More car for less weight is the key innovation, with all that means for pace and fuel efficiency.
This means that you can use less fuel to operate the vehicle and allows the manufacturer to advertise a better fuel economy for the vehicle.
On the other hand, this means the crankshaft has to operate under less than ideal conditions: instead of being coddled ‡ with a good supply of freshly - filtered oil, specially chosen for that purpose, it has to make do with the little bit of oil mixed into the fuel.
Without them, fuel injection management is essentially flying blind and has to resort to other less - desirable means to determine how much air and fuel need to be mixed.
In non-engineering speak, this means that the new polymers Goodyear developed help the Fuel Max roll more easily and with less heat (cased by the constant flexing of the tire as it rolls).
It means a cut of around # 3.5 k over the previous, V8 - endowed S4 which had less torque, slower accelaration and was far heavier on emissions and fuel consumption.
That means the engine produces more power and uses less fuel, while wasting less heat.
Purchasing 91 octane fuel (where offered) simply means that more fuel of higher octane is blended with commensurately less fuel of lower octane, than when purchasing a lower grade.
It can also mean there is less fuel than usual such as a weak fuel pressure, dirty fuel injectors, bad O2 giving computer a bad reading so fuel is lessened, bad engine coolant temperature sensor giving computer a hot reading so fuel is lessened.
The V6 is more than adequate; in fact, I could have made do with a little less power, or different gearing, if it meant improved fuel economy.
Achieving the best fuel mileage in your vehicle may mean being a little less comfortable for a few minutes when you start driving.
While this engine is by no means one of the more powerful ones on the market, it does exactly what it promises — gets you to your destination using less energy, and therefore less fuel.
Power and fuel efficiency place the MAZDA6 near the top of the class, while its base price of just over $ 22,000 means it is less expensive than the Honda Accord, Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry, Ford Fusion and Chevrolet Malibu.
And this being a member of the four - model Prius family, there's some fuel - saving function to that new form; it boast a slippery 0.28 coefficient of drag, meaning less wind resistance.
This means that despite a higher level of engine and driving performance, all four models consume significantly less fuel than the previous models; total savings for individual versions are as much as 16 per cent.
Corvette Racing engineers expect a 3 percent gain in fuel economy over the C6.R which could mean one less pit stop over the course of 24 Hours — a potentially huge advantage.
The fuel consumption for the all wheel drive Q7 will be of only 1.7 l / 100 km (138.4 mpg), which means an equivalent of less than 50 g / km of CO2 (80,5 g / mi).
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