Sentences with phrase «mile per gallon fuel»

Surprisingly, despite all of this power, the unit is also capable of delivering a 33 mile per gallon fuel efficiency.

It makes you wonder as all manufacturers struggle to contend with the U.S. government's 2025, 54.5 mile per gallon fuel economy target, how a manufacturer like Land Rover can continue to offer vehicles like this.

Despite these astonishing specs, drivers can still expect around a 17 city / 24 highway mile per gallon fuel efficiency.

When it comes to the 56.2 mile per gallon fuel economy standard being floated by the Obama Administration, Pedro Fernandez points out the most obvious fact.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

We must mention that in some test the Hybrid could achieve up to 34 miles per gallon fuel economy through city travel.

Commercials for the CRX claimed it could reach 60 miles per gallon fuel economy; according to Horowitz's test, it bested that figure, reaching 65 miles per gallon, and passed the test.

This peppy little engine still offers an impressive 123 - horsepower and 125 pound - feet of torque, but the headliner is the 31 city / 43 highway miles per gallon fuel economy estimate.

We need to go to 50 miles per gallon fuel efficiency.

Not exact matches

In 2011, Obama announced an agreement with automakers to raise fuel efficiency standards to 54.5 miles per gallon.

Hyundai announced Monday that it would adjust the cars» reported fuel economy by 1 to 2 miles per gallon.

In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia models from the 2011 to 2013 model years.

In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new fuel economy standards intended to compel manufacturers to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon across their car and light truck models by 2016.

Standard buses today get about 2 - 4 miles per gallon, but Proterra says its buses get more than 20 miles per gallon, allegedly saving transit operators about $ 50,000 of fuel per year.

Adjusting for a shift in consumer demand to larger vehicles, the current rules are projected to hike fuel efficiency to a fleetwide average of 46.8 miles per gallon by 2026, according to a letter sent Tuesday by Senator Tom Carper to Pruitt and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

They require automakers to double fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

The Obama rules adopted in 2012 sought to double average fleet - wide vehicle fuel efficiency to about 50 miles (80 km) per gallon by 2025, but included an evaluation due by April 2018 to determine if the rules were appropriate.

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Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the average fuel economy of new, light vehicles (a designation that includes cars, SUVs, vans and pickup trucks) had reached 25.4 miles per gallon, as compared to 20.8 mpg in 2007.

Integrating fuel cards into the fleet tracking systems helps fleet managers track miles per gallon, reduce fuel costs and determine non-compliance of fuel card usage.

In the same way that higher grade fuel gives more miles per gallon, the newer films will wrap more pallets — which significantly reduces the cost per pallet wrapped.»

And we have increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.

The data shows that the beverage industry has the largest fleet of fuel - efficient heavy - duty hybrid commercial vehicles in North America, and has increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) industry - wide by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.

The efficiency tweaks are part of an effort by automakers to comply with federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) rules that now require that the U.S. car fleet meet fuel economy standards of 35 miles per gallon (15 kilometers per liter) by 2016.

The competition's overarching goal was to find a reasonably priced car with a fuel efficiency of at least 100 miles per US gallon equivalent (mpge)-- or 100 kilometres per 2.35 litres.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

In the United States, the Obama administration plans to implement rules that push corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards to a fleetwide average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years ahead of the schedule Congress laid out in a 2007 energy law.

Next Steps The Obama administration recently announced fuel economy standards that require the average new vehicle to go from 32.9 miles per gallon today to 35.5 mpg by 2016 and 54.5 mpg by 2025.

A typical ion engine provides 10 times the specific impulse of a conventional solid - fuel booster (specific impulse can be thought of as a spaceship's miles - per - gallon rating).

Consumer tip - of - the - day: increasing efficiency of fuel economy on a miles - per - gallon scale is not linear, as more miles - per - gallon (mpg) are initially better for your wallet and the planet than you might expect, and eventually trail off with diminishing returns.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

GM's fuel cell SUV, Sequel, operates with an energy efficiency equivalent to 39 miles per gallon of gasoline.

«This is a victory for drivers who, by 2016, will get 35 miles per gallon, spend less on fuel and send less of their dollars overseas,» Jackson said, although the new rules still leave the U.S. behind Europe, Japan and China in terms of the timing or strength of fuel efficiency standards.

Federal law requires that new cars be sold with a label that includes the vehicle's fuel efficiency as measured in miles per gallon.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

In situations where consumers must average ratio information, such as comparing the fuel efficiency of two cars using the ratio miles per gallon, they often flub the numbers by incorrectly assuming the mathematic equation to find miles per gallon would be to average the sum of the mileage of both cars and then divide by two, instead of using a more complex equation needed to accurately compare ratios.

«If we optimistically assume the average U.S. fuel economy is 25 miles per gallon, at $ 3.00 gasoline this equates to 75 cents a gallon for equivalent electricity.»

We've figured out a cost - effective way to do that so you can end up with a 66 - mile - per - gallon uncompromised SUV that has half the normal weight, has a third the normal fuel use, is safer, and repays the extra cost that comes with being a hybrid in less than two years.

If you then combine that with E85 fuel, which is 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol, you just got a 320 - mile - per - gallon SUV because the efficiency times the biofuel saving of oil multiplies.

The Clarity's fuel efficiency equivalent of 68 miles per gallon clobbers even the feel - good 48 mpg of the Toyota Prius, and the car can go 270 miles on a $ 20 tank.

Regulators have set a tentative goal of increasing fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light trucks by the 2025 model year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could strengthen fuel economy standards beyond its move last week, which lifted so - called CAFE standards to roughly 36 miles per gallon by 2016.

He also wants to put a million 150 - mile -(240 - kilometer --RRB- per - gallon plug - in hybrids on the road by 2015 and plans to raise fuel economy standards by 4 percent each year.

The average fuel economy of vehicles sold in the United States hit a record high 23.6 miles per gallon (mpg) for the model year 2012, the U.S.

«The point is you don't have to choose between beautiful, safe, affordable» or something that «oh by the way, gets 100 miles per gallon of fuel equivalent.»

One kilometre in a conventional car with a fuel consumption of 9 litres per 100 kilometres (26 miles per US gallon), with gasoline at $ 3.60 per gallon, costs more than 8 cents.

Compared with a typical, 30 - mile - per - gallon automobile, the Volt will save these motorists about 500 gallons of fuel a year, which also will result in a substantial cut in annual carbon dioxide emissions which are associated with climate change.

At the same time, fuel economy rose to an all - time high of 24.8 miles per gallon average.

In 2011, Obama announced agreement with major automakers to raise fuel efficiency standards to 54.5 miles per gallon.