Sentences with phrase «miles per gallon for»

Based on the time taken in the real world test, we calculated the charge rate for each device, so you can see a relative comparison per unit of battery capacity, kind of like miles per gallon for your car.

The fact is, if you are in a highway, driving 60mph instead of 70mph will save you 2 - 4 miles per gallon for the rest of your trip.

Washington, D.C. — The Department of Transportation today announced new fuel economy standards averaging 27.3 miles per gallon for model year 2011 cars and light trucks.

Of course my 2004 Civic hybrid with five - speed manual transmission averaged 50 + miles per gallon for 204,000 miles (It just dropped to 49.9 mpg.)

Plug - in Hybrid Fuel Economy: Fuel economy for plug - in hybrids is provided in miles per gallon for gasoline operation and miles per kilowatt - hour for electric operation.

In December 2007, Congress mandated an increase in fuel economy to 35 miles per gallon for all passenger vehicles by 2020: a change for the better, but clearly not where we need to be.

The Toyota Prius — a fast - selling mid-size hybrid car — gets an impressive 46 miles per gallon in combined city / highway driving, compared with 20 miles per gallon for the average new U.S. passenger vehicle.

5 Use 60 United MileagePlus award miles per gallon for $ 0.50 off per gallon on a maximum of 20 gallons (for a maximum of $ 10 off) per fuel purchase.

5 Use 60 United MileagePlus award miles per gallon for $ 0.50 off per gallon on a maximum of 20 gallons (for a maximum of $ 10 off) per fuel purchase.

Fuel economy for plug - in hybrids is provided in miles per gallon for gasoline operation and in miles per kilowatt - hour for electric operation.

The 2015 Ram 1500 offers best - in - class fuel economy in both the innovative 3.0 - liter EcoDiesel as well as the 3.6 - liter Pentastar gas engine, with up to 28 highway miles per gallon for the EcoDiesel and up to 25 highway for the gasoline model.

Federal law requires that every automaker's fuel economy average 27.5 miles per gallon for all domestic cars it sells in a year and, separately, for all imported cars.

This represents a gain of approximately two miles per gallon for all versions.

Mileage: About 23 miles per gallon for both the ES 250 and the LS 400.

The automatic - transmission Rio is EPA - estimated at 28 miles per gallon for city driving, 37 mpg highway and 32 mpg combined.

Fiat SpA's Chrysler Group LLC had the lowest with an average 20.6 miles per gallon for its fleet.

(Automobiles in the U.S., by contrast, currently need only to reach 27.5 miles a gallon by 2010, and even fewer miles per gallon for trucks and sport utility vehicles.

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.

Car dealerships boast about miles per gallon for both highway and city, providing buyers with an analysis relevant to different roadways.

The four - speed automatic has been replaced with a six - speed and despite the bigger engine and more power engineers were still able to get one more mile per gallon for all the models.

Not exact matches

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.

Ford «thought gas prices were going to go to $ 6 or $ 8 gallon, and therefore having a couple miles per gallon more would be a big market - share mover that consumers would pay for,» said Brian Johnson, a financial analyst at Barclays Capital.

The Raptor, for example, gets an EPA - estimated 15 miles per gallon in the city and just 18 on the highway.

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.

Under the rule the penalty would be raised from $ 5.50 to $ 14.00 for every tenth of a mile per gallon.

«Currently, Sen. Sampson's car, a 2005 Crown Victoria, gets 8 miles per gallon and the new one gets just over 20 miles per gallon,» said Austin Shafran, a spokesman for the Brooklyn Democrat.

«As usual, the administration sides with big, powerful special interests over the interests of average American families, who will pay the price for lower miles per gallon and dirtier air,» said Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader, in a statement.

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.

On his arrival at my home on the first day, the miles per gallon (mpg) reading on his car's display was 36.0, on the second 42.5 and on the third 44.0, when it also gave a reading of 71.5 for the cumulative mileage.

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.

For example, the agency says, it costs about $ 3 for every mile - per - gallon increase from improved rolling resistance, compared with $ 42 per mile to reduce engine frictiFor example, the agency says, it costs about $ 3 for every mile - per - gallon increase from improved rolling resistance, compared with $ 42 per mile to reduce engine frictifor every mile - per - gallon increase from improved rolling resistance, compared with $ 42 per mile to reduce engine friction.

«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.

Using greenhouse - gas figures for truck and rail from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (and assuming tractor trailers running at six miles per gallon of gasoline), we found that moving this monthly 174 - ton load kicks out 13.7 tons of CO2.

Powered by a 3.0 - liter V - 6 engine, the E320, for instance, gets 36 miles per gallon (combined) and can travel as much as 780 miles between fill - ups.

«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.»

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 president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

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.

Plug - in hybrids can get in excess of 100 miles per gallon because they can run on battery - powered electricity for around - town driving.

In the past few years, 40 miles per gallon has emerged as the definitive benchmark number for fuel efficiency.

The gas mileage is good for a truck averaging around 18 miles per gallon all around.

Penny - pincher alert: It has cost WAW about $ 700 in fuel to drive almost 30,000 miles (48,280 km); assuming $ 1.10 per gallon for diesel fuel, Volkswagen's Passat TDI travels a mile for just half a nickel's worth of fuel.

Coming later in the year for the European market will be a 1.6 - liter TDI that Audi says will achieve the equivalent of 61 miles per gallon in U.S. measurements on the highway.

As for the mileage, the Cruze Diesel truly did hit mid-to-high-40 miles per gallon on the highway, though it drops precipitously at lower speeds and in the city — but it's still in the mid - to high - 20s there.

The faster speeds and the lower cost, 7 - cents per kilowatt - hour versus $ 2.50 per gallon for diesel, means «you're earning 50 - percent more per mile than in a diesel truck.»

Multi-speed transmissions, direct - injection, turbocharging, that really has to be the future path for the internal combustion engine to get better miles per gallon.

the engine is refined and quiet 5) in the short time I have owned it, with a combo of around town and interstate driving, I am averaging right at 27 miles per gallon 6) Lots of nice features, great stereo, pano roof, lots of tech stuff, voice activated tech, heated and cooled seats 7) decent utility for a small SUV Some things you may not like: 1) this is an overall fairly small SUV?

While the Draft TAR analysis focuses on the MY 2022 - 2025 standards, the report also shows that auto manufacturers over-complied with the standards for each of the first three years of the program, and in 2014 outperformed the standards by 1.4 miles per gallon.

At the same time, we should point out that when the entire class is as efficient as these small cars, purchasing for an extra mile per gallon or two has debatable merit.

Capable of 29 mpg on the highway, the Porsche Cayenne Diesel in Chicago IL delivers everything drivers have loved about the Cayenne for years, but with more miles per gallon than its traditional counterparts.