And forget shifters, which even in
modern gasoline cars are merely electronic controls, the Ioniq Electric uses a clever button pod for Park, Reverse, Neutral and Drive.
Not exact matches
Modern diesel
cars emit less pollution generally than
cars that run on
gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.
I would without any hesitation pick a
modern high - revving VVT non-direct-injected naturally aspirated
gasoline engine instead of a direct - injected torquey turbodiesel, if I have to pay for the
car maintenance at the end of its life.
A
modern, efficient method of fuel delivery that replaced carburetors in all Ford passenger
cars and light trucks with
gasoline engines
However, most
modern fuel - injected
cars keep burning
gasoline even when you take your foot off the gas pedal.
The study also found that if all non-recycled plastics in the U.S. were converted to energy through facilities that use
modern plastics - to - oil technologies, they could produce nearly 6 billion gallons of
gasoline, enough to fuel nearly 9 million
cars per year.
Okay, so some study says
gasoline prices will have to go to $ 8 a gallon in the United Sates (it's already pretty close to that in Europe, folks) before, we're assured, those hybrids and electric
cars will payoff, meaning, supposedly, the savings on
gasoline will pay for the difference in the price between a comparable non-hybrid, or what I like to refer to as ICE age (internal combustion engine)
cars, and
modern electric drive models: hybrids, plug - in hybrids, all - electric.
2) A
modern coal power plant powering an electric drive
car produces less CO2 than
gasoline.
Our
modern civilization, powered by fossil fuels, sends tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere as we generate electricity to power our lights, furnaces and air conditioners, computers, television sets, cellphone and ipods and as we drive
gasoline powered
cars and fly in airplanes.