Sentences with phrase «much fuel this stop»

However, I am somewhat skeptical as to how much fuel this stop / start system actually saves, because its operation is constrained in several ways.

Not exact matches

Designer Gordon Murray reckoned that if cars ran two stints on low fuel and soft tyres that it'd be much quicker than trying to do the whole race without stopping.

In fact, recent estimates suggest as much as a third of climate emissions could be offset by stopping deforestation and restoring forest land — and that this solution could be achieved much faster than cuts to fossil fuels.

Use our Keto Calculator and stick to your macros, too much protein will prevent ketosis and can indeed prevent fat loss by stopping fat from being our primary source of fuel.

If you stop eating or reduce your calories too much your body goes into starvation mode, it will hang on to everything you eat and it will store it to be used as fuel.

But flooring the 1.8 T's throttle from a stop induced so much front axle tromp that the traction control system shut off the fuel supply at precisely 2,800 rpm.

Those 12,000 - plus miles have cost us almost $ 900 in diesel fuel — and cost the environment who knows how much, since no fix yet exists to stop our SportWagen from releasing 10 to 40 times the allowable amount of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

The company has not yet said how much stop - start will improve the Jeep Cherokee «s fuel economy.

Even though it can't keep driving indefinitely, the 2015 Honda CR - V can drive for a lot longer than before before stopping for fuel, thanks to a new powertrain that ups highway fuel economy to as much as 34 mpg with front - wheel drive.

Despite the G550 and G63 having an Eco start / stop feature that cuts engine power at idle, there isn't much eco going on here, with fuel economy that can't break 14 mpg.

Corvette engineers believe the C7.R can see as much as a 3 percent gain in fuel economy, which could save Corvette Racing at least one regular pit stop over the course of the race.

That means that the X3 should stop, corner, and accelerate much better, not to mention it should get better fuel economy as well.

These races are so tight it sometimes comes down to when you take your last stop and how much fuel you take on and, with a longer race, you've got a far wider strategy window to play with.

It doesn't just stop at mpgs; the Prius can be configured to show historical fuel efficiency for the past few mile or the past few weeks or, if you input a reference fuel economy and the current fuel prices, to calculate how much fuel and money the Prius is saving you in real time.

Fuel mileage is 20 miles per gallon in the city and 22 on the highway — not quite as good as the standard LS while cruising but much better in stop and go traffic.

There's also an extended start / stop function, and an energy recovery output of up to 12 kW, with all these measures said to bring down average fuel consumption by as much as 0.7 l / 100 km.

The TDI with 6 - speed gearbox and coupled to a Stop / Start system consumes very little fuel, much less than the previous model.

Driving much of the weekend around 40 mph and plowing through snow, stopping frequently to clean the windows and sensors, I averaged only in the low 40s on fuel economy.

Like the 8HP, the 9HP uses a modular design approach that allows AWD and stop / start capability; ZF claims as much as a 16 percent combined fuel - economy increase compared to equivalent six - speed transverse automatics.

But odds are if you're considering the hybrid, you care as much if not more about fuel economy, and here the hybrid shows where it really excels with potential short - range EV driving, a stop - start system that shuts the engine down at a stop to save fuel, and other useful tricks.

With a slight boost in horsepower and a 300 - pound drop in weight, the Buick LaCrosse Avenir also offers significantly better performance and fuel economy, as it uses Active Fuel Management and stop - start technology to reduce energy use much as possifuel economy, as it uses Active Fuel Management and stop - start technology to reduce energy use much as possiFuel Management and stop - start technology to reduce energy use much as possible.

Variable Cylinder Management technology shuts off half of the engine's cylinders when coasting, and the result is an EPA fuel economy rating of as much as 23 mpg in combined driving for the front - wheel - drive models with the 9 - speed automatic and automatic start / stop technology.

Catching Fire: Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she can not stop.

Why Trucker Path is Best in Transportation: It's an invaluable app that can show users the amenities truck stops offer, offer real - time parking information, show fuel prices at over 5,000 locations, and much more.

Qualifying pace is determined by achieving an objective of setting a time to finish a practice session in a certain position or higher, while race strategy develops your team's approach to the entire race from the amount of fuel onboard at the start of the race to your pit stop strategy which is focused around telemetry that is gathered within a 5 lap stint were you are allowed to push the car as much as your driving style requires.

How much reduction of fossil fuel burning will it take to stop global warming?

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

While climate science promotes the narrative of cooperation for stopping the use of fossil fuels, one just need to look to how much money is spent in national defence budgets to see that the world is still fiercely competing to control the remaining economically viable resources of fossil fuels.

Leif Knutsen 35 «To stop climate change, flat CO2 emissions aren't enough, say scientists» IMHO the movement of heat into the deep ocean with heat pipes as explained in the above references is also required and can produce as much zero emissions energy as we currently derive from fossil fuels.

If climate sensitivity is higher than thought as so much evidence keeps suggesting recently, when do actually take this seriously and just stop using fossil fuels on a personal and general level?

... Construction of a few wind turbines in Arctic villages won't stop climate change and can't undo much of the damage the fossil fuel economy has already done here.

If the fossil fuel companies passed this cost on to the rest of us, we'd find the actual most economically efficient energy resource to use, or stop wasting so much, or conserve, or otherwise express our tastes economically.

Of course we need to stop new fossil projects of all types for climate reasons regardless of what it might cost us, but it seems we are not as dependent on fossil fuel exports for our prosperity anywhere as much as the fossil fuel industry tends to imply.

• The magnitude of the long - latency tail depends upon how much CO2 is placed in the atmosphere and on the profile for the eventual stopping of CO2 emissions as fossil fuels are depleted.

This means that even though the scenario is viable, there isn't much reasons for countries to stop digging up fossil fuels.

Our representatives in Washington are certainly sharply divided in their views on which of these trends we should back and which ones we should try to stop — with a big block only excited about fossil fuels and another wanting to bet pretty much everything on cutting consumption and promoting new energy sources.

The constraints on the sensitivity and the forcings (absent the sun going out or fossil fuel burning stopping) are not strong enough to move the prediction much.

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

But because backup generators must repeatedly surge to full power and back to standby, as wind speed rises and falls, they operate inefficiently, use more fuel and emit more — much like cars forced to stop repeatedly on freeways.

They claim that stopping cars would add too much weight, hurting fuel economy, and that the bodies of the trailers are not even strong enough to support them.

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline is important not just because it will help stop future leaks that, judging from the track record of TransCanada's first pipeline, Keystone 1, as highlighted above, will be much larger than the spills we've seen from rail transport, but it also prevents a massive piece of essentially permanent fossil fuel infrastructure from being established that will no doubt push global warming past the point of no return, as the «terrifying math of global warming» makes startlingly clear.

Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas I need to get myself away from this place I said yep what a concept I could use a little fuel myself And we could all use a little change Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb So much to do so much to see So what's wrong with taking the back streets You'll never know if you don't go You'll never shine if you don't glow