Sentences with phrase «much less gasoline»

I live off the sun, a little firewood (good insulation), a little propane (for cooking), and much less gasoline than the average.

Not exact matches

Instead, E-85 at the pump will appear as much as $ 0.60 a gallon less than gasoline w / o alcohol because of the subsidies.

That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.

Much less than say, gasoline (octane), which is C8H18.

The hybrid gasoline engine will offer you an impressive 55 mpg city and 53 mpg highway, meaning you'll have to stop much less frequently to fill up.

The Audi Q5 hybrid offers a smooth transition between its electric motor and gasoline engine, but with mileage estimates of 24 mpg city / 30 highway, it's not that much more miserly than the torque - happy TDI or the 2.0 T, the latter with a starting price about $ 15,000 less than the admittedly loaded hybrid.

The new LEAF's 241 - km driving range is still much less than what's possible to wring out of Tesla's EVs and the Chevrolet Bolt, but it's more than what BMW's i3 can manage without its gasoline - powered range extender.

In other words, you pay more for the car but much less for all the gasoline you will use.

Actually, the true cost of gasoline is much less than what you pay at the pump.

Less than from gasoline / diesel in the worst case, and much, much better in the long run as we add wind power at night.

However, they are typically much less than those associated with gasoline vehicles.

Hydrogen contains much less energy per volume than gasoline or diesel.

In addition to being much less efficient than gasoline, E40 can not be used in most current car models, lawn mowers, and other small engines.

Gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, etc. pack a lot of energy per unit, can be burned pretty clean, do not destroy engines, are readily available, cost much less energy to produce than what they provide, and do not distort things like food supplies or national budgets to use.

Moreover, energy from oil and gas drilling is much less harmful to the environment — especially given the high usage of water, the unbearable flow of life - killing nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico, and of course the negative impacts on gasoline and diesel engines from the added ethanol (and the lower miles per gallon it delivers).

Electricity costs much less per mile than gasoline or diesel fuel, and electric cars costs less to maintain since they have far fewer moving parts and don't require oil changes.

But you need to also consider a few examples at the other end of the spectrum, such as the Aptera, Tesla *, Mitsubishi's (IIRC) iMiev... Electric vehicles that would use much less energy than the current average, even if they were powered by gasoline engines.