Sentences with phrase «on vehicle miles»

Participant vehicles will be equipped with on - board computer systems, including a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) component that receives location information from satellites, for collecting and transmitting information on vehicle miles traveled by jurisdiction.

That's the primary reason that in 2016, based on vehicle miles travelled, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 28 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

The gradual development of car alternatives has translated into a freeze on vehicle miles traveled and tailpipe emissions in the metro area over the past decade, according to data from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG).

Like other proposed funding solutions, including the tax on vehicle miles traveled, highway tolls are controversial, especially in the parts of the state most likely to be impacted by tolls.

Not exact matches

The so - called «Bos - Wash Landliner» was imagined in the late 1960s as running on air skis (a little like the initial Hyperloop proposal), vacuuming up moving vehicles at 60 miles an hour, and housing everything from a 100 seat theater to a gym.

A monthly subscription that's less than a car payment (apparently average in the US is $ 489) offering Zipcar - style car access and on - demand rides with a lower per - mile rate is really compelling, and makes it much easier to insert the autonomous vehicles these companies are working on anyways.

Represents the percentage change compared to prior year period in miles driven per vehicle per workday on US lease power units.

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.

Apple is doing its part to cater to automobiles as well with CarPlay, which extends iOS devices into vehicles, but the company's efforts so far are miles away (again, pun not intended) from the total integration that Google looks to be working on.

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens of millions of dollars per mile.

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

The analysis assumed each car drove 15,000 miles — roughly the national average — at a rate of 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per 100 miles, based on the median mileage rate for Tesla Model 3 and Model S vehicles, according to figures reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

There's also some friendly rivalry with sister organization the Self Racing Cars league, which was also there at the racetrack April 1, but racing full sized vehicles on a two mile track.

The Middle Eastern firm is going the extra mile, however, utilizing other electric vehicles, machines that run on compressed natural gas and biodiesel, as well as solar - powered boats that are capable of cleaning lakes and other bodies of water for its operations.

Tesla's long - range electric vehicles can drive between 210 and 315 miles on a single charge.

The FF 91 is also capable of reaching an EPA - adjusted 378 miles on a single charge, which is farther than any distance offered by any other electric vehicle on a single charge and makes it competitive even against traditional gasoline - powered vehicles.

Vancouver sits less than 750 miles from the Canadian oil sands but it may as well be on another continent for vehicle drivers.

«Travel on all roads and streets changed by -0.1 % -LRB--0.2 billion vehicle miles) for February 2018 as compared with February 2017.

BMW drove fewer miles than some of the other major companies and only had its vehicles on public roads in March and April of 2016.

Waymo's vehicles in the Phoenix area have driven more than 4 million miles on public roads.

Tesla will offer an extended four - year or 50,000 - mile limited warranty on its used vehicle.

In the 12 - month period ended in November, vehicles logged 2.97 trillion miles on American roads, according to the Federal Highway Administration.

The group was travelling from Beni Suef province to the remote monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Maghagha when gunman opened fire on their vehicle approximately 140 miles south of Cairo.

Already Toyota and Honda have hybrid vehicles on the lot that can get 50, 60, 70 miles to the gallon.

Those miles put a hefty toll on the fleet, and if a vehicle goes out of commission it can lead to delayed or missed deliveries — an unacceptable outcome for customers that depend on access to fresh proteins.

Some 90 miles from home, we passed all manner of vehicles, including at least a dozen with Texas plates on them.

The little hired bus rumbles north across Lake Pontchartrain on the longest bridge in the U.S., 24 miles of roadway sucked up underneath the front of the vehicle and spit out the back in a monotonous sound track of tires against expansion joints.

While an ambulance foundered in a snowbank 3 miles away, police and neighbors summoned doctors, nurses and paramedics who arrived on snowmobiles and in four - wheel drive vehicles to deliver Rosan and John Sandbach's second child.

Latest Government figures show that vehicle movements now stand at 324Bn miles, up 1.7 % on last year and have increased by 3.2 % since the pre recession peak of nearly a decade ago.

The statistics also show that traffic on rural A roads (94.3 Bn vehicle miles) and minor roads outside of urban areas (45.7 Bn vehicle miles) rose to record highs, each up around 2.4 % on last year.

It is harder to find data on Private sector business trips, but our estimates suggest that up to 11bn miles are travelled each year in grey fleet vehicles.

ALBANY, N.Y. — An Audi sedan drove itself and four passengers through Albany on Tuesday for 6.1 miles, marking the first - ever test of an autonomous vehicle in New York.

------------------------------- Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 40 year old Gloria Prott of Southhaven on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance, driving while ability impaired by drugs, speeding at 80 miles an hour in a 55 zone and operating a motor vehicle with an open container of an alcoholic beverage, following a traffic stop on State Highway 17 in the Town of Hancock.

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city's municipal vehicle fleet logged 102 million miles on the road in the last fiscal year, 25 percent more miles than in 2014, the mayor's first year in office.

The City Council voted in two bills to strengthen a ban on so - called «e-bikes,» by tossing out the part of the law that allowed the vehicles to be used as long as they were not going faster than 15 miles per hour, Quinn said.

The Chenango County Sheriff's Office attempted to stop a vehicle operated by 24 year old Samuel Ackermann of Norwich, he led officers on an 8 mile pursuit from Oxford that ended when Ackermann crashed into a tree and fled the... Continue reading →

City vehicles logged 102 million miles on the road in the last fiscal year, which ended in June, 25 percent more miles than in 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio's first year in office.

More than 40,000 vehicles travel every day on the mile - long Skyway, which is 110 feet high, connecting the Southtowns and Outer Harbor to downtown Buffalo, the Canadian border and the Thruway.

State Police arrested 39 year old Trenton Jackson of Rochester, for Aggravated Unlicensed Operation, after a trooper observed 2 vehicles traveling at about 90 miles per hour while on I - 81, both vehicles exited the highway at Castle Creek, where the... Continue reading →

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.

Developers Phinergy and Alcoa envision the design as a range extender for electric vehicles, providing more than 1,000 miles of range on a charge, or as an emergency power solution, since the cells have a theoretically infinite shelf life.

(By contrast, a typical zero - emission electric vehicle charges in three hours at 240 volts and goes 84 miles on a single charge.)

Plug - in hybrids take the concept further by plugging into a regular electric outlet to enable the vehicle to operate solely on its electric motor for ranges of 40 - 50 miles or more on a single charge.

The proposed vehicle would be able to drive around like an SUV, hold four soldiers, and could reach an altitude of 10,000 feet and fly 250 miles on a single tank of gas.

The vehicle, carried to its destination aboard the Mars Science Laboratory, will start its journey on the floor of Gale Crater, a 96 - mile - wide depression marked with channels suggesting a watery past.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

The entrants — who ultimately must build a vehicle that gets the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon of gasoline and that could be mass - produced — were judged on both their technical specifications and their business plans, according to Eric Cahill, foundation senior director.

Emissions across nearly all sectors grew in 2013, with increased GHG emissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according to the EPA.

On its first mission, the new vehicle, called Nereus (rhymes with «serious»), explored the deepest part of the ocean, Challenger Deep — a nearly 7 - mile - deep trench east of the Marianas Islands in the western Pacific.