Sentences with phrase «per mile used»

But they would have been inefficient redemptions where I was saving less than 1 cent per mile used.

That reservation might have cost $ 1,000, resulting in a mere 1.67 cents per mile used.

GM estimates that the Volt will cost about two cents per mile to drive while under battery power compared to 12 cents per mile using gasoline priced at $ 3.60 per gallon.

Not exact matches

On some roads, drivers could use Autopilot at up to 90 miles (145 km) per hour, it said.

TD put up $ 100 million to steal away Aeroplan, off ering a 15 % higher fee per reward mile than CIBC currently pays when customers use one of its Aeroplan - branded credit cards.

Gita is 26 inches in diameter and can carry up to 40 pounds, travel at 22 miles per hour and run for eight hours of continuous use.

For example, airlines use (revenues per passenger miles) and hotels use (average daily rate).

My work delivering talks and running masterclasses requires me to fly well more than 100,000 air miles per year and use taxis and hotels around the world.

Using magnetic levitation technology — used by train systems in countries including China, Japan, France and Germany — Virgin Hyperloop pods have already achieved speeds of 240 miles per hour.

We know that the truck uses four independent electric motors that are derived from the Model 3, that it has an energy consumption of less than 2 kWh per mile, and that it can be charged to up to 400 miles in about half an hour.

Tip # 2: Use the United MileagePlus ® Club Card to earn 1.5 X United miles per dollar on purchases that don't fall under a bonus category of one of the Chase Ultimate Rewards credit cards.

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.

DOT shut down one mile of the highway's northbound lanes on Monday, forcing 50,000 motorists per day to use an alternate route.

Sofranko spoke about how he's been told about matching grants that cable providers could use to get above the 20 houses per mile standard for providing service in rural areas.

McDonald says the DOT plans to use federal funds to build new tracks upstate and an environmental impact statement on what investment is needed to bring that corridor to 90 to 110 miles per hour is close to completion.

Then, they measured the distance between the footprints and used an equation based on observations of living, walking bipeds to estimate the dinosaur's walking speed, yielding a result between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour), they report online this month and in a forthcoming print issue of Cretaceous Research.

And whereas many traditional motorcycles can achieve a respectable 50 miles per gallon at a driving cost of about seven cents per mile, an electric bike uses the energy equivalent of about 420 mpg at an operating cost of two to three cents per mile.

He has been studying impacts and impact processes for years using NASA's Vertical Gun Range, a high - powered cannon that can fire projectiles at speeds up to 15,000 miles per hour.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

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.

In situations where consumers must average ratio information, such as comparing the fuel efficiency of two cars using the ratio miles per gallon, they often flub the numbers by incorrectly assuming the mathematic equation to find miles per gallon would be to average the sum of the mileage of both cars and then divide by two, instead of using a more complex equation needed to accurately compare ratios.

Now Winglee has the go - ahead from NASA to perfect what could be his most promising trick yet: using an 8 - inch magnet to propel spacecraft at speeds of up to 180,000 miles per hour — 10 times as fast as the space shuttle.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

We've figured out a cost - effective way to do that so you can end up with a 66 - mile - per - gallon uncompromised SUV that has half the normal weight, has a third the normal fuel use, is safer, and repays the extra cost that comes with being a hybrid in less than two years.

The satellite is destined for an orbit 438 miles above Earth and will use a spectrometer to measure CO2 concentrations in the air 24 times per second

Using a single satellite image collected at UM's Center for Southeastern Tropical Remote Sensing (CSTARS), the research team was able to determine that a roughly 60 - meter high internal wave was traveling at a speed of three miles per hour (1.4 meters per second) near Dongsha Island in the South China Sea.

Some 59 miles of driving on the highway and twisting mountain lanes uses up 22 kilowatt - hours with an average energy of 377 watt - hours per mile, during a recent test drive.

One often - used glider — PIK - 20E glider — has a 49.2 - foot wingspan and a retractable engine, and it can fly up to 174 miles per hour.

In November researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that producing corn ethanol consumes 28 gallons of water per mile traveled, whereas conventional petroleum uses 0.15 gallon.

Conventional trains consume 2,600 Btu per passenger - mile, while air travel uses 3,300 and cars 3,500.

Today's aircraft use roughly 80 percent less fuel per passenger - mile than the first jets of the 1950s — a testimony to the tremendous impact of aerospace engineering on flight.

Audacity used eight engines to slow to a leisurely 1.7 miles per hour as the rover, connected by a bridle, dangled beneath.

Because salt is much less dense than rock, the sound waves surveyors use to scour the depths race through it at nearly three miles per second, twice as fast as it traverses the surrounding rock and sand.

But by using beads of varying hardness, the researchers were able to generate pulses that surged through the beads at speeds ranging from 67 to 670 miles per hour.

The system uses a windshield - mounted computer equipped with a camera and radar to automatically accelerate, decelerate, avoid obstacles and stay in a lane at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour.

Such is the lesson of a host of efforts, ranging from a group called OPOWER's comparative use utility billing to switching from miles per gallon to rate vehicle efficiency to gallons per mile.

The device can travel up to about 65 kilometers (42 miles) at an average speed of four kilometers per hour (2.5 mph) using a one - pound lithium polymer battery.

Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly - naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.

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.

Meanwhile, at nearby Naples Municipal Airport, a device used to measure air speeds — an anemometer — clocked a wind gust of 229 kilometers (142 miles) per hour.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed record, traveling with a velocity of about 1,200 kilometers per second or 2.7 million miles per hour.

According to the authors of the study, who used geological observations made using the THEMIS instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling of impact processes, large crater - forming impacts would have created tornado - like wind vortices that reached speeds of up to 500 miles per hour.

It came within 176 miles of the surface of Venus and used the planet's gravity to accelerate the spacecraft to a speed of around four miles per second.

«I'd say 3.5 miles per hour tops, using light dumbbells, so you can get your steps coordinated with your upper body movements,» says Steward.

Using the same example from above, let's say you ride your bike at about 10 - 12 miles per hour for half an hour per day.

To find a group that fit and trim in our society, they had to use long - distance endurance athletes — who ate the same crappy American diet, but ran an average of 48 miles per week for 21 years.

At speeds over 13 - minute mile rate you are burning more calories per mile as you use more muscle groups, as well as building muscle.

A man that is 5 feet 10 and 154 pounds will use up 370 calories in an hour if he hikes, and 590 calories if running 5 miles per hour.

I used to be in that camp, running basically a marathon per week (usually 5 days per week at 5 + miles per clip).

I have been using the 180 method off and on (mostly on) for the past year and had good results getting my per mile pace down to 10 to 11 min miles.