Sentences with phrase «percent less fuel»

We're also modernizing our fleet as we await our Trent 1000 - powered 787 - 9 Dreamliners that will burn 20 percent less fuel than the planes they replace.

Among claims that the US airline industry is moving more people more efficiently and much more quietly than in decades past, it also claims that the «US commercial aviation industry has improved its energy efficiency, moving twelve percent more people and twenty - two percent more freight than it did in 2000, while burning five percent less fuel and producing 10 million tons less carbon dioxide.»

But because tons and power increased so much, the average new car sold in 2009 used only 10 to 15 percent less fuel per kilometer than one sold in 1990, when the present fuel economy standards maxed out.

The aircraft structure is made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic, therefore, it uses 25 percent less fuel and produces 25 percent less fewer environmental damaging emissions.

All engines feature direct fuel injection, and consume 15 percent less fuel than their respective predecessors.

Rated at 469 metric horsepower and 700 Nm (516 lb - ft) of torque the new engine is said to burn eight percent less fuel than its 4.7 - liter predecessor thanks to the cylinder shut - off function.

As early as Spring 2007, the sports car manufacturer had equipped the new generation of the Cayenne series with engines with petrol direct injection that consume up to 15 percent less fuel in real - world driving conditions.

The new Mercedes - AMG C 63 consumes around 32 percent less fuel than its direct predecessor with the 6.3 - litre V8 naturally aspirated engine — while delivering even more performance and the emotional sound that is a signature of the AMG V8.

Because of this increased energy output, FIA rules require the R18 to consume 2.5 percent less fuel per lap; further additions to the rule book limit the team to only five engines per race car for the entire 2015 season.

Yet despite its fun - to - drive nature, the new MZR 2.0 - litre uses 4 percent less fuel than the outgoing 2.0 - litre, which means lower operating costs on a daily basis.

To express this in figures, the E 250 CDI with 150 kW / 204 hp and 500 newton metres develops a 25 percent higher torque than the previous V6 diesel engine, but uses around 23 percent less fuel at only 5.3 litres per 100 kilometres (combined NEDC consumption).

In addition to bumping up their power per liter output, DI increases fuel efficiency and, along with the newly optimized standard 7 - speed automatic transmission (the 7G - tronic plus), the new Cs consume anywhere from 5 to 15 percent less fuel than their predecessors.

The outstanding safety and comfort of the E-Class are matched by its environmental compatibility and economy: the four - and six - cylinder engines are direct - injection units, and consume up to 23 percent less fuel than before.

Audi says the new R18 e-tron quattro will use up to 30 percent less fuel than the predecessor, thanks to the updated V6 TDI engine and ERS - K Energy Recovery System Kinetic.

The efficient engines consume 26 percent less fuel on average.

JLR claims the new petrol engines deliver up to 25 percent more power than the engines they replace, while consuming up to 15 percent less fuel.

Thanks to a series of detailed improvements, the four - cylinder engines now burn up to seven percent less fuel than previously, and distinguish themselves with remarkably low exhaust emissions that undercut the current EU limits by as much as 90 percent.

The smaller engine uses 14 percent less fuel than the two - liter unit, and therefore also produces less CO2 emissions.

The new 1.7 CDTI turbo - diesel (81 kW / 110 hp and 92 kW / 125 hp) consumes seven percent less fuel than the 1.9 - liter unit (74 kW / 100 hp and 88 kW / 120 hp).

Ford claims the 2017 Raptor will consume 23 percent less fuel than the previous model Raptor, thanks largely to its weight reduction, new 10 - speed transmission, and smaller turbocharged V6 engine.

A 3.0 - liter turbocharged V - 6 will serve as primary motivation for the Q4, Q5, and Q6 and should burn twenty percent less fuel than the current supercharged version of that engine.

The twin - turbo four replaces the old 300CDI V6 and offers exactly the same power and torque while using 28 percent less fuel.

And yet it consumes 18 percent less fuel in the European cycle.

The threes are, naturally, lighter and more compact than four - cylinders, and use about 10 percent less fuel.

Seventh is just long enough to reach the F12's 211 - mph top speed — there is no extralong cruising gear, and yet the F12 still manages to sip 30 percent less fuel than the 599.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, however, and racing rules say that by improving its hybrid system, Audi's internal combustion engine must use 2.5 percent less fuel than before.

On sale Now / mid - 2012 (convertible / coupe) Price $ 113,995 / $ 106,995 (convertible / coupe) Engine 4.4 L twin - turbo V - 8, 560 hp, 500 lb - ft Feeding the rivalry Despite more power, this M car's biggest achievement is that it uses 23 percent less fuel than the old one.

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.

Four groups — based at MIT, Boeing, GE, and Northrup Grumman — tackled NASA's challenge to improve subsonic flight, in which the agency asked for aircraft designs that burn 70 percent less fuel and create less noise than existing planes.

These alterations would make the aircraft use 37 percent less fuel than a typical passenger jet, Uranga says.

Lunz, for instance, says his fields produce about 175 bushels per acre, 25 more than a decade ago, while using 25 to 30 percent less fuel.

The new route uses its new fleet of Airbus A350 XWBs, a widebody aircraft that claims to use 25 - percent less fuel compared to its aluminum long - range competitors, like Boeing's B777.

A report by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) analyzed 20 carriers and concluded that the Australian airline was 64 percent less fuel efficient than the top performers, All Nippon Airways and Hainan.

Not exact matches

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

That's why analysts expect the government to look for operating expenditure cuts — such as cutting remaining fuel subsidies — even as it tries to keep up development spending and target lower - income households, often called the B40, or bottom 40 percent with incomes of less than around 2,500 ringgit a month.

The market - implied odds of a December rate increase have slid to less than 50 percent, versus as high as 80 percent last month, according to overnight index swap data compiled by Bloomberg, fueled by a slew of weak data prints.

Singapore, one of the sunniest cities in the world, generates almost all its power from imported natural gas, with solar fuelling less than 1 percent.

Another 6 percent heat with electricity, and less than 2 percent apiece use fuel oil or propane.

Landlords spent 41.2 percent less on fuel, thanks to low fuel oil prices and a mild winter.

This concentrated atomic assault allows the reactor to extract 100 times as much energy from uranium fuel as do current thermal reactors, which use less than 1 percent of the fuel's potential energy.

While ethanol currently makes up less than 4 percent of the motor fuel used nationally, the corn used in ethanol production constitutes 14 percent of the domestic crop.

Marine shipping fuels will get a whole lot cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires fuels to contain 80 - 86 percent less sulphur.

He notes that of the nearly 4,000 papers published on microbial fuel cells, less than 2 percent report on processing volumes of water larger than one liter.

A downside of fuel cells, however, is that they have a capital cost in the thousands of dollars per kilowatt of capacity, and the round - trip efficiency through the electrolyzer to the fuel cell and then back into current is less than 50 percent — meaning that for every two kilowatt - hours put in the bank, only one comes back out again.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

Hennessy claims that these can produce «at least a 50 percent reduction in the burning of diesel fuel, plus the diesels will need less maintenance and last much longer.

GE's solution is to put in less fuel: «Let's not put in 100 percent of the volume, let's put in 75 percent,» Loewen says.

«These composites, which have less than 1 percent metal, respond as «super catalysts» for fuel - cell applications.

By about 12 hours you can displace the diesel fuel to less than 10 percent,» Warner notes.