Sentences with phrase «rather than a gasoline»

Fueling the automobile fleet primarily with ethanol rather than gasoline might increase air pollution, a new study finds

Although the Volt concept, which is being introduced today at Detroit's North American Auto Show, is a kind of hybrid vehicle, the design emphasizes electric battery rather than gasoline engine operation.

Because rather than gasoline it runs on diesel.

It's a well - finished, fun - to - drive five - seater, with folding rear seats and ample cargo space, that simply happens to run on electricity rather than gasoline.

Even if they don't make the batteries much beefier, just having a few miles that can be driven in electric - only mode from power that came from the grid rather than the gasoline engine would be nice.

Diesel fuel system: Diesel engines are internal combustion engines that burn diesel oil rather than gasoline.

The only indication that it is on comes from the instrument cluster, which gives the usual feedback one would expect from a motorcycle, with the exception that it tells you about your electric charge, rather than your gasoline reserve.

An electric car is an alternative fuel car powered by an electric motor rather than a gasoline engine.

Not exact matches

With oil selling for around $ 100 a barrel and gasoline prices high, sales of cars that plugged in rather than filled up were beginning to climb.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

Rather than just using gasoline or diesel generators, the program for the first time is installing battery packs and rooftop solar panels on homes that don't have electricity.

Instead of the original carbureted pushrod V - 8 of 350 horsepower, it uses a four - overhead - camshaft, fuel - injected engine — again in lightweight aluminum and again burning gasoline rather than racing alcohol.

Low - wage workers would have more money in their pockets if the state rolled back fees on cell phones and gasoline rather than raising the minimum wage, he says.

Gasoline direct injection involves spraying high - pressure liquid gasoline directly into the engine cylinder rather than mixing and vaporizing the fuel in the intake port outside the cGasoline direct injection involves spraying high - pressure liquid gasoline directly into the engine cylinder rather than mixing and vaporizing the fuel in the intake port outside the cgasoline directly into the engine cylinder rather than mixing and vaporizing the fuel in the intake port outside the cylinder.

And with a barrel of oil costing more than $ 80 per barrel, making gasoline from the carbohydrates in plants rather than much - touted hydrogen is proving a better business opportunity for Cortright and Virent Energy Systems, the Madison, Wisc. - based company he founded to commercialize the technology.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

The Atkins diet is like throwing gasoline on the fire by increasing rather than decreasing the consumptions of foods that are the root cause of the majority of our major chronic diseases.

It will likely be built with a traditional body - on - frame architecture rather than a unibody design, and like many other small pickups sold internationally, diesel engines should be offered alongside gasoline ones.

When engaged, the three - cylinder gasoline engine runs all the time, rather than automatically shutting off when the vehicle comes to a stop.

Automakers favor the implementation of the stricter fuel standards since gasoline sold in Europe and Japan already meets the lower - sulfur standard, and could design engines for a global standard, rather than calibrating them for regional variations in fuel.

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

It is designed to run on «regular» unleaded gasoline rather than the premium fuel used in many other high - output V6 engines.

Adding GDI, or Gasoline Direct Injection, inside the cylinder rather than in the intake manifold as is now common, so - called Sequential multi-port fuel injection, controls the fuel even better for each particular cylinder, prevents fuel puddling in the intake manifold, and allows the fuel to cool the compressed air in the cylinder.

Unlike most hybrid systems we're familiar with, it receives assistance from the gasoline motor, rather than the other way around.

Volvo decided to use a gasoline - based electric hybrid rather than a diesel - electric hybrid because «petrol is simply the most global fuel.»

Rather than giving a list of all the nearest gas stations, it first wanted me to select a station brand in the Gasoline category.

The gasoline - electric hybrid holds the honor of being the first luxury car to offer plug - in capability, meaning it can be connected to either standard 110 - volt outlets or a 400 - volt system rather than simply relying on kinetic energy produced on the run to charge the battery that powers its electric motor.

Power for the electric motor comes mainly by recapturing energy from the forward momentum and braking of the vehicle, rather than from the gasoline engine.

It's an apt name since the electric motor assists the gasoline engine rather than working in tandem with it.

While most hybrid drivers would prefer to emphasize efficiency rather than performance, an Audi customer may not be concerned about paying his gasoline bill.

Furthermore, when you have the ability to charge your vehicle rather than filling it up with gasoline, savings abound.

The fuel is injected directly into the engine using gasoline direct injection, or GDI, rather than squirted generically into the intake manifold that directs air to all four cylinders.

Rather than resting on assumptions, RMI recently released the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator, which compares total lifetime costs of PEVs, hybrids and traditional gasoline powered vehicles.

The United States carries tremendous debts, much of it owned by foreigners and foreign governments, other countries» sovereign wealth funds are looking to acquire chunks of the U.S. economy, the U.S. dollars is the world's reserve currency primarily because of inertia rather than our economic strength, and we ship money abroad every day to buy plasma tvs and gasoline.

The 2018 Volt now uses an efficient 1.5 - liter gasoline engine mostly to power the car while it's operating as a hybrid, rather than to charge its battery.

Under those results, corn ethanol would generally offer a 25 - 30 % GHG reduction benefit relative to gasoline, rather than the current finding that corn ethanol offers little or no GHG savings compared to gasoline.

These were modified so their batteries could be plugged into the grid rather than charged by gasoline engines.

¶ Responding to falling oil industry revenues, the government of Algeria unveiled a suite of new programs meant to improve the country's financial situation, including a solar PV facility build = out, and energy efficiency programs, and incentives to convert their vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas rather than petrol / gasoline or diesel.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

If we add up all of these costs, which we did in a study published in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we find thousands of dollars of damages per vehicle (gasoline or electric) that are paid by the overall population rather than only by those releasing the emissions and consuming the oil.

Getting Our Priorities Right But rather than asking ourselves why we, or others, aren't doing all we can — we should look at what we are doing to limit our impact while we are living in a system that encourages the exact opposite, and imagine how much those efforts would be multiplied in a world where we paid the true cost of gasoline, where the coal industry was held responsible for its economically ruinous impacts, and where Governments got serious about supporting clean energy.

[1] Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles are different from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (which use electrochemical conversion of hydrogen rather than combustion); the hydrogen internal combustion engine is simply a modified version of the traditional gasoline - powered internal combustion engine.

It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel - efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our «addiction to oil.»

Although this and some other pronouncements by Mankiw concern gasoline taxes rather than carbon taxes, they could be considered bold by a close adviser to the Romney for President campaign.

And the extra revenues from the higher - priced gasoline would have belonged to all of us rather than just the owners of oil reserves.