Sentences with phrase «than diesel fuel»

The U.S. Army is testing two prototype generators in Iraq that run on garbage, rather than diesel fuel.

According to test results I've seen, vegetable oil burns somewhat cleaner in most categories than diesel fuel, and emits absolutely no sulfur.

But New York is the only state with such a moratorium, and there is increasing pressure to convert trucking fleets to natural gas, which burns cleaner than diesel fuel.

Not exact matches

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Lacking the density of liquid fuels, gas requires large tanks for the compressed fuel and even then has a more limited driving range than gasoline or diesel.

The jump in crude and gasoline stocks was offset by a bigger - than - anticipated fall in inventories of diesel, jet fuel and other distillates.

when you sell a product that lower's or eliminantes energy bill's (heating, electricity, car and diesel fuel bill's) That is more than stimulus that is FREEDOM.

DIESEL FUEL - It is less refined and more energy dense than gasoline, converting heat into energy more efficiently, sending less heat out the tailpipe than gas - powered vehicles.

While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.

FUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrFUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrfuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrids.

EMISSIONS - Because diesel fuel is heavier and oilier than gasoline it can be more polluting, earning a reputation for sootiness when it came into wider U.S. automotive use during the 1970's oil crisis.

CEO Elon Musk said the semi is capable of traveling 500 miles (804 kilometers) on an electric charge — even with a full 80,000 - pound (36,287 - kilogram) load — and will cost less than a diesel semi considering fuel savings, lower maintenance and other factors.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which knocked off more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity in the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for years.

One of the largest restaurant franchisor / franchisee organizations in the United States, TA Restaurant Group is a division comprised of more than 850 food concepts that are affiliated with TravelCenters of America LLC - a Fortune 500 company that offers gasoline and diesel fueling, restaurants, truck repair facilities and convenience stores in 43 states and Canada.

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

In Europe, about half of all new cars sold are now diesels, some of which are more fuel - efficient than a Prius.

After all, aren't diesels the green cars, the ones that use less fuel than petrol - run cars and therefore conserve natural resources and reduce global warming?

«The blend - stock can be mixed into gasoline at higher concentrations than ethanol's current limit of 10 percent; plus it can be added to diesel and jet fuel.

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

The kit detected diesel fuel — a concern with respect to illegal dumping and leaking tanks — with a sensitivity better than one part per million.

Because hydrogen fuel cells operate more efficiently at less - than - maximum power, their advantage relative to diesel generators rises, he said.

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

Expensive fuel and steady, long - distance driving are also arguments for diesel in areas like Europe, where they make up more than half the passenger vehicle market.

Engines that run on diesel fuel are inherently more fuel - efficient than their gasoline counterparts.

Highly turbocharged alcohol - fueled direct - injection spark - ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

This advanced combustion system utilizes low - cetane fuels (derived gasoline and naptha blends) that are easier for the energy companies to produce than pump gasoline or diesel.

From diesel engines to electric drives, from alternative fuels to control software, from transmissions to batteries, we have been working in partnership with companies all over the world for more than 60 years.

The caveat here are the new hybrid gasoline engines which dramatically improve petrol fuel consumption, which coupled with the lower carbon density of the fuel make them lower emitters than an equivelant engine size diesel.

However, on average a diesel engine tends to be between 30 % to 40 % more eficient in fuel consumption than its equivelant engine size petrol counterpart, therefore, per km the diesel engine will emit less.

I'm coursing with energy when I sit down at my desk, rather than blearily checking email and guzzling coffee like diesel fuel.

After nearly 550 miles, the fuel gauge still showed more than a quarter of a tank of diesel remaining.

The E350 BlueTec is a tough sell for several reasons: It's priced higher than the regular E350, it's fuel economy is only marginally better than its gas - fed counterpart, and average fuel costs for its owner will be higher because diesel fuel is generally more expensive than gasoline.

Best of all, this diesel powerplant promises to deliver better fuel economy than its gasoline - powered siblings» 15/23 mpg city / hwy rating.

Because it gets fuel economy that's significantly better than the S400 Hybrid, particularly on the highway (the EPA rates the hybrid at 19/25 mpg city / highway, and Mercedes reckons that the diesel will earn a 20 / 31 - mpg rating), but is expected cost only a few thousand dollars more.

There's no reason Jaguar should offer the diesel XE in America other than to meet fuel economy standards and to give buyers a less - expensive alternative to the XE S until the smaller gasoline motor arrives.

The fuel savings between the two models are minimal at best, especially when you consider that diesel fuel often costs a bit more than gasoline.

Zero emission buses are more fuel - efficient than diesel buses.

Other engines on offer include two petrols — a 99bhp 1.4 - litre and 118bhp 1.6 - litre — as well as a 108bhp tune of this 1.6 diesel and a very meagre sounding 89bhp 1.4 CRDi, which majors only on list price with worse fuel economy than the 1.6 and a yawning 13.5 sec 0 - 62 time; unlikely to be called upon in Top Trumps, but it will translate into overtaking frustration in the real world.

Next in line to further decrease CO2 form cars come downsized turbo GDI (gas direct injection) engines and they emit much more ultrafine particles and NOX than regular natural aspirated engines with PFI (port fuel injection) and even more than some Euro6 diesels with particle filter.

Don't expect to achieve those numbers in real - world driving, but over most journeys the diesel should sip significantly lower quantities of fuel than the petrol.

Other notable factors are a lower proportion of diesel - powered engines across the Australian car and LCV fleet than in Europe, fewer government incentives for lower - emissions vehicles and relatively low fuel prices compared with Europe.

Regular unleaded fuel is about $ 0.20 cheaper a gallon than diesel.

But that's on diesel fuel, which is 38 cents, or 11 percent, more per gallon than regular unleaded as of this writing.

To put it in perspective, the A7 diesel gets much better highway fuel economy than the much smaller Volkswagen GTI, which has a turbocharged, 2.0 - liter gasoline four - cylinder, and it's almost on par with a four - cylinder Honda Accord.

The big V6 never leaves you in any doubt that it's using compression rather than sparks to ignite its fuel mix, but the noise it produces is a muscular multi-cylinder hum rather than the sort of industrial sounds you'd more typically associate with a diesel.

However, the diesel - powered model is $ 8,800 more than a rear - drive 530e iPerformance and $ 7,050 more than a 530e xDrive iPerformance, both of which are currently the most fuel efficient 5 Series models available.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel comprised mostly of methane and is cleaner burning than gasoline or diesel fuel.

Carder believes it could take no more than retuning of the VWs» fuel injection to make its diesels meet EPA standards.

EPA fuel economy figures for the diesel are still a ways off, but we can tell you that in the European test cycle it's nearly 25 percent more efficient than the GLK350; ours probably won't do quite as well, however, because the U.S. diesel doesn't get the auto stop / start system.