Sentences with phrase «than gas engines»

I found nine of 10 diesel vehicles had better five - year residual values than their gas engine counterparts.
Well, diesel engines aren't really inherently longer - lasting than gas engines.
All - electric cars have many less parts than a gas engine care counterpart, so expect much less in terms of repairs / maintenance.
Diesels may benefit even more than gas engines with the proliferation of multi-speed automatics, the extra ratios going a long way to disguising their relative lack of top - end power, not to mention keeping the revs down so that noise, vibration and harshness is minimized.
Net horsepower is 176, which is higher than the gas engine.
The gear ratio is 3.42, which seems tall until you consider that the powerband of the Duramax diesel is considerably lower than a gas engine.
Diesel engines produce more torque than gas engines, and the 3.0 L produces 420 lb - ft of torque and 240 horsepower.
And they placed less importance on NOx and carcinogenic soot, which diesels produce in higher quantities than gas engines.
A hybrid system borrowed from Lexus The hybrid system will be more powerful than the gas engine in the regular RAV4, although Toyota doesn't yet have official horsepower or fuel economy numbers.
(Typical of diesels, this one has a lower redline than gas engines — 5,000 rpm — so the 1,250 rpm span actually makes up a respectable segment of the rev range.)
Yes, diesel trucks are certainly useful workhorses, but when it comes to daily driving they can be less responsive than gas engines.
Most importantly for our purposes: in cars, a diesel engine is 20 % -40 % more efficient but it may cost $ 2000 more than a gas engine car.
The auto media and the green vehicle auto media in particular, have loved diesel engines for years, but there are those skeptics, like me, who note that diesel engines do not produce less CO2 per mile than gas engines that provide the same acceleration.
But diesel engines don't rev up very high, so they make less horsepower on average than gas engines, which is why they aren't many sports cars with diesel engines.
The diesel automatic transmissions typically used a different torque converter than the gas engine automatics, although there seems to be some exceptions (which relate to the truck's GVWR) in which this is not the case.
After all, these small electric vehicles are convenient, easy to park, and cheap to operate, and are arguably cleaner to use than a gas engine, especially at the «tailpipe», and getting more people riding could be an effective pollution and climate solution, but most existing transportation infrastructure and regulations aren't really encouraging their adoption.
But FCEVs are cleaner than natural gas vehicles and way cleaner than gas engines and diesels.
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