Sentences with phrase «vehicle fuel use»

In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Using average fuel consumption for passenger vehicles and trucks (AADT (T)-RRB-, it then models the influence of progressive increases in roughness and deflection of the roadway's top layer over time (between major rehabilitations) and interprets the calculated decline in performance as increased vehicle fuel use due to the pavement.

We last surveyed household vehicle fuel use in 1985, and our trucking inventory and use survey died in 2002.

Not exact matches

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Some segments are considered «ecommerce - proof» for now, such as new and used vehicles, gasoline and other fuels, restaurants and bars, and still - to the greatest annoyance of Amazon - groceries.

While fuel - cell vehicles are available on the market currently, they aren't used commonly right now because it is complicated to recharge the hydrogen fuel cells, says Rinebold.

Some segments are considered «ecommerce - proof» for now, such as new and used vehicles, gasoline and other fuels, restaurants and bars, and still — to the greatest annoyance of Amazon — groceries.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

Antonio uses Bento within his transportation business by allocating a single card to each truck driver for fuel and vehicle expenses.

With WorldFleetLog fleet management software, vehicle, driver and fuel costs can be applied to specific projects to produce detailed reports that managers can use in their business decisions.

The company used the profits from the Model S to fuel the development and manufacturing of Model 3, a more affordable electric vehicle.

For fuel taxes, we first distributed statewide vehicle miles traveled down to the county level using the number of vehicles in each county.

Using this connection, the criminals could cause the pump to register incorrect levels, creating either a false gas shortage or allowing a refueling vehicle to dangerously overfill the tanks, creating a fire hazard, or interrupt the connection to the point of sale system allowing fuel to be dispensed without registering a monetary transaction.

The poll also found strong support for other policies that would help accelerate Canada's transition to clean energy, including federal support to help provinces use more renewable electricity, switching buildings and vehicles to clean power, and measures to cut the carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel.

Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

After his departure, China said it plans to accelerate the use of alternative - energy cars, phasing out sales of fossil - fuel vehicles and turning the province into a free - trade port.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

The Web - based software helps you locate your vehicles, while also helping you get more savings from operating costs and lesser fuel use.

The vehicles in use already have shown a nearly 50 percent improvement in fuel economy.

This would have actually been a top pick for us used but unfortunately the older models (pre 2010) have a V6 that was reasonably notorious for being poor in the fuel economy department, which for a vehicle this size is a shame.

This amendment would make a largely technical change that would exempt from taxation fuel used in vehicles operated not only by a farmer, but also by someone with a close family or business relationship to the farmer.

The plan also would end the practice of offering free «green» parking permits to the owners of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles that began in 2007 under a town board resolution to encourage their use.

Under current law, fuel used in farm vehicles is exempt from the highway use tax only if those vehicles are owned and operated by the farmer.

I am not sure the NPA supports sale of contaminated fuel to be used for our vehicles because of the obvious consequences.

According to NPA, it had to use tracking devices to stop the contaminated fuel from being sold to vehicle users.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

So far, Revere America ads are running in New York (Rep. John Hall in NY - 19 was the first target) and New Hampshire, which is, of course, home to the first - in - the - nation presidential primaries, further fueling speculation that Pataki plans to use this PAC as a vehicle to launch another White House run in 2012.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

It can also be used in turbocharged and supercharged vehicles, although performance vehicles tend to experience greater carbon buildup that is hard to cut through with fuel injector cleaners.

The move is designed to increase the use of zero - emissions vehicles, or ZEVs: plug - in electrics, hybrid plug - ins and hydrogen fuel cell cars.

Funding for the RTP portion of MAP - 21 comes from a portion of the motor fuel excise tax collected across the country from non-highway recreational fuel use in snowmobiles, all - terrain vehicles, off - highway motorcycles and off - highway light trucks, and comes out of the Federal Highway Trust Fund.

While the combination therapies block off the principal pathway that cancer cells use to fuel their growth, the cells come to bypass this blockade and, like vehicles on a detour route, make use of additional pathways to continue growing and spreading.

The president, meanwhile, made a strong argument for more efficient use of gasoline through alternative vehicles and strengthened fuel economy standards.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

Reducing fuel use, emissions and «havoc» A Department of Transportation pilot project underway in Ann Arbor, Mich., has already collected 7 billion safety messages exchanged among 3,000 cars, trucks and transit buses equipped with vehicle - to - vehicle (V2V) and vehicle - to - infrastructure (V2I) technology.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

But he also advocates starting work on hydrogen technology because in the long run fuel - cell vehicles that use «clean» hydrogen would reduce emissions.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

They range from substituting dirty cookstoves with ones that use modern and clean fuels — something the State Department already is working on — to mandating diesel particle filters for vehicles.

Burned or used in fuel cells, hydrogen is an appealing option for powering future automotive vehicles for several reasons.

The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen for cleaner energy use in fuel - cell powered devices, including vehicles.

Shifts in the use of gasoline and ethanol to fuel vehicles in Sao Paulo created a unique atmospheric chemistry experiment

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

If the synthetic natural gas made by the plants were used to fuel vehicles, the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be twice as large as from gasoline - fueled vehicles.

The scenarios focused on 10 to 20 years in the future, when battery and fuel cell vehicles are expected to be in much wider use, and when solar power and electrolyzers are cost competitive with the electric grid.

Their achievement has been highly evaluated because it can be utilized, not only for a small fuel cell, but also for a large - capacity fuel cell that can be used for a vehicle.

The liquid hydrogen / oxygen (LH2 / LOX) fuel can be used to fill the tanks of manned vehicles travelling between Earth and Mars.