California scientists seeking to make
vehicle fuel from little more than sunshine and water are getting closer to their goal after finding a way to avoid rust in the semiconductor materials they use.
Paul Dietz - SASOL in South Africa has been producing
vehicle fuel from coal for decades - it's expensive, but not un-doable.
Not exact matches
In November 2012, Hyundai and Kia conceded they overstated
fuel economy by at least a mile per gallon on
vehicles after the EPA found errors for 13 Hyundai and Kia models
from the 2011 to 2013 model years.
Still, their financial struggles are compounded by a tepid market for alternative -
fuel vehicles, as well as by increased competition
from more established automotive players.
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..
Maybe algae will scale up
from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million
vehicles via
fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.
p Firstly, it would simply be a new member service which, coupled with discounted
fuel offers, could help the club increase its membership
from its existing 500,000
vehicles — if growth is a target.
Honda established a division late last year to develop electric
vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen
fuel cell
vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030,
from about 5 percent now.
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.
But given the negative issues surrounding Uber,
from accusations of misogyny to a legal battle against Google, the accident negatively
fueled debates regarding the safety of autonomous
vehicles.
The company used the profits
from the Model S to
fuel the development and manufacturing of Model 3, a more affordable electric
vehicle.
Given 85 per cent of Caltex earnings are
from fuel - related sales and refining margins, «even the smallest level of electric
vehicle penetration would have a material impact on earnings,» the fund wrote on its website in October.
Some of these costs, such as energy for our facilities and
vehicles,
fuel surcharges
from our transportation providers, insurance costs and enhanced security levels at our facilities, have escalated beyond our normal operating costs.
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.
These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into
vehicle fuel, are extracted
from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.
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.
The US government stole billions or trillions
from non-homeowners, children (read «stealing
from children «-RRB- and taxpayers to
fuel a housing bubble through
vehicles such as:
Imagine being able to know where you
vehicles are, what your drivers are doing, be able to save a lot
from fuel consumption and other areas, or locate a missing truck or lorry.
The Web - based software helps you locate your
vehicles, while also helping you get more savings
from operating costs and lesser
fuel use.
-- «Calpers rejects plea to divest
from carmakers over emissions,» by Bloomberg's Kate Smith: «The nation's largest pension system has rejected a call to divest
from vehicle manufacturers that follow the president's agenda to roll back
fuel efficiency standards, according to an April 20 letter.
lorries
from conventional diesel
fuelled vehicles to BIO LPG Autogas.
He said if users of private
vehicles can't afford to buy
fuel to service their carsdue to the introduction of new taxes, nothing stops them
from joining «trotro» (commercial cars) or public transport to work and other places they so desire.
«Reallocating a few pence
from existing
fuel duty might prove an equitable way of turning the tide, as could previous calls for
Vehicle Excise Duty to be redirected to local roads
from 2021.»
The hypersonic
vehicle would take oxygen
from the atmosphere rather than carry it in the form of
fuel oxidants.
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.
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.
Connecticut truckers, food stores and energy suppliers are asking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow commercial
vehicles carrying food,
fuel and emergency supplies an exemption
from his storm - related ban on trucks along I - 84.
Dr Shirvani, an Austrian and Iranian national, is an engineer by training and has earned her Ph.D. in
Fuel and
Vehicle Technologies
from the University of Oxford and her Master's degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development
from the University of Cambridge.
According to NPA, it had to use tracking devices to stop the contaminated
fuel from being sold to
vehicle users.
There has been much recent media speculation on the issue but the messages are confused ranging
from «not much change», to various charging schemes, to new private toll roads and altering
vehicle excise duty /
fuel duty.
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).
Recent events include trips and falls
from vehicles, truck operation,
fuel efficiency and the Road Safety Act.
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.
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.
Before leaded
fuel was phased out
from road
vehicles last century, the atmosphere contained substantially more leaded particulates than today, says Cziczo.
The Chinese government hopes to avoid an auto - driven environmental apocalypse both by mandating increasing
fuel efficiency but also by pushing these domestic
vehicle manufacturers for homegrown hybrid, electric and
fuel - cell
vehicles under its «863» program — deriving its name
from its launch back in March 1986.
In Brazil — a country of 188 million people with the world's 14th largest economy — about 40 percent of the
fuel burned in passenger
vehicles is ethanol derived
from sugarcane.
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
An idled program for
vehicles driven by
fuel cells is gaining new impetus
from new programs at the U.S. Department of Energy
This comes as automakers
from around the world are struggling to make low - emissions
vehicles scale up in China, the United States and other markets where programs and regulations are calling for massive gains in
fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years.
And while CNG
vehicles would generate emissions
from their tailpipes, the Argonne team believes that their overall emissions footprint would be smaller than that of an electric
vehicle drawing power
from the fossil -
fuel - based electric grid.
Steps should include the continuation of loan guarantees and cost - sharing programs for building pilot biofuel plants, support for flex -
fuel vehicles that can burn both gasoline and biofuels, and R&D incentives
from the departments of energy and agriculture.
«Because platinum is a rare metal, a lot of the expense that goes into manufacturing hybrid
vehicles is coming
from the platinum needed to catalyze
fuel cells,» said Paul Thibado, a professor of physics at the University of Arkansas.
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.
Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish
from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil -
fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and
vehicles.
California is aiming to increase
vehicles»
fuel efficiency by reducing energy loss
from deformed tires.
Next Steps The Obama administration recently announced
fuel economy standards that require the average new
vehicle to go
from 32.9 miles per gallon today to 35.5 mpg by 2016 and 54.5 mpg by 2025.
As it has for more than a century, air pollution in America largely arises
from power plants, industries,
vehicles and other sources of
fuel burning.
As city - dwellers and tourists switch
from riding fossil
fuel - powered
vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.
Boosting average
fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars
from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26
vehicles available today that would do that, ranging
from compact cars to sport utility
vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.