Sentences with phrase «vehicles than ethanol»

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Brazil is renowned for being a world leader in ethanol use and this telling statistic bears that out: According to Petrobras CFO Almir Barbassa ethanol now powers more than 50 % of all the light vehicles in the nation.

Mid-range gasoline - ethanol blends (greater than 10 percent and less than 85 percent ethanol) should only be used in vehicles approved for their use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The researchers found that using biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same amount of crops to produce ethanol.

The method would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than turning the crops into ethanol and using that ethanol in vehicles with internal combustion engines.

A new study shows that burning crops such as corn and switchgrass to create electricity to power electric vehicles would actually yield more transportation miles than turning those crops into ethanol.

Testing by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC), which has been the gold standard in fuels and vehicle research for the better part of a century, determined that millions of vehicles on the road today could suffer engine damage from using fuels containing higher levels of ethanol than for which they were designed.

That means RFS mandates could push higher ethanol concentrations into gasoline than today's vehicles or refueling infrastructure were designed to accommodate.

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

In addition to adding the solar pipeline data to Open NY, NYSERDA has added U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Alternative Fuels Data Center data on more than 20,000 public alternative vehicle fueling stations nationwide, including almost 1,000 biodiesel, compressed natural gas, E85 (ethanol) and electric charging stations in New York State.

Although corn ethanol as modeled here emits marginally less GHGs than does gasoline, the combined climate and air quality impacts are greater than those from gasoline vehicles.

These vehicles have been sold for more than a decade — more than 15 million are driven today — but up to now have not run on ethanol very often.

Researchers found that burning biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same crops to produce ethanol.

converting all gasoline using vehicles to 100 % corn - based ethanol would require almost 7x the current acreage in corn, and 30 % more than the current total cropland of the US.»

Brian Dodge, just for comparison and context, converting all gasoline using vehicles to 100 % corn - based ethanol would require almost 7x the current acreage in corn, and 30 % more than the current total cropland of the US.

Alternative fueled vehicles are powered by natural gas, propane, ethanol, or electricity, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum fueled vehicles.

Across vehicle types and different crops, this offset averages more than 100 % larger for the bioelectricity than for the ethanol pathway.

Flexible - fuel vehicles: Vehicles designed to run on more than one type of fuel, most commonly gasoline, ethanol, or a blend of the two.