News tagged with fuel efficient vehicle

Fuel efficiency tops wish list of new-car buyers

Fuel efficiency was the most important car-purchase factor for 37 percent of those surveyed in the new Consumer Reports National Research Center car-owner survey.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Mechanical motion rectifier leads to better energy harvesting

(Phys.org) -- Mechanical energy is all around us, whether in the form of a vehicle's vibrations, ocean waves, or vibrating train tracks. However, much of this energy is irregular and oscillatory - for example, road bumps ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

The most fuel-efficient hybrid and electric cars

Which are the most fuel-efficient hybrid and/or all-electric cars available to consumers today?

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Vehicles of 2017 could get 54.5 mpg

One of the most powerful points in Thomas Friedman's book, "Hot, Flat and Crowded," was that when President Ronald Reagan rolled back fuel efficiency standards for American vehicles, it wasted an amount of petroleum equivalent ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 9

Antonov creates a 3-speed transmission for electric cars

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are a surprising number of designs out there for electric cars. Most of the design innovations are about creating a more efficient design. While this has meant, for the most part, that ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 23 | with audio podcast weblog

A notch above: Automakers manipulate fuel economy

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the recent announcement that the U.S. government will propose new fuel economy standards this fall, a University of Michigan study shows that automakers fine-tune vehicle fuel economy to qualify for ...

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US sets new standards for truck, bus emissions

The United States on Monday unveiled new standards for heavy-duty trucks, vans, buses and delivery vehicles, aimed at improving their fuel efficiency and reducing emissions by up to 20 percent.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Get the Honda's new CR-Z hybrid for less than $20,000

The super sporty Honda CR-Z hybrid, which will debut at Honda dealerships across the nation on Aug. 24, comes with a price tag less than $20,000. The two-door coupe comes with an MSRP of $19,200 plus a $750 ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (11) | comments 19

Honda beats Toyota to a sporty hybrid for US market

Honda unveiled a sporty new hybrid vehicle that will land in US showrooms this summer -- at least two years ahead of a similar prototype introduced by rival Toyota.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Hybrid automaker Fisker to buy shuttered GM plant

Budding US hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive will reopen a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware to build fuel-efficient, plug-in cars, the White House announced Tuesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Clemson researchers study energy savings with electric cars and IntelliDrive technology

Clemson University researchers have been awarded a $470,000 National Science Foundation grant to study making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) more efficient to reduce fossil fuel use.

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mitsubishi rolls out zero-emission electric minicar

Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. rolled out its first zero-emission electric minicar Friday, hoping to capture a slice of the fast-growing market for environmentally friendly vehicles.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 11

Fuel efficiency of vehicles on the road: Little progress since the 1920s

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vehicles on America's roads today get only about three miles more per gallon than vehicles back in 1923, University of Michigan researchers say.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 22

US to push plan to swap for fuel efficient cars

A key US lawmaker Tuesday announced agreement after White House talks on a plan to offer Americans government cash to trade in "old clunkers" -- ancient, gas guzzling cars -- for fuel efficient models.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Americans support action on global warming despite economic crisis

Even in the midst of a growing economic crisis last fall, over 90 percent of Americans said that the United States should act to reduce global warming, according to a national survey released today by researchers at Yale ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0