A well-inflated tire decreases the rolling resistance and thereby increases efficiency. Driving on tires with air pressure at 50kPA lower than it should be decreases fuel efficiency by 2 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in urban and suburban areas.
Increasing the fuel economy of our nation's vehicles is vital to addressing rising gas prices and health and environmental risks of unchecked global warming.But for transportation to truly become a climate solution,we must also reduce the heat-trapping>>>
Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain, if elected, wants to offer a $300 million prize for the invention of a better vehicle battery for plug-in hybrid or all-electric cars. He also wants a $5000 tax credit to those who buy a zero carbon-emission car
The Toyota Corporation intends to develop a plug-in hybrid vehicle for its demonstration fleet by 2010, according to an announcement made by Chief Executive Officer Katsuaki Watanabe.
At the 2008 FORTUNE Brainstorm Green Conference, Think Global, a Norwegian company that owns the electric TH!NK vehicle, announced a partnership with energy giant General Electric.
The current advertisement on Care2 for Ethos gasoline treatment designed to "improve gas mileage by 20%" is nothing but a rip off according to the Better Business Bureau. Ask Care2 to remove the ad and don't buy it!
Hybrids and electric vehicles can now use lithium ion batteries to become V2G plug-ins, either as original equipment or as supplementary aftermarket power modules.
But at Toyota, hybrids have been doing well. In March, a month in which total sales fell 3.4 percent from March 2007, Toyota sold 31,552 hybrids, up 19 percent from the year before. Sales of Lexus light trucks rose slightly
As many have begun to realise, Bush and his right wingers do not run the evangelicals. Evangelicals belong to Christ not to a right wing political movement.
It gets 200 km(124 miles) on a full tank of hydrogen and with a 40 percent power increase over the gasoline. There is also a 30 kilowatt electric motor is incorporated into the drive train, right up in the front of the car
