Category: fuel efficiency
The German automaker puts a premium on fuel efficiency, as the compact gets a start/stop function.
NEW YORK, New York , March 23, 2008 (ENS) - The Automotive X PRIZE Foundation will award at least $10 million in privately funded prizes to teams that can engineer clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon, or its energy equivalent fuel efficiency, and win a cross-country stage race.
When Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King recently waved goodbye to his Maserati Quattroporte, he did so in favour of a relatively anonymous-looking limousine whose main claim to fame is fuel efficiency.
Statistics from the US Environmental Protection Agency show that keeping your cool can help you save on fuel. Speeding up makes your engine perform less and in the process, it makes your vehicle use up more fuel. So what do you do to make your car use fuel efficiently? Giving your accelerator even pressure makes your [...]
A measure being pushed by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels would charge vehicle owners a tax based on their car's fuel efficiency
Automakers are scrambling to find the right combination of models, process, and technology to meet the new CAFE regulations. General Motors plans to improve the fuel efficiency with the use of a small turbocharged engine...
Small cars, especially the mini or micro cars, are sure to supply unbelievable fuel efficiency. But when said small car is equipped with new technology meant to increase fuel efficiency even more, well, it takes fuel...
BOCA RATON, FL (MARKET WIRE) NuState Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: NSEH) has introduced several robust enhancements to My Driver Seat, its proprietary fuel efficiency application targeted at fuel-intensive industries. To date, Driver Seat's functionality was limited to providing real-time information, such as vehicle locations, speeds, idling times and out-of-route notifications, used to validate the performance of products designed to improve fuel efficiency or reduce harmful gas emissions as well as to modify certain inefficient driving habits that wasted fuel.
December 13, 2007 Toshiba have stunned the world with their announcement of what's pretty much the holy grail in Lithium battery technology – the Super Charge ion Battery, which recharges up to 90% of its energy in just five minutes, and has a lifespan of over 10 years.
Well Honda's got a plan. The automaker announced Tuesday that they are going into the jet airplane business. To bring the innovative small jet to market, the automaker has partnered with Piper Aircraft, a respected light plane manufacturer. Honda Jet boasts of its innovative aerodynamics for increase in fuel efficiency and performance.
