Providing new vehicles, especially more compact and fuel efficient passenger cars, has helped with sales too.
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The Safe And Fuel Efficient Driving Scheme will pay for the training of 200 instructors to teach advanced van driving techniques - and will then fund lessons for 3, 500 drivers.
When powered by gasoline, the C-MAX Energi uses the all-new 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine - powerful and fuel efficient and among the most advanced non-turbocharged four-cylinder powertrains Ford has ever offered.
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And it shows with the company's Ecomagination line of green and energy-efficient products, which include windmills and fuel-efficient turbine engines.
Ford, in particular, is moving toward smaller and more fuel efficient cars from larger SUVs and trucks.
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Part of that growth, to be sure, was due to overall growth in demand, but a big part of it I suspect is due to the switch from less fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly unconventional vehicles, to more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly passenger cars, trucks and buses.
They'll be jobs building the wind turbines and solar panels and fuel-efficient cars that will lower our dependence on foreign oil, and modernizing our costly health care system that will save us billions of dollars and countless lives.
Changes in gasoline prices also change the relative prices of the most fuel-efficient cars and the least fuel-efficient cars.
Rising fuel prices are encouraging consumers to move toward smaller, more environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient cars.
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Some of these folks want to dismiss the promise of solar power and wind power and fuel-efficient cars.
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Is it a coincidence that sales of hybrid, electrified and fuel-efficient vehicles increased as gas prices trended upwards?
Now, he's been able to buy better and more fuel-efficient equipment and says the drilling hasn't caused any problems.
Instead, Lincoln now is aiming at the premium segments that are most vibrant these days: smaller and fuel-efficient yet well-appointed sedans and CUVs.
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Ask the Chrysler workers near Kokomo -- (applause) -- who were brought on to make sure the newest high-tech transmissions and fuel-efficient engines are made in America.
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And today, the U.S. auto industry has come roaring back. (Applause.) And, by the way, the cars they're making are better and more fuel efficient than ever.
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Hybrids need to be equipped with larger battery packs, smaller and more fuel-efficient engines and a "two-mode system" that uses a pair of electric motors that propel the car at lower speeds.
The problem is that while Boeing intends to make 50% of its 787 Dreamliner out of hardened plastics -- and therefore lighter and more fuel efficient -- Airbus has been planning to to build the A350 with aluminum alloys.
And that's why we've got to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes investing in more biofuels and more fuel-efficient vehicles, and more solar power and more wind power, and more people going back to work building cars and homes and businesses that are more energy efficient than the ones that we've got right now.
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The old planes were noisy and were not fuel efficient, but they were serviceable and tough.
The fierce battle for car buyers in Brazil could influence other markets before long, including mature ones like the U.S. Sluggish economies and rising fuel prices are prompting more consumers around the globe to seek smaller, less expensive and more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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The global trend of high fuel prices have led to an increase in demand for fuel efficient cars, and Ford will ensure its cars are fitted with fuel-efficient engines ranging from Ecoboost to hybrid and diesel to cash in on this demand.
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For years, it has raced ahead of the Premier Padmini, a roomier but relatively unwieldy and less fuel-efficient car modeled on a 1951 Fiat, and the Fiat Uno, which sold only 8, 500 units in the past year.
The company recorded its best monthly results since May 2007, at the peak of the housing bubble, and noted continued demand for fuel efficient vehicle and acceleration in truck sales, which grew 6%.
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Consumers should see an increase in fuel savings (over the lifetime of their cars) as newer and more fuel-efficient cars become available starting with the 2017 car models.
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They serve many of the fastest growing population centers and provide a fuel-efficient, environmentally responsible and safe mode of freight transportation.
Gasoline and diesel fuel are spectacularly efficient in energy and economic terms.
If their effort succeeds, automakers would have to make vehicles much cleaner and more fuel-efficient in the future.
The engine parts manufactured here in Petersburg will go into next-generation planes that are lighter, faster, and more fuel-efficient.
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And the hottest strategic trend in automaking--led by Ford Motor, Nissan and China--is making lighter, safer and more fuel-efficient cars.
Ford thinks it may have a hit on its hands with its forthcoming Edge crossover, a sleek car-based and relatively fuel-efficient sport utility.
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