Fuel-centric companies no longer can afford to apply old approaches or logic to buy and manage their fuel.
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"As there is no carbon in the fuel, hydrogen-powered vehicles produce no carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide or particulate emissions, " said Wrightbus business development director Jonathan Poynton.
All of Kathmandu's taxis are compact, fuel-efficient Maruti cars imported from India. (Fuel shortage or no, Chaudhary prefers to be chauffeur-driven in a gas-guzzling Suzuki SUV to his seven-story group headquarters on the site of a former electronics factory).
The train only has to stop to change crews and fuel up--there is no sitting around in railyards waiting for a right train, no jostling of the produce as cars are hitched and unhitched.
Existing literature provides information on health- and work-related costs, but with the exception of fuel costs, no published academic research offers insight into consumer-related costs, such as clothing, air travel, automobile size or furniture.
In the press release, the company noted that the updated guidance assumed stable fuel prices and no further weather-related shocks.
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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner combines a 50 percent carbon-composite structure with advanced engines, aerodynamics and other improvements to save one-fifth of its fuel at no extra cost.
Mr. PHIL LAMPERT (Director, National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition): It was a tremendous success in that before that, there were no alternative-fuel vehicles manufactured in this country.
The loan guarantee program discussed in the memo allows the Energy Department to help finance projects such as electric transmission systems and bio-fuel initiatives that begin construction no later than September 30, 2011.
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Hillary Clinton will be in New York City for three days this week to talk about education and children's health, give awards to DESMOND TUTU and KATIE COURIC, raise money for Democrats--and no doubt fuel more speculation about her plans.
The manifesto confirms its ambitions on tax: for a lower 10p starting rate of income tax, for a cut from 8% to 5% in value-added tax on fuel, and for no increase in the 23p basic rate nor the 40p higher rate of income tax.
There's no shortage of liquidity to fuel the economy--and the stock market.
Clean, silent, (well, OK, a high-pitched whistling sound), uses no fuel whatsoever, except hydrogen, the most plentiful element on the planet, and emits only water vapor.
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No automaker has yet to offer a fuel-cell-powered car for sale to customers, although Honda has said it plans to lease a number of the fuel-cell cars to customers as soon as 2008.
And it is no more plain-speaking, for on fuel with one breath it claims the tax must be high on environmental grounds and with another it justifies it because of spending on health and schools.
The prime minister had been warned there could be a no-confidence vote if he did not lower fuel prices.
The plan includes no-objection certificates from lenders and others like fuel suppliers, as well as payment of overdue salaries, Mr. Mallya said.
While automobile engines generally fare better on mid-level ethanol fuel blends than small engines, they are by no means immune to those problems.
From the driver's seat, my only complaint is that there is no distance-to-empty display near the digital fuel gauge.
When Seattle resident Elisa Davidson(ph) first bought her 2000 Ford Taurus, she had no idea it was a so-called flex-fuel car.
First, fusion research failed to progress as quickly as expected, so there were no power stations producing streams of surplus plasma to fuel fusion-torch recyclers.
Others are offering continuously variable transmissions (CVT), which have no traditional gears but keep the engine at its most fuel-efficient RPM across a wide range of speeds.
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And the fast-breeder type of nuclear reactor in which plutonium was used as fuel is no longer economic.
Even full-size pickup trucks are showing significant gains in fuel economy these days with no sacrifice in utility, with the Ford F150 leading the way with its Ecoboost turbocharged V6 engine.
When co-generating heat and electricity, solid oxide fuel cells can reach combined efficiencies upwards of 85%, which is excellent, but no word yet whether or not the Bloom fuel cell will co-generate heat.
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Each fuel assembly is typically used in the reactor for 4 to 6 years, after which most of the fuel it contains is spent, and the uranium dioxide is no longer cost-efficient at producing energy.
The report said that during the crash-landing "a significant amount of fuel leaked from the aircraft but there was no fire".
The car's styling forgave a multitude of other sins, including a penny-pinched interior, mediocre fuel economy and a rather heavy, trembling, fundamentally unathletic chassis that no amount of spring rates nor summer tires could mediate.
But no matter how good it is otherwise, the C-Max keeps bringing the conversation back to fuel efficiency.
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And if you want to talk about market dynamics at the pump, then look no further than the increase in demand for hybrid cars, which can increase fuel efficiency over other mid-sized cars with the help of an electric engine.
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