Ministers know they need to switch the burden of tax from fuel to direct charges such as motorway tolls or urban congestion charging, but fear voters' reaction.
Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
As with the Optima, the Regal offers a choice of two direct fuel-injected four-cylinder engines.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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The SLK350 comes powered by a new direct fuel-injected 3.5-liter V6 engine that produces a peppy 302 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque.
Its supercharged and direct fuel-injected 3.0-liter V6 engine generates 310 horsepower and a lively 325 pound-feet of torque that ensures strong launches and plenty of passing power.
Cars like the Buick Encore, Fiat 500 and Lincoln MKZ, meanwhile, improve mileage through direct fuel injection, which injects gas directly into the combustion chamber in extremely precise amounts.
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Once recipients have bank accounts, India can follow the likes of Brazil and replace easily stolen benefits in kind, such as rations of cheap food and fuel, with direct cash transfers.
Engines are getting more powerful as they get more fuel-efficient, thanks to turbochargers and direct-injection fuel systems.
Mainly, the MRJ is some 20 percent more fuel efficient than its direct competitors.
Miniaturized direct methanol fuel cells are different batteries in that they create power instead of simply storing it.
Fumio Ueno of Toshiba says that once developed, the uses of miniaturized direct methanol fuel cells have endless possibilities.
France's fishermen, another grumpy lot, came off best from his tax package, aided not by direct cuts in their fuel costs, but by a special reduction to the heavy social taxes they pay as employers.
"Feedback from the airlines last year indicated they were very grateful the military airspace was available -- it allowed them to fly more direct routes and save time and fuel, " FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said.
Mr. ERON SHOSTECK (Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers): Carbon dioxide is a direct byproduct of a vehicle's fuel combustion.
Direct controls on emissions, for instance through vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, are being tightened around the world.
It adopts the Atkinson cycle and D-4S direct injection technology to optimise both the power and fuel-efficiency benefits of Lexus Hybrid Drive.
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The truth is that when crude prices drop and our fuel margins dwindle, our chemicals margins rise--not in direct proportion, mind you, but sufficiently to cushion the blow.
Indeed the direct pipeline from the Essar refinery meant that during recent fuel blockades when motorists and public services were hit, the airport received an uninterrupted flow of fuel.
There are also direct rivals to new nuclear plants, such as fossil-fuel plants with carbon sequestration that can provide baseload power.
The third option is to direct part or all of the revenues raised by above-inflation increases in fuel duties to public- and road-transport improvements.
The author neglects to mention the tens of billions of dollars in direct subsidies, grants, tax breaks etc. that are given to the fossil fuel industry each year.
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