Today, the company is selling expensive cars to the wealthy that almost replace gas-powered vehicles entirely.
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Natural gas-powered vehicles are already in existence, most notably powering city buses for low-emission public transportation.
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Also this year, Honda became the first to offer a natural gas-powered vehicle to the public.
Not to mention that the diesel weighs 320 pounds more than the base gas-powered Cayenne Tiptronic.
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This discourages investors in the flexible, gas-powered generation needed to provide backup for windless, cloudy days.
The record speed for these electric bikes is 120 mph, while gas-powered motorcycles break records above 200mph.
But gas could play a bigger role: there is a third more gas-powered than coal-fired capacity available.
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The gas-powered version, which makes 189 hp, goes on sale in January with the diesel following midyear.
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The Segway, that marvel of two-wheeled balance and electric mobility, may someday solve America's dependence on gas-powered engines.
Top speed is limited to 155 mph, whereas the gas-powered SLS AMG tops out at 197 mph.
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Further, real technological progress has been made on natural-gas-powered heavy vehicles, such as line-haul tractors, garbage trucks and buses.
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Only a gas-powered generator on the roof of the aquarium's hospital continued working.
Electric motorbikes, like their conventional gas-powered counterparts, generally sell better than cars here.
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Meanwhile, auto makers are proving there's still plenty of potential in the gas-powered engine to meet customer's fuel-efficiency demands.
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Or if you do, prepare for nightmares of being chased at 18-miles an hour by a gas-powered steely automaton.
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Persistently high oil prices would clearly lead to substitution (electric cars, natural-gas-powered trucks) but the transition costs could be significant.
Autocar just got its hands on the gas-powered T.25 and battery-powered T.27, and reports a pleasant experience with the three-seaters.
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As environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg notes, manufacturing and charging electric cars over their life cycle can produce more carbon than small, gas-powered vehicles.
Chesapeake Energy has just announced it will be investing in natural gas fueling stations to ease the convenience of natural gas-powered automobiles.
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While many think of Ford as the inventor of the automobile, he was certainly not the first to assemble a gas-powered car.
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According to Natural Gas Vehicles for America, about 40 percent of trash trucks sold in the U.S. last year were natural-gas-powered.
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The SLS AMG Coupe Electric Drive is a pure electric supercar that has nearly the same performance as the gas-powered SLS AMG.
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It has the largest fleet of natural gas-powered buses in the world.
Revving up a gas-powered Porsche is more like walking up 32 stories.
Clifford says it will be priced competitively with gas-powered cars, and will be able to fully charge its battery in just five minutes.
Calpine has agreed to let him build a pilot greenhouse next to one of its natural-gas-powered generating plants probably the one in Dighton, Massachusetts.
The 2013 Volt can travel an average of 38 miles on one full electric charge before its onboard gas-powered electric generator seamlessly switches on.
In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.
Current electric motorcycle riders likely have one if not several gas-powered bikes already, but they appreciate the technology and eco-friendliness of an electric motorcycle, Hurst says.
Electricity will be the primary power source of the car, although when that runs low a gas-powered mode will enable driving for hundreds of additional miles.
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