Rather than rush off to a charging station, I figured that I would take the opportunity to live with the Volt as a gasoline car for a couple of the nights.
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Severinsky's bright idea was to run the electric motor on a high voltage--say, 40 times the 14 volts that is standard for the electrical system in a gasoline car with a 12-volt battery.
As I calculated in my earlier Forbes article, one needs to multiply the EPA MPGe by .365 to get a number that truly compares fossil fuel use of an electric car with a traditional gasoline engine car on an apples to apples basis.
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The credit-car statements prove that Pace spent money on gasoline and car washes, but there is nothing to indicate that these expenses had a business purpose.
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If a typical electric car is driven 50, 000 miles over its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar-size gasoline-powered car driven the same number of miles.
If he drove a hybrid car that runs on gasoline and electricity, his car would emit much less carbon dioxide.
"It's like throwing gasoline on your car and expecting it to go, " Dr. Cotsarelis says.
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There's another advantage to diesels: Their resale value is two to three times that of a traditional gasoline-powered car.
We are not going to put in any gasoline in that car, so you have to get money for it yourselves.
The comparable number for a gasoline-powered car is only 18%.
The comparable number for a gasoline-powered car is just 18%.
The sheik's morning began when two of his fighters brought in a young man they had stopped at a checkpoint with seven jerry cans of gasoline in his car.
If you think that unchanging prices is a realistic assumption, just fill your car with gasoline.
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Still, people really want to enjoy their cars, and they have to buy that gasoline to enjoy the car.
Most days he's able to feel the music rejuvenate him as simply as if he were filling a car with gasoline.
Someone who is around a smoker inhales more benzene, a cause of leukemia, than he or she would inhale spending the same amount of time filling a car with gasoline.
If you look at across the whole life cycle of growing corn, making ethanol and burning it in a car, and compare that to what happens when you find oil and make gasoline and burn it in a car, you only have about 15 percent less greenhouse gas going into the air from burning ethanol than you would if you're burning gasoline.
But really, once we invest in a car, we're obligated to buy gasoline to get the value out of that car purchase.
According to the EPA, a motorist who drives the Volt exclusively on electric power will pay an estimated 4 cents per mile in energy costs, while one who never recharges the battery and runs the car exclusively on gasoline (with premium grade required) will pay 9 cents per mile.
That same car with a conventional small gasoline engine would probably get 15 kilometers per liter and use 1, 100 liters.
Now, one of the things that you need to know is that when a car, an automobile burns gasoline, about 80 per cent of the heat value of the gasoline is lost in the inefficiency of the engine.
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Your car can now run on either gasoline, or CNG(compressed natural gas, methane) at the flip of a switch.
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After the attack, Ramsey put the woman back in the car, grabbed two cans of gasoline and began driving again, it said.
An investor in the 1920s would have improved the odds by buying oil stocks rather than auto stocks: Gasoline doesn't care what make of car burns it.
Take a 20 kilometers-per-liter hybrid, which is a small car with two engines--one gasoline, one electric--that work in collaboration.
For driving, no fuel is yet greener in the proper sense of using fewer overall resources than petroleum based gasoline, and we can acknowledge that an electric car is actually coal-powered.
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She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, national police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.
The results: an all-electric car costs 2 cents per mile, while a gasoline-powered one costs 5 cents per mile.
The motor and other driveline parts for the Spark EV are made in Baltimore, but the car is assembled in South Korea along with the gasoline version.
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