The only difference would be that the cost would then be borne directly by drivers in proportion to the number of miles they drive.
The company sells the Fluence but owns the battery, the most expensive component of an electric car and charges drivers for the miles they drive.
Progressive says its device measures how often you brake hard, how many miles you drive each day and how often you drive between midnight and 4 a.m.
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While the city has provided MetroCards and will reimburse parents for the miles they drive their children to school, it doesn't pay for the return taxi trip.
Better Place's business model was based on car owners paying a fee according to the number of miles they drive, which Mr. Agassi likened to a mobile-phone subscription.
On Wednesday she had to drive 18 miles to see him instead of the normal half-mile drive over the bridge to where he lives.
Subaru advertises the CVT as being a lifetime unit, but the owner's manual recommends changing the fluid every 30, 000 miles if you drive in "extreme" conditions.
By way of a second analogy, all else being equal, it costs less to build a car that only needs to drive 2, 000 miles, is not subject to any fuel efficiency requirements or emissions limits than it costs to build a car that can drive 200, 000 miles, gets 50 miles per gallon and emits virtually no pollutants.
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Drive 19 miles from the Nisqually entrance and you are in Paradise - literally.
Trucks and fleet vehicles may drive enough miles to return the investment for NGV.
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Why do they drive three miles to save a penny per gallon on gas?
'Get your orange juice, ' he'd say, and then we would drive 500 miles to see some accordion player.
With the Ampera he can drive 50 miles and then switch to petrol.
The next morning, tie your kayak onto the car and drive 12 miles east to the town of Seneca Falls.
You have to drive 6 miles to find the one real estate gamble in Vegas that rivals Terry Lanni's for risk.
Where I live you cannot drive 50 miles in any direction except due West without crossing a state line so much commerce is interestate.
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People travelling from Camberley to London now have to take the slow train or drive five miles to Farnborough to get a train which takes 43 minutes.
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It will also have an electric mode that allows the car to drive 12 miles or less at speeds up to 30 miles per hour without using the gas engine.
J. home at 6:30 to review accounts and sets out at 8:30 (in a charcoal gray Mercedes littered with PowerBars, bottled water and Virtus fund brochures) to drive 50 miles to Red Bank, N.
Like if you drive 85 miles an hour on your way home, I may think it's against the law, but it's not likely I'm going to be the one providing you a speeding ticket, Steve.
Todd Armstrong said he had to drive 70 miles through a blizzard last Tuesday back to his home in Soldotna after deep drifts prevented him from reaching a hotel while on a job in the port town of Homer.
The thousands if acres of protected wetlands minimized surges but loss of roof and walls allowed a foot and a half of rain in. for forty years residents have had to drive eighr miles for basic essentials including drinking water.
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Our plans says, if you get hit driving out of this event today on a hot Saturday morning in Los Angeles, you ought to be able to go the nearest emergency room not show up there and be told you got to drive 25 miles to one that your plan covers.
To drive hundreds of miles to pick up a gift or a stranded partner.
Drive another 6 miles through the countryside to another Wright house-turned-museum, Kentuck Knob (www.kentuckknob.com).
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In fact, some are done from a desk miles away or after a drive past the property.
For the first 35 miles, the Volt can drive gas- and tailpipe-emissions free using a full charge of electricity.
Providers are in high demand and sometimes have to drive hundreds of miles to see children, further adding to the cost.
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