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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In Germany biogas is already being fed into into the national gas grid and in Sweden and Spain, vehicles including buses are run on biogas, but they still use an awful lot of oil overall and most of the small number of gas-powered vehicles are run on petroleum-gas.
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It uses four electric motors one at each corner to mimic the amazing performance of the gas-powered SLS AMG.
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Another sensible step would be for the government to encourage the manufacture of big trucks powered by natural gas.
It has the largest fleet of natural gas-powered buses in the world.
The Fiat 500 EV's likely price was indirectly revealed, too, by the company chief's assertion that it'll retail for about three times the cost of its gas-powered version.
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It may seem surprising, but Cummins has been early to embrace the green movement, building itself up to become the biggest maker of natural gas-powered engines in the world.
Of the seven full-size, heavy-duty diesel pickup trucks Vincentric studied, the Ford F-350 is the only one with five year ownership costs that are lower than that of its gas-powered equivalent.
Like the Segway, electric bicycles still leave riders vulnerable to the gas-powered masses of steel and glass that fly by on high-speed roads, and require wearing a helmet--a deal breaker for many style-conscious commuters.
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.
But when it comes to reducing pollution-causing emissions, electric vehicles have a lot of competition from cars powered by natural gas.
Many in the government dream of an economic autarky, powered by gas.
According to Ford and Toyota, the jointly-developed new hybrid powertrain will offer better fuel efficiency while offering the same capabilities like towing capacity expected of a regular gas-powered truck.
Vehicle Production Group, which planned to build thousands of wheelchair-accessible vans powered by natural gas, has called it quits.
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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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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.
In the interim, a lot of people (including me) will have a lot of fun blowing away gas-powered dinosaurs at the stoplight with their electric cars.
Generalised subsidies are being replaced with carefully directed ones: for instance, some 1.5m of the poorest families can get a free tortilla ration by swiping cards through an electronic reader at their local tortilleria, where previously the height of technology was the gas-powered tortilla-squashing machine.
Only a gas-powered generator on the roof of the aquarium's hospital continued working.
Half action-RPG, half real-time strategy, the game is the latest brainchild of Chris Taylor, the man behind Gas Powered Games.
But there are at least two major obstacles hindering wider adoption of plug-in electric vehicles: the premium that drivers will have to pay for an electric car compared with a gas-powered vehicle and the limited number of electric car charging stations nationwide.
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It also facilitates the delivery of other online information, such as real-time gas prices, weather forecasts and points of interest search powered by Google Local Search.
The hand, which is said to be a "feat of microscale mechanical systems (MEMS), " measures just one millimeter across when closed into a fist, features four "fingers" made of six silicon wafers each, and touts four gas-powered balloons acting as the muscles at the wafers' joints.
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And the economic boom being powered, in some regions of the country, by cheap natural gas (which I cover in the current issue of Fortune) makes investment in clean-energy technology an even more courageous effort.
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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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.
What I love about Tesla is that they were the first company to prove that for a certain segment of the market, an electric car can be better than its gas-powered cousin.
Over the next three decades he dabbled in a variety of new technologies--electric storage batteries, steam- and gas-powered automobiles and a wireless telegraph--but after his death in 1911 the company focused again on temperature controls.
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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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.
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