Sentence examples for backup gas from inspiring English sources
The vehicle's range is about 100 kilometers (62 miles) shorter than the U.S. version of the Nissan Leaf (73 miles) but longer than the electric-only battery of the Chevy Volt (30 miles, but with a backup gas engine).
But unlike earlier, all-electric cars, the new hybrids could handle longer commutes; the Volt is designed to travel 600 miles using its backup gas tank to charge the battery.
Until its demise, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) ignored reports showing that solar, wind, storage and backup gas can produce the same output as Hinkley Point a decade earlier and at least 25% cheaper, saving consumers £720m a year for 35 years.
Unless it has a backup gas engine, an electric vehicle will probably be a second car.
"Once you take away that backup gas, you are dependent on one fuel, and that should not happen," Powers said.
Most current used Volts have an all-electric range of 38 miles, but when coupled with a backup gas-powered engine, its total range is 382 miles.
But at the moment renewables need fossil-fuel-fired capacity for backup, and gas is the fuel of choice.
However, on average, electricity from a solar array in the United States is still about twice as expensive as electricity from a power plant fired by natural gas and that's not accounting for the cost of backup natural gas generation, batteries, or other storage systems needed with intermittent sources such as solar and wind.
The "when" part of the problem means that wind turbines have to be paired up with either backup natural gas turbines or some kind of power storage.
Options are multiple, dictated by levels of alarm and income: Spend $25,000 to $50,000 or more (potentially much more) on a steel and reinforced-concrete mini-bunker, complete with high-tech communication and ventilation systems, backup generator, gas masks, "moon suits," beds and enough food and drugs to last for months.
Hundreds of thousands of pump-impaired drivers cause endless backups at gas stations, requiring drivers to call the Division of Motor Vehicles for appointments to fill their tanks.
