Sentence examples for higher fuel efficiency from inspiring English sources

And new technologies that promise much higher fuel efficiency at minor expense, like hybrid gas-electric cars, are already available.

While taxes make driving more expensive, higher fuel efficiency makes it cheaper, thereby increasing the demand for car travel.

When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars.

Higher fuel efficiency may account for the relatively strong level of recent auto sales, despite higher energy prices.

By the end of the decade, more than a million cars and trucks will use hybrid propulsion to get higher fuel efficiency and lower exhaust emissions.

The motor combines direct injection for higher fuel efficiency with additional turbo-charged power generated by using waste exhaust gas energy.

And he backs higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

Leaders in both houses predicted action on a scaled-down package of energy measures before Congress breaks for Christmas, including some form of higher fuel-efficiency requirements for cars and trucks and incentives for alternative fuels.

The Republican National Committee responded with a news release, headlined, "The Boston Fog Rolls Over Kerry's Chevy Suburban," noting Mr. Kerry's support for higher fuel-efficiency standards and pointing out that the Suburban gets 16 miles per gallon.

In 2009, in one of his first acts in office, he ordered the Department of Transportation to implement higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars; in 2012, the rules were finalized, and they are his single most significant climate-change policy.

While opposing a binding cap on emissions, either domestically or globally, he has supported some mandatory measures, including increases in renewable fuels like ethanol and higher fuel-efficiency standards, efforts his administration once resisted.