Feb 10, 2022
A bus may have only a couple of passengers, especially at the beginning or end of its route. But let's also take fuel efficiency into account.
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A bus may have only a couple of passengers, especially at the beginning or end of its route. But let's also take fuel efficiency into account.
Kia KMS-4, 1999
The beautiful sporty looking car that combined the front mask like Italian classic sculptures and stream-lined silhouette in side-view.
NEW YORK - In an auto show full of production cars and "world debuts" of new trim levels, Kia provided a refreshing break from the monotonous parade of cars that money can actually buy. Called the KMS-4, the Kia concept coupe is tantalizing in its potential.
Interestingly, Kia bills the KMS-4 as an economy car. Roughly the size of a Mitsubishi Eclipse, the coupe comes with a not-so-outlandish, 2.0-liter, DOHC four-cylinder engine. The engine develops 151 horsepower at 6500 rpm and 114 foot-pounds of torque at 4500 rpm. With a curb weight of less than 2,000 pounds, performance might be impressive. Sticking to the econo-car theme, the KMS-4 even comes with low-cost drum brakes for the rear wheels.
A few concept-car features keep the KMS-4 a fantasy. With an all-glass roof, Kia gives new meaning to the term "greenhouse." How to bring this car to production? Replace the glass roof with traditional steel, lose the costly Ferrari-like paddle shift levers and GPS navigation system, and you’ve got a surprisingly attainable car.
If parent company Hyundai has any plans to expand the Kia brand, the KMS-4 is the perfect move. Futuristic styling, compact engine for good fuel economy, four-wheel independent suspension for sporty handling: all qualities that would make the KMS-4 sell. Direct competition for the Hyundai Tiburon is the reason it won’t.
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oh. since my next comic is taking forever, and i just remembered this existed, here’s a comic i made a few years ago for college applications. my dream college was super environmentally conscious so i was totally pandering here. but im really proud of it. and i got in! and fuel efficient transportation is really neat. you should do it.
(i draw people as little bird guys… idk if ive shared that yet lmao)
i think the “missing: lost my whale :(“ poster might have been in reference to sam from psychonauts. this has been a long standing obsession.
Move marks president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and support for cleaner-running vehicles
Lucy Campbell at The Guardian:
Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards, significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. It marks the US president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and federal support for cleaner-running vehicles and renewable energy. Burning gasoline is a significant contributor to global heating and transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
“We are officially terminating Joe Biden’s ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually, Cafe standards that imposed expensive restrictions,” Trump said in an Oval Office announcement, flanked by top auto executives including the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis. “It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices, combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate.” The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (Cafe) standards, first established in 1975, set the average fuel economy targets for new vehicles and have been tightened over the years to make vehicles more fuel-efficient.
The Biden administration proposed modest increases to the requirements for the vehicles most Americans drive as part of a push to promote electric vehicles and address the climate emergency. Joe Biden required automakers to increase the fuel efficiency of passenger cars and light trucks to about 50 miles per gallon by 2031. Trump is now rolling that back, loosening regulatory pressure on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and trucks. The standards proposed by him would require cars to get about 34 miles to the gallon by 2031, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Wednesday’s announcement marks the latest action by the Trump administration to reverse Biden-era policies that encouraged cleaner energy vehicles, including relaxing auto tailpipe emissions rules, repealing fines for automakers that don’t meet federal mileage standards and terminating consumer credits of up to $7,500 for electric vehicle purchases.
Trump announces that he’ll repeal the Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for gas-powered cars and trucks.
Pending regulations under review by the Biden administration could greatly increase the number of electric vehicles sold in the U.S. But if
When I first bought my car back in April I never let it dip below half a tank. Since I moved in September, I usually wait until it's below a quarter before filling up. Last week I let it run down to about an eighth, and it took a hair over 14 gallons to fill it up completely which means it has a 16 gallon tank, more or less. When I got it, I lived in an area dominated by highways; I would regularly get it up to 60 mph going to a from work, and it got decent gas mileage at 30 per gallon. Now that I live in a dense city with stop lights every 10 feet, I'm lucky to get 20. On the dashboard above the radio is a little LCD screen that tells me my fuel economy and how many miles I have left until I run empty. I've been tracking those figures against my odometer since mid-May, and it's not good.
When I got it, I would regularly outperform expectations. Say I drove 100 miles, the fuel range indicator would only go down 90, meaning I traveled 10 miles further than it said I should based on the amount of fuel I used. This slowly crept down, 10 miles better, 7 miles, 5, 3, for a while it was dead even, but since July I've been in the read. I'll drive 100 miles, and the fuel range meter will go down 120 or 130. Doing the math, driven distance over fuel range decrease, my best performance was 120% efficient, and the worst was 65%. Think about that. 65%, less than two-thirds, which means for every 100 miles I drive my fuel tank thinks I'm driving over 150! I'm burning through it like it's nothing!
I don't know what kind of math is going down under the hood, but my maximum fuel range has been dropping too. In April, a full tank of gas could supposedly get me 396 miles; more than that, actually, given my net positive fuel efficiency. Filling it up last week, same tank, same 16 gallons, it's telling me I can only get 323 miles. 396 miles on 16 gallons, the computer thought I was getting 24.75 miles per gallon regardless of how good it actually was. 323 miles is 20.1875 mpg; the indicator regularly dips below 20 when I'm stuck in traffic, and I can actually watch it tick down in increments of 0.1 when I'm at particularly congested redlights.
Sooner or later, it's going to get to the point where I'm less than half efficient. I'll drive 100 miles, and it'll use the fuel for 200 or more. I'll be lucky to get 250 miles on a full tank, which at present time would cost me $50 to fill from empty. Gas prices were higher this summer, $3.80-ish, got down to just below $3.00 even in October, right now they're hovering around $3.20 - $3.30, and as we enter the presidential election I can see it exploding up to $4.00 or more again, over $60 for a full tank.
My car's a 2007 with 132,000 miles on it, so I guess this sort of degradation is to be expected, but it means that it's going to crap out on me in a couple of years. Once I start my new job I'll have to build back up my savings so I can buy something halfway decent. It took me a year and a half to save up $10,000 when I lived with my parents, but now I'm out on my own and have rent and medical bills (I make so little money that I get a tax credit from the IRS that completely covers my insurance, but it's the cheapest plan on the market with next to no coverage, so every doctor visit is astronomical), so I expect to be stuck with my clunker until 2025 at the earliest. I just hope it'll last that long.
For new cars and trucks released in 2017, carbon dioxide emissions reached a record low, and mileage per gallon reached an all time high, according an U.S. Environmental Protect Agency (EPA) report released Wednesday.
Estimated emissions and fuel economy for model years since 1975. 2018 projections are shown with the red dots. EPA
Excerpt from this EcoWatch story:
For new cars and trucks released in 2017, carbon dioxide emissions reached a record low, and mileage per gallon reached an all time high, according an U.S. Environmental Protect Agency (EPA) report released Wednesday.
The findings are leading many environmental advocates to ask, if Obama-era fuel economy standards seem to be working, why roll them back, as Trump's EPA has proposed?
"The EPA's report demonstrates that standards are working to bring us cleaner, more efficient cars," Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Clean Vehicles and Fuels Group Director Luke Tonachel wrote. "There's no reason to turn back. The Trump administration's plan to rollback the standards will cost Americans more at the pump and make us all suffer from increased vehicle pollution. We should keep the current strong standards and look forward to more positive progress reports in the future."
The EPA data shows that the average real world carbon dioxide emissions rate for new vehicles released in model year 2017 fell by 3 grams per mile (g/mi) to a record low of 357 g/mi. Fuel efficiency climbed 0.2 miles per gallon (mpg) to 24.9. Since 2004, both fuel economy and carbon dioxide emissions have improved in 11 out of 13 years.
Manufacturers expect to do even better in 2018, lowering emissions to 348 g/mi and raising fuel economy to 25.4 mpg.
No surprises in this chart. The auto companies that are either US-based or traditionally US-based (Fiat Chrysler) emit the most CO2 and have the lowest mileage. Looks like Subaru has made the most gains in both categories since 2012.
The more you know about your gasoline in Michigan, the better your fuel efficiency stands to be! Read through this infographic from SpeedyQ Markets to find out how you can improve your fuel economy by understanding your gasoline.