by Environmental Articles on February 12, 2010
The Most Fuel efficient title has been sought after by the best in the business for years. The top of the manufacturing industry come together to determine the top in the United States. So we have happily complied the best of the best in the United States for your reviewing pleasures!
Honda Insight Hybrid
The Most fuel efficient vehicle in the United States goes to the Honda Insight Hybrid. The Insight features a 1.0 gasoline engine and an electric motor. The hybrid uses low resistance tires and aside from its cramped seating and slightly odd styling it is the most efficient yet!
Toyota Prius Hybrid
The Most Efficient Mid-size car goes to the Toyota Prius Hybrid. This vehicle has a 60 mpg city and 51 mpg on the highway and features the capacity to carry 5 people and equipment! The Prius has a stylish shape and has a reduced drag.
Honda Civic Hybrid
The Honda Civic Hybrid was rated the most efficient compact car and this beauty gets 49mpg on the city streets as well as 51mpg's on the highway! The new Honda Civic Hybrid is rated the cheapest in the North American industry with a more efficient design then the regular civic it will amaze you with its output of 110 HP you can't go wrong!
Volkswagen Beetle Diesel
This hummer of a car has been rated the most efficient sub-compact car with its 37mpg in the city and 44 mpg on the highway it will dazzle even the most skeptical. This Volkswagen is making waves with its 177lb per foot torque and surpassing even the sub-compact Hybrids in its class. The Volkswagen Beetle Diesel is a beauty everyone should see!
The Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Matrix
In a joint venture of Toyota and General Motors' the Pontiac Vibe and the Toyota Matrix were rated the top in Most Efficient Station Wagons. Running at 30mpg on the city streets and 36mpg on the highway these great stylish beasts were harmony to the eyes! Though they don't have great drag speed these beauties are efficient and smooth for those car pooling days with the neighbors! They feature a fuel efficient 1.8L 4 cylinder and it gets 126HP! These gems are well worth looking into.
Hyundai Sonata
The Hyundai Sonata was chosen as the most efficient large car in the United States. This big beauty gets 24 miles to the gallon on the city blocks and 34 on the highway. This gem surprised everyone when it slammed the competition with 2.4L and 4 cylinders. This gives Hyundai the boost it needs to slide out of the second rate manufacture's listing!
Overall each of these vehicles have proven to be the best on the market and most efficient in the use of its fuel saving you money on inflating gas prices! They have definitely earned the respect and dependability their place holds. Are you looking for the most gas efficient car on the market? Want to save on your outrageous gas prices? Here is a start!
Guy Starbuck is a super focused, health oriented food and wine fanatic who writes for Cargoyle.com, and MixtureCars.com
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by Environmental Articles on June 9, 2009
Biobutanol is gaining a lot of attention lately as an alternative fuel source that can be used in gasoline engines directly. It’s a specialized form of butanol created from fermenting biomass that’s similar to conventional corn-based ethanol. It however scores above ethanol by being as equally efficient as gasoline instead of offering a 70% fuel efficiency that comes with regular corn-based ethanol. This means you’ll need less biobutanol to cover the same amount of distance. It also means that although corn-based ethanol emits less CO2 it does have a tendency to raise food prices and is less efficient fuel economy wise than both diesel and gasoline making it a poor candidate as a substitute for oil.
Biobutanol offers more power than ethanol but isn’t being commercially produced on a large scale due to higher costs. While the procedure for producing biobutanol is essentially the same as ethanol, the difference in its key ingredient, an enzyme needed for the fermentation process. Finding the right enzyme for an affordable price that allows any type of plant matter to be converted to biobutanol remains a challenge.
Once researchers have figured that out, biobutanol could emerge to be the next biggest alternative clean fuel. It has many advantages over ethanol aside of offering more fuel efficiency.
Firstly since ethanol production and biobutanol production are virtually identical, the same facilities can be used to produce biobutanol commercially.
Secondly biobutanol does not absorb water like ethanol so it wouldn’t suffer issues like corrosion or water contamination during transportation. It can be easily distributed through the present infrastructure used to deliver gas meaning that existing facilities can be used without having to go to extra expense to create new ones. This makes the process of introducing biobutanol into the global market a relatively seamless one.
Obtaining the right enzyme at an affordable price can make the commercial production of biobutanol economically feasible some day. However the issues of using food as fuel still remain. While ethanol sounds like a viable clean source of fuel, the use of corn to make it has pushed up corn prices, which in turn hikes up the price of all corn associated food products.
Even if biobutanol doesn’t have the efficiency and transportation issues associated with ethanol it still relies on food crops as its base material. What’s required is a cheap enzyme that would enable fuel producers to produce biobutanol from grass or wood chips instead; which would present a breakthrough in the race to create a workable replacement to fossil fuels.
Current enquiry into sustainable fuels has promoted a renewed interest in biobutanol as a viable alternative. The U.S. Department of Energy issued a grant to ButylFuel, LLC to develop processes to make biobutanol production commercially and economically viable.
Supporters of biobutanol believe that it’s possible to drive existing vehicles with 100% biobutanol with little or no vehicle modifications. There have been limited tests on this claim. According to ButylFuel a vehicle was driven on 100% biobutanol cross country.
The company plans to market biobutanol as a solvent to begin with and as an environment friendly fuel later in the future.
