1000 Green Steps » Fuel Efficient Cars http://1000greensteps.org New Green Business Ideas Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:42:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Step 110: Green Steps in Driving Your Car http://1000greensteps.org/2011/01/28/step-110-green-steps-in-driving-your-car/ http://1000greensteps.org/2011/01/28/step-110-green-steps-in-driving-your-car/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:14:41 +0000 Valencia http://1000greensteps.org/?p=1094 1000 Green Steps has found too many drivers who always drive like a jerk. Fast, aggressive driving is a big fuel waster. It’s very dangerous to drive like that, both for you (and other people) and for our earth. Try to maintain a constant speed – most cars reach peak efficiency while cruising between 55 and 60 miles per hour – and avoid rapid acceleration and braking, which can increase fuel consumption by as much as 40 percent (and make everyone else on the road hate you).

Happy Green Living!

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Other suggestion from 1000 Green Steps is to use public transportation whenever possible, carpool, shop locally, and ideally switch to a hybrid or energy-efficient car (if you haven’t already).

Happy Green Living!

]]> http://1000greensteps.org/2011/01/25/step-112-green-steps-in-transportation/feed/ 0 Step 37: AT&T Expands Green Fleet http://1000greensteps.org/2010/12/31/step-37-att-expands-green-fleet/ http://1000greensteps.org/2010/12/31/step-37-att-expands-green-fleet/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:12:50 +0000 Kathryn J. Siranosian http://1000greensteps.org/?p=517 AT&T is expanding its green steps through alternative-fuel fleet to more than 15,000 vehicles by 2019.

The company plans to:

  • Replace about 8,000 gasoline-powered vehicles with vehicles powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) over the next five years. This is the largest U.S. corporate commitment to CNG vehicles to date.
  • Replace 7,100 passenger cars with alternative-fuel models over the next 10 years.

According to AT&T, the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, Mich., estimates that over the 10-year deployment period, the new vehicles will save 49 million gallons of gasoline and reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons. That is equivalent to removing the emissions from more than 38,600 traditional passenger vehicles for a year. What a green step!

You can learn more by watching this short video clip:

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If you’re like 1000 Green Steps, you must have already known how much the price of petrol has increased. That makes us wonder if there is any way to save petrol, and at the same time to do your green steps. Now that we came to talk about it, there are!

First of your green steps, you should make sure you set aerodynamics for your car, this will increase miles per gallon. Then you can convert the car to burn water – fine tune your old engine as it might use only 20% of energy of petrol and waste the rest in heat, vibration of engine. Add hydrogen to water.

Happy Green Living!

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