How to Use alternative fuel in a Sentence

alternative fuel

noun

• So far, around 8,000 households have been trained to make the alternative fuel.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
• The gases will then react to form methanol, an alternative fuel that can be used in cars.
  — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 17 June 2019
• Rather than a panacea, then, shale is making Americans complacent about the need to find alternative fuels that can match the needs of the future.
  — Roger Howard, Newsweek, 14 July 2014
• The main component of the plan will be a network of alternative fuel corridors that crisscoss the state.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 12 July 2022
• Beijing has already called for one out of every five cars sold in China to run on alternative fuel by 2025.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• But new aircraft, better engines, alternative fuel sources, and more can make these trips good for the economy and good for the planet.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• Enviva is the world’s largest supplier of wood pellets, which are used as an alternative fuel to coal.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2020
• Learn about electric cars, bikes and school buses as well as EV trends, alternative fuels, and home solar and battery storage.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• But their assets – their fleets – were purchased with a long lifespan in mind, and alternative fuels aren’t yet widely available.
  — Don Maier, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2023
• The series is configured with diesel-electric hybrid propulsion, though the engine-room space is large enough to adapt as alternative fuels evolve.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2023
• The district was also the first in Illinois to have a fueling station with four different alternative fuels.
  — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 15 Dec. 2017
• Because all alternative fuel vehicles are not the same, the batteries can be in different places.
  — Ash-Har Quraishi, Aparna Zalani, Ryan Beard, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Learn about electric cars, bikes and school buses as well as electric vehicle trends, alternative fuels, and home solar and battery storage.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Biogas can be captured from decomposing landfill and farm waste and made into alternative fuel for heavy trucks and power plants.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Windmill operation is showing great promise as an alternative fuel source slash stress treatment and is catching on all over the world, except for in America, where all the wind is used to extinguish the dreams of the poor.
  — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• Substantially more people will be traveling by air by 2030, and the current pledges made by airlines to use more low-carbon alternative fuel will at best only help cancel out a chunk of that growth.
  — Oliver Wyman, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• To him, diesel just needs some help from another alternative fuel—hydrogen.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2018
• Attendees will learn about everything from electric cars, bikes and school buses to EV trends, alternative fuels, and home solar and battery storage.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Within 10 years, alternative fuel spending must account for at least 15 percent of total investments in the fuel supply to help combat the growing threat of climate change, the report said.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2020
• For buses used by other private entities, the state would cover up to 75 percent of the cost for new all-electric vehicles and 25 percent of the cost of new vehicles using alternative fuels.
  — Jim Turner, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• How were the locations of the alternative fuel corridors chosen?
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 12 July 2022
• When muscle glycogen stores fall low late in long runs, the muscles rely increasingly on breaking down their own proteins to provide an alternative fuel source.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 7 Feb. 2020
• At the start of this year, Utah has begun a pilot Road Usage Charge program, coupled to an increase in registration fees for alternative fuel vehicles.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2020
• Related The net-zero strategy is supposed to help out the hardest sectors to clean up, like shipping and aviation, which are still searching for alternative fuels.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
• Often these are dual-fuel – ships that can run on either alternative fuels or fossil fuels.
  — Don Maier, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2023
• Far better to follow Brazil’s lead and help the industry diversify by using sugar-cane juice to distil ethanol, an alternative fuel.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019
• But battery technology is still too heavy for planes, which will most likely need to rely primarily on alternative fuels to take off in a less polluting way.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Task Forces are inviting any town residents who own any electric, hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle to show off their clean energy machine too.
  — courant.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• However, these alternative fuel sources come with their own challenges.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Cummins also revealed some diesel and alternative fuel engines this week.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024