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The seals do not experience centrifugal forces, and can be lubricated directly by metering small amounts of oil directly to the sealing surface through the housings, which means that oil consumption can be reduced to levels potentially comparable to that of a 4-stroke piston engine (essentially negligible).
Electric cars give notice to one of the biggest profit drivers for the American auto-service sector: the oil change. Hybrids and plug-in hybrids have essentially the same oil-change needs as non-hybrids. Not so fast, though. And in the U.S.
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In terms of fuel consumption per distance driven, the change between 1973 (the year of the first oil embargo) and 1991 (from 7.75 million} plug-in electric cars and light trucks that were sold in the United States through December 2019 were still on the road, they would represent only about 0.6% gallons per 100 miles to 5.10
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Over the same period, electric and plug-in vehicles are expected to grow to about 70 million cars, or less than 5 percent of the total fleet. China will see the largest increase—more than 4 million oil-equivalent barrels per day. Transportation fuels. Global liquids supply by type. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge.
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This long-term growth is expected to be propelled by improving vehicle technology economics—a function of battery innovations, government transportation energy policies, oil price projections, and movements to price carbon. —Scott Shepard, senior research analyst with Navigant Research.
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