Some cities have vehicle-free days, when private cars, trucks, and motorcycles are banned in the city centre. People are encouraged to use public transportation like buses, taxis and metros. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer and include any releva...
Car owners often get conflicting advice about oil filters. Vehicle owner's manuals, installers, quick-lube operators, mechanics and retail clerks all have different opinions. The reality is that when it comes to oil and filters, the only right answer is a customized answer. People are different...
But even the best air filter can withstand only but so much abuse from the outside environment. So how do you, as a car owner, know when it's time to change the air filter? That all depends, as is often the case with car parts, on how hard the car is driven and under what ...
Preparing Your Car for a Fuel Filter Change Regardless of how complicated the job may be, safety should always be your first priority if you decide to take on the job yourself. Even if you're careful, changing your fuel filter will release flammable fumes and small amounts of fuel. Accor...
To make an informed decision on how often to change transmission fluid depending on your own vehicle’s needs, you can follow these few simple guidelines.
Change your air filter Some studies show that replacing a clogged cabin air filter can improve fuel efficiency by as much as 14 percent. Clogged cabin air filters mean there’s less air getting to your engine, which affects its performance. You can ask your mechanic to help with changing you...
Change your cabin air filter as recommended in the owner’s manual (your garage will change it during an inspection). A dirty filter prevents air exchange through ventilation and air conditioning. Check the seals around your windows and sun roof. Leaks can make the inside of your car damp. ...
Preventive maintenance actions include vehicle inspection, lubrication, adjustment, cleaning, testing, repair, and/or replacing worn parts, including spark plugs, an air filter, and even checking tire pressure. Ensuring you have a solid fleet maintenance plan is essential to effective public sector fle...
Of course, once the threshold is exceeded, the price of the products is bound to change as the consumer demand changes. Specifically, the price difference between green and brown products is larger under direct sales and smaller under agent sales. This indicates that in direct selling, ...
Since climate change often does not affect enterprises directly but somewhat through climate policy, Pan et al. (2022) [30] used a low-carbon city pilot program as a quasi-natural experiment to explore the impact of climate policy on low-carbon innovation. Closest to our study, Ren et al....