We chip in for the
petrol and food.
我们凑钱买汽油和食物。
They filled the car up with
petrol before the long journey.
他们在长途旅行前，给汽车加满了汽油。
They ran out of
petrol.
他们的汽油用完了。
Sinopec and CNPC aim to switch to new energies and transform petrol stations into "integrated energy service stations" where drivers can either charge or swap their vehicles' batteries.
中石化和中石油的目标是转向新能源，将加油站改造成“综合能源服务站”，司机可以在这里充电或更换汽车电池。
"Just like a car going to a petrol station, it only takes eight minutes to 10 minutes to fill a cell vehicle with hydrogen," she said.
她说：“就像汽车去加油站一样，给一辆电池车加满氢气只需要8分钟到10分钟。”。
"While China National Petroleum Corp is eyeing the development of a low-cost hydrogen value chain and to build hydrogen refueling stations in anticipation of a drop in petrol demand from road transport, Sinopec－with the largest downstream market presence in the country－has the most ambitious hydrogen plans in place, and hydrogen for the transport sector will likely be its top priority," Cao said.
CNPC's Beijing sales company also plans to upgrade its Beijing Jinlong petrol station into a combined gasoline and hydrogen refueling station by the end of September, while the company also intends to have three more hydrogen refueling stations in Beijing and Hebei province by the end of this year to make sure it will operate 50 hydrogen refueling stations nationwide in the near future.
The company's strategy will consist of three parts — electric vehicles, petrol engines and hybrids — to offer models that will meet the demand of different customers, said Blume.
It connected 5.5 million truck drivers with 7,000 privately owned petrol stations.
Although China's new regulations earlier this year lifted the restrictions on the number of petrol stations that a foreign company can solely run, Kapitany said Shell will continue to adopt whichever format bests serves customers, whether that's a successful joint venture or wholly owned foreign entity models.
The online map marks local restaurants, petrol stations and stores, aiming to attract more day-trippers into remote villages.
Taking advantage of the Belt and Road Initiative, the company has decided to speed up construction of its sales network in Singapore, including petrol stations and oil storage.
The partnership will see Alipay become immediately available as a payment option for Chinese tourists across Pi Pay's merchant network in Cambodia, which consists of over 1,400 businesses, including high-end dinning, haute couture fashion, spa treatment, mini-marts and petrol stations, said a joint statement released at the signing ceremony here.
PetroChina's oil and gas trading arm aims to buy petrol stations and fuel storage facilities, setting up business in West Africa, Brazil and Pakistan in a major global expansion aimed at taking on international rivals, according to three senior oil industry executives briefed on the plans.
The new investments are expected to start as soon as next year, and mimic the moves the world's top oil mer-chants Vitol and Trafigura have made recently－spending billions to buy up thousands of petrol stations in Pakistan, Turkey and Africa.
Commodities trader and miner Glencore replaced China's Sinopec as the buyer of Chevron's South African and Botswana assets in October, including a 100,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban as well as 820 petrol stations and other oil storage facilities.
PetroChina's petrol station is pictured in Beijing, China, March 21, 2016.
An agreement was signed in December 2016 between KMG and CEFC on the sale of the 51 percent stake of the KMGI Group, which owns and conducts major operations in refining and petrochemicals, retail, trading, upstream and industrial services through its own network of Rompetrol petrol stations in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Georgia, as well as through its partners in the Black Sea region.
The new vehicle combines an electric powertrain and battery with a small petrol generator, giving the car a range of around 110 kilometers on pure electric and a combined range of more than 640 kilometers.
The TX is a series hybrid, with all four wheels always powered by electricity and the petrol engine charging the battery when needed, as opposed to a parallel hybrid where the petrol engine cuts in and drives two wheels.
The corporation has also recently bought Chevron Corp's South African assets and its subsidiary in Botswana-an attempt to secure the Chinese company's first major refinery in Africa, including a 100,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban and 820 petrol stations and other oil storage facilities.
While diesel cars produce less carbon dioxide than petrol cars, they create far more nitrogen oxide, which is damaging to health.
"We have just launched a brand new generation of petrol and diesel engines, highlighting our commitment to this technology.
Sales of petrol cars also fell, but only by 13 percent.
According to Tufan, the expo will help design brands and products with newer-generation tools for modern individuals while reducing the dependency on petrol.
Due to rising global oil prices, petrol and diesel oil prices jumped 6.7 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively, in June on a yearly basis, up by 6.1 percentage points and 6.6 percentage points, respectively, from that in May.
Nonfood prices edged down by 0.1 percent year-on-year in November, the bureau said, with the prices for transportation, especially petrol and diesel oil, dropping while those for healthcare and education rising.
Back in the era of petrol vehicles, cooperation between multinationals and China's local automakers was usually made because China traded its vast market for technologies.
Wang added that it is necessary to strengthen departmental coordination and create policy synergy to stabilize and expand the consumption of new energy vehicles and petrol vehicles.
The China Convenience Store Development Report, which was jointly released in May by the China Chain Store& Franchise Association and KPMG, said the number of convenience stores stands at 193,000, and they fall into three categories: traditional convenience stores including directly owned and operated stores alongside franchised and those affiliated with petrol stations; internet-based convenience stores such as JD convenience stores, and small-sized grocery stores and drug stores.
According to the country's current pricing mechanism for refined oil products which was first introduced in 2016, petrol and diesel prices would not be adjusted as long as global crude oil goes below $40 a barrel or above $130 a barrel.
So building their presence in petrol stations helped further drive availability and create new consumption occasions for travelers behind the wheel," Yu said.
The main measures to implement an oil cap include gradually phasing out traditional petrol and diesel vehicles (or internal combustion engine vehicles) in the transportation sector, imposing stricter energy efficiency standards in other sectors, and prohibiting or discouraging use of certain plastic products, it suggested.
Unlike traditional fuels, such as petrol and diesel, hydrogen produces no pollution when burned.
With a petrol and diesel car ban nearing, the couple would consider an EV, but are put off by a lack of charging infrastructure, battery life fears and price.
Scholz has promised to make charging "as easy or even easier "than refueling petrol cars.
To realize growth targets, the plan specified measures including expanding NEV consumption while stabilizing that of petrol vehicles, boosting auto exports, encouraging second-hand auto sales, strengthening product quality, keeping industrial and supply chains stable, as well as improving infrastructures.
All the existing supportive policies for NEV consumption should be well implemented, while no further restrictions should be placed on petrol vehicle purchases, it said.
Now, annual sales of NEV companies such as BYD have outstripped those of traditional petrol vehicle enterprises such as FAW-Volkswagen and SAIC Volkswagen.
"NEVs are more attractive than petrol vehicles for consumers, as we see more visitors and sales consultants in the NEV exhibition halls," said Ma Wenting, a store manager for the NEV brand Deepal.
"Many people around me have changed their petrol cars to NEVs," said a visitor surnamed Guo, who noted that NEVs can have lower travel costs and provide better driving experience than petrol vehicles.
Not only has he replaced all three of his petrol vehicles with NEVs, but he has also purchased two NEVs for his parents and in-laws.
In terms of performance, there are two engine options: a 2.3-liter turbocharged gasoline or petrol engine.
The joint venture now offers eight power variants of the Sylphy, including petrol and hybrid.
The five-door hatchback comes in six variants, including petrol power and hybrid, at prices ranging from 139,900 yuan ($20,300) to 182,900 yuan.
The Bentayga Extended Wheelbase is powered by Bentley's proven 4.0-liter, 32-valve dual twin-scroll turbocharged V8 petrol engine.
The EU has recently struck a deal on a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035.
The European Union struck a deal on Thursday on a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035.
Fast-rising petrol prices attributed to the unrest in Ukraine was the main driver for the increased interest in electric vehicles.
The Scandinavian nation has decided to end sales of petrol cars by 2025, exempting EVs from taxes and providing charging infrastructure.
The ACEA data also did not include a breakdown by petrol, diesel and electric vehicles, which are provided in a separate quarterly report.
The market performance of new energy cars and petrol vehicles took diverging paths, with the former continuing to see explosive growth, said Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the association.
As electric car sales take off and petrol engines face being phased out by 2035, Europe is looking to develop its own battery production base.
With a mid-July announcement that it intends to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035, the European Commission has set a timetable for the bloc's shift to electric cars.
Sales also took a hit late last year after the British government said it planned to ban diesel and petrol car sales from 2030 as part of a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by the middle of the century.
Earlier this month, the British government announced a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, five years earlier than its previous plan.
China, which offers hefty subsidies for electric vehicles as it seeks to cut down on pollution from petrol or diesel cars, has been expanding its nationwide network of charging points, one of the biggest challenges to encouraging adoption of EVs.
The charging time is equivalent to the time it takes to fuel a petrol vehicle that runs the same distance.
Beijing has the most stringent controls over vehicle purchases, for both petrol and new energy vehicles.
Due to the COVID-19, in the first six months, China's EV production and sales lagged that of petrol vehicles.
BMW said the X3 is the first model to be available with a petrol or diesel engine, plug-in hybrid drive system or all-electric drive system.
The model, priced at 2,462,000 yuan, sports a 4.0-liter V8 petrol engine, which generates a maximum output of 550 horsepower and a top torque of 770 Nm.
LONDON－Britain will ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035, five years earlier than planned, in an attempt to reduce air pollution that could herald the end of over a century of reliance on the internal combustion engine.
The government said that, subject to consultation, it planned to bring forward an end to the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition was possible.
Diesel and petrol models still account for 90 percent of sales in Britain, and prospective buyers of greener models are worried about the limited availability of charging points, the range of certain models and the cost.
In the next few years, the automaker is expected to invest more in electric vehicles than petrol vehicles.
Four famous car brands born in Britain but now foreign-owned - German-held Bentley and Mini, Indian-backed Jaguar Land Rover and Chinese-controlled Lotus - have each this month outlined plans for purely electric models to sit alongside their petrol vehicles.
Fully electric cars, which need to be charged from the mains, and hybrids, which combine electrics with petrol or gasoline engines, are gaining in popularity as more consumers turn away from the pollution-spewing internal combustion engine.
"The mindset is that the industry should simply replicate the existing petrol and diesel product ranges, only in hybrid and electric," Wells said.
Li said the company is working toward meeting the world's demand to replace petrol and diesel buses, especially in the overseas market.
The downturn in the petrol vehicles industry and fierce competition impacted the company's petrol vehicles business to some degree.
The guideline, however, does not totally prohibit production of more petrol vehicles.
He added that Lifan will continue to make traditional diesel and petrol cars, new energy cars and hybrid electrical vehicles.
Tighter restriction on diesel and petrol cars will be highlighted in the "most draconian" policy, including suspending new projects and limiting capacity expansion, according to the newspaper.
"Compared with traditional vehicles, NEVs are better in aspects such as the exemption from restrictions on license plate numbers, the government subsidies, the lower price of electricity versus that of petrol and the particular appeal to environmentalist consumers," said Lin Boqiang, head of China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University.
China's leading new energy automaker BYD posted a 19.5-percent decline in net profits last year amid "significantly reduced" subsidies for new energy vehicles (NEVs) and a sales slump in petrol vehicles.
Its sales of petrol vehicles, however, dropped 24.6 percent year-on-year to 245,000 units in 2017.
"The plug-in hybrid model combines a new-generation V6 petrol engine with an electric motor, which alone can power the car up to 50 kilometers.
Steadily rising ownershipThe cars, priced at nearly $15,500, are the first attempt by the government to replace its half-a-million fleet of diesel and petrol guzzlers with electric vehicles.
But the lion's share still run on petrol and diesel, worsening already atrocious air quality in a country that ranks high among the world's most polluted.
"The car uses a 338bhp 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine that powers the front wheels.
"Customers will be able to choose from battery electric, plug-in hybrid and mild hybrid power, as well as ultra-clean petrol and diesel engines.
Refueling conventional petrol and diesel cars on motorways has long been the domain of the oil companies, which typically have their own networks of filling stations.
France and the United Kingdom announced in July they will stop sales of petrol and diesel automobiles by 2040 as part of efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.
In July, French Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot announced that France would end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of the country's plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord.
The top-model 540i sprints from 0 to 100km/h in only 5.1 seconds - unrivalled in this segment, while the 530i consumes only 6.7 liters of petrol over 100 km.
The vehicles mainly consume petrol, despite demonstrating superior fuel efficiency.
Experts believe Sinopec Corp can benefit from its extensive petrol station network, and its involvement in the automobile sector will alter the market pattern at a time when competition is intensifying.
The SMMT figures were released the day after the British government announced its plan to ban the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040 to encourage people to buy electric vehicles.
This will be supported by strict oversight by the central government, and controls on the number of petrol and diesel vehicles rolling off production lines.
But even if France eventually bans sales of diesel and petrol vehicles, PSA spokeswoman Laure de Servigny said the company will continue making such cars for foreign markets.
The powertrain combines a 3.5-liter V-6 Dual VVT-i petrol engine and two electric motors, together delivering a total output of 264 kilowatts.
The company said the Velar will be built exclusively in Britain, using Jaguar Land Rover's leading lightweight aluminum architecture, and will be powered by the latest ultra-clean UK-built Ingenium petrol engines.
Technical innovations gave both the petrol and diesel engines even more power on further reduced fuel consumption.
"These things don't change overnight, as the petrol dollar system has been around for many decades, and the reality is there is so much trading and price exposure in the oil market in dollars in place," he said.