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fuel-efficient

American  
[fyoo-uhl-i-fish-uhnt] / ˈfju əl ɪˌfɪʃ ənt /

adjective

  1. producing power, heat, etc., at a rate considered optimal with regard to the amount of fuel consumed.


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Gaining a deeper understanding of these steps could help scientists develop efficient artificial systems, such as synthetic leaves and solar-based fuel technologies, that replicate nature's design.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025

"All this money has been spent to develop efficient technologies, both on the engineering and on the manufacturing side," says Mr Yamanouchi.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2011

But wind and hydroelectric power can be generated at only a relatively few sites, and so governments should redouble financing for research to develop efficient, low-cost photovoltaic power.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Gore the real job of a competitiveness council would be to foster similar efforts to develop efficient technologies in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

They trusted largely to question and answer, and poured out from their own and their inherited experience wise maxims such as would guide the simple and inexperienced and develop efficient manhood.

From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Kent, Charles Foster

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