tailpipe
IPA: tˈeɪɫpaɪp
noun
- (US) An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle) (in any configuration)
- (automotive) An exhaust pipe exhausting to the aft of the vehicle
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Examples of "tailpipe" in Sentences
- Which is why, in our view, the tailpipe was the way to go.
- The "tailpipe" rule, which adopts new standards for car and light-truck emissions.
- Don’t throw bad money into a company whose tailpipe is malfunctioning, causing a strange odor to fill the car.
- We're doing them together, because what comes out of your tailpipe is a function of the standards for the car and the gasoline you put in.
- • Gov't pushing more fuel efficiency for trucks: For the first time, the government announced proposed fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe emissions for medium - and heavy-duty trucks.
- Second, also for the first time ever, to achieve cost-effective reductions we are treating tailpipe emissions and gasoline as a single system -- what comes out of the tailpipe is a function, in part, of the gasoline.
- That means that only "tailpipe" emissions are taken into account; it doesn't even include evaporative emissions from the vehicle itself, never mind the upstream evaporative. emissions from the distribution of the fuel.
- If you have no other means of staying warm besides the heater, turn the car into the wind if possible, make certain the tailpipe is free of snow, crack a window on both the upwind and downwind sides, and run it only for five minutes every half hour.
- For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department released proposed fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe emissions for medium - and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year.
- For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department announced proposed fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe emissions for medium - and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year.
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