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- 1. (chiefly of a vehicle) designed to prevent the wasteful consumption of fuel: "an affordable, fuel-efficient compact car"
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Form of thermal efficiency
Fuel efficiency is a form of thermal efficiency, meaning the ratio of effort to result of a process that converts chemical potential energy contained in a carrier into kinetic energy or work. Overall fuel efficiency may vary per device, which in turn may vary per application, and this spectrum of variance is often illustrated as a continuous energy profile. Non-transportation applications, such as... Wikipedia