Similarly, an independent water and power project in Bahrain has attracted a range of global investors and the Chinese contractor SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Co Ltd. Standard Chartered is the mandated lead arranger and documentation bank to a consortium to finance the project, which entails the development, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a 1,500-MW power plant and a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant with production capacity of 50 million imperial gallons per day.

Set over 1.5 acres, it uses 1.5 million gallons of water and features a wave pool and 35 slides.

Around 5.5 billion liters (1.45 billion gallons) of baijiu was consumed throughout the world in 2016, according to London-based consultancy Euromonitor International.

In Indonesia, for instance, large packs of liquid body wash were bought by 3.8 million more households in 2020, while drinking water sold by the gallon was bought by 4.5 million additional households.

In the United States, sales of grass-fed milk grew by 30 percent to 50 percent from 2012 to 2017, and sales volumes reached 2 million gallons in 2017, according to the US dairy industry data.

But it is 450 pounds lighter, and its V-8 engine achieves 23 mile per gallon on the highway that rivals smaller SUVs.

The fleet is projected to reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions from 308 metric tons of greenhouse gases to zero, or the equivalent to saving over 34,000 gallons of gasoline or removing 66 conventional passenger vehicles from the road for an entire year, according to BYD.

"A fully autonomous subcompact car like a Honda Fit, for example, will get 54.6 miles to the gallon in 2025 in the best-case scenario, more than 5 miles below the United States emissions target, according to BorgWarner.

Wholesale gasoline fell 2 percent to $1.72 a gallon and heating oil skidded 2.2 percent to $2.20 a gallon.