Sentences with phrase «half of diesel»

Trucks ship a ton of freight an average of 120 miles on a gallon of diesel fuel; railroads can move the same cargo 600 miles on that gallon.

The auto company posted a loss of 1.59 billion euros in the wake of its diesel emissions scandal.

Still, VW would find it hard to reach the global pinnacle without significant sales of diesels in the U.S.

But it seems increasingly unlikely that any fix for the lean NOx trap vehicles — roughly 60 % of the diesels involved — will ever be approved by regulators.

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

For years, it developed engine components that enabled trucks to burn natural gas instead of diesel.

Earlier this year, the company suspended a top executive after news broke that the company was involved in tests of the effects of diesel fumes on humans and monkeys.

Tesla has stated that the microgrid will offset the island's previous use of 109,500 gallons of diesel per year, along with the import shipping costs to get that fuel there in the first place.

I remember the shock when the price of diesel fuel went up a penny a gallon.

At the end of last year, the price of a litre of diesel was 59.64 rupees, meaning it has risen by 10.5 percent so far this year, not quite keeping pace with the rise in Brent crude oil.

The automaker admits that, since 2009, it outfitted several of its diesel - powered models — such as the Golf, Passat, Jetta, and Beetle — with «defeat devices» that would switch off emissions controls, and thereby boost performance, except when the vehicles were being put through environmental tests.

FRANKFURT / BERLIN, Feb 19 - A court will decide on Thursday whether German cities can ban heavily polluting cars, potentially wiping hundreds of millions of euros off the value of diesel cars on the country's roads.

The embattled chief executive has announced he will resign following the scandal surrounding the emissions of its diesel cars.

In the U.S., meanwhile, the value of diesel - powered models made by VW and its Audi luxury brand has taken a hit.

«Sales of diesel cars in Europe's five biggest markets - Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain - accounted for 37 percent of the total in April,» Menke said.

The jump in crude and gasoline stocks was offset by a bigger - than - anticipated fall in inventories of diesel, jet fuel and other distillates.

Matthias Mueller faces a daunting week ahead as he tries to rescue Volkswagen from the ashes of diesel deception.

Schulz said he intended to strengthen consumers» right to sue companies, using the example of diesel drivers being able to sue the Volkswagen Group following the diesel scandal, known as Dieselgate.

Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

Martin Winterkorn, the embattled chief executive of Volkswagen, has announced that he is to resign following the scandal surrounding the emissions of its diesel cars.

Meanwhile, Beijing has suspended exports of diesel fuel indefinitely in anticipation of surging domestic fuel demand during the coming peak summer season.

That plan, proposed by economist Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler of the Sustainable Prosperity Institute, would leave the existing excise tax of 10 cents per litre of gasoline and four cents per litre of diesel unchanged.

In the meantime, China has banned the export of diesel fuel, which may soon be needed for power generation.

Hagens Berman is one of the most successful auto litigation law firms in the U.S. and is presently leading nationwide cases against Volkswagen, GM, Mercedes and Fiat Chrysler for use of diesel emissions - cheating software.

Since the energy portion of the recovery fee is variable and structured on a sliding scale, as the national average price of diesel goes down, the recovery fee will be reduced.

Caterpillar's production of diesel locomotives now takes place in Muncie, Indiana, in a Westinghouse transformer assembly plant that was abandoned in 1998 and retooled by Caterpillar with generous government support.

Q: Will my recovery fee go down if the national average price of diesel goes down?

The rate for energy costs will change if the average price of diesel has changed from the previous range for a period of more than two out of the previous three weeks.

The system will store solar energy created during the day and feed it to the grid during the evening hours to help reduce the amount of diesel power generation needed to meet the island's electricity demand.

The noxiousness of diesel has led to a paradoxical debate where far - from - benign gasoline emissions have gained the perverse position of being perceived as the lesser of two evils.

With petrol prices last week climbing over 140p for a litre of unleaded fuel for the first time ever (according to Experian Catalist) and the cost of diesel lingering around record highs, sentiment towards the oil companies has unsurprisingly started to fall again.

You give the weight of a diesel engine and driveline but not the cost to compare.

The newly appointed CEO of Volkswagen attempted to move the company on from the «difficult and painful watershed» of diesel emissions scandal by...

The company does make it up with lower diesel costs but there is a lag time between lower fuel surcharges and the declining price of diesel.

«Electric energy costs are half those of diesel.

Beijing could end the flow of diesel and gas to Pyongyang, invite Kim for a parley, and permanently ensconce him in the guesthouse that once housed Cambodia's deposed Prince Sihanouk.

Perhaps this is a consequence of the diesel emissions scandals or the sky high market valuation attributed to US electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla.

As a result, refiners are shipping increasing quantities of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel to Europe and Latin America.

A drop of diesel is seen at the tip of a nozzle after a fuel station customer fills her car's tank in Sint Pieters Leeuw December 5, 2014.

Air Handling provides 24 - hour emergency service and a fleet of diesel and electric rentals to meet all of your compressed air needs.

We now fuel all of our diesel trucks (and diesel generators) with «renewable diesel».

The main energy sources used in the industry are gas and electricity, but there is also significant use of diesel generation, and a growing interest and use of biogas and solar generation as alternatives in the face of conventional energy costs continuing to rise.

By going solar Turtle Island will save an estimated 127,000 liters of diesel fuel per year, significantly reducing their carbon footprint.

Nick Janois hurried up with a box full of Havana cigars roughly the size of diesel smokestacks.

Workers excavating for the expansion of the public works garage uncovered dirt that smelled of diesel fuel, said John Turner, public works director.

When it comes to the emissions of diesel powered engines, the impacts are serious and potentially deadly.

West Side residents have long complained about trucks crossing the Peace Bridge because of diesel fumes that have been linked to respiratory illnesses.

The search and rescue assets were deploying to Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas, he said, and the Defense Logistics Agency has pre-positioned logistics management and resource support, including 11 generators, 50,000 gallons of gasoline and 50,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

China, the world's biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol cars and vans.

He said, «In the presentation, Kragha told the legislators that the nation's three refineries produced additional volumes of 4.6 million litres of kerosene and 7.7 million litres of diesel.