Sentences with phrase «instead of diesel»

These electric APUs use battery packs instead of the diesel engine on traditional APUs as a source of power.

«What makes them unique is the fact that a hybrid electric motor / generator works with the transmission and a 340 - volt battery, allowing the truck to source electrical power instead of diesel gas when traveling at speeds below 30 MPH.»

But this year's crop of masters (I was a reader of one, which I signed gladly) addressed many key problems — wind instead of diesel gen sets in C. America, biofuels (the real kind) for cars, exposure of people in large cities to air pollution.

[T] he analysis finds that powering trucks and buses with natural gas instead of diesel fuel probably makes the globe warmer, because diesel engines are relatively clean.

It's clear the UK will get the 3.0 litre diesel and the 5.0 litre supercharged V8 — and that Americans will get the new 3.0 litre V6 Supercharged instead of the diesel option — but we are hoping Land Rover will see fit to put the 4.4 V8 diesel in the Range Rover Sport for the first time to make a properly appealing diesel Sport with proper performance and oodles of torque.

It sounds a bit nicer, is faster outright, and the seven - speed dual - clutch gearbox it comes with instead of the diesel's torque converter gives faster shifts.

There's still no official word on when we can expect the Ford Ranger Raptor to arrive in America, but according to Car and Driver it could powered by the F - 150's 2.7 - liter, EcoBoost V6 gasoline engine instead of the diesel unit in the Australian model.

And with petrol instead of diesel power inevitably comes worse fuel economy and increased CO2 emissions.

(We expect a more traditional drivetrain instead of the diesel - hybrid.)

This is when I started to see more and more cars that were filled with GAS, instead of diesel.

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

Not exact matches

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

Du Pied, 40, gets calls about flat tires, breakdowns and bikes that customers have mistakenly filled up with diesel instead of gasoline.

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.

New York City has invested in some 900,000 gallons of renewable diesel — made mostly from animal fat and vegetable oil instead of petroleum.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

Instead eyes are on a handful of high - tech labs around the U.S. that are perfecting ways to make the equivalent of gasoline and diesel from the lowest life - forms on the totem pole: yeast, algae and bacteria.

Instead we'll get 1.8 - litre and 2 - litre TSI petrol engines and a choice of four - cylinder diesels.

There's enough torque to make you forget about the relative lack of horsepower, cruising range is incredible, and there are virtually no audio or visual cues to remind you the engine is burning diesel instead of gas.

The Mule is based on an International DuraStar chassis, but instead of a turbo - diesel under the hood, it's got an electric motor.

The engine lineup instead is expected to be made up of five different four - cylinders: a 140 - hp, 1.4 - liter turbo; a 180 - hp, 1.8 - liter turbo; a 230 - hp, 2.0 - liter turbo; and two 2.0 - liter diesels.

Diesels are a European thing, a misguided policy trying to lower CO2 emissions which is not a pollutant and instead causing massive increases of dangerous pollutants as NOX and particles.

It's not a diesel — at least not here in the U.S. Instead, the Atlas packs a turbocharged 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that delivers 235 hp and 258 lb - ft of torque.

None of the A8's luxuriousness is taken away because it sucks up diesel instead of gasoline; the engine is quiet at idle and emits a strangely powerful, non-diesel soundtrack during heavy acceleration.

and it wouldn't have been bad had they just offered this car with a more powerful engine or V8, but no, instead anemic derivative engines and a diesel that's absolute crap, cause they're right, for the price of this car optioned you can get a much better BMW, Audi or MB.

Before you ask, it's swapped with the 1.6 gas motor instead of the 1.6 diesel.

The compression ignition part means that instead of using spark plugs, the action of squeezing the mixture during the piston up - stroke is enough to auto - ignite the mixture — just like a diesel engine.

Instead, today I'll just note that odometer readings like their current ones were once unheard of outside the realm of fastidiously maintained Mercedes - Benz diesels, Mopar slant - sixes from the Sun Belt, or the occasional old Beetle scuttling around on rust, dust, and a ninth rebuilt motor.

Volkswagen AG used cameras instead of mirrors on the XL1, an aerodynamic diesel - hybrid two - seater developed at the behest of Chairman Ferdinand Piech and touted as the world's most efficient car.

It has two parallel turbo's (bi-turbo) instead of the «in - line» register turbosystem we see on the strongest 6 - cilindre diesels (BMW 535d).

There are plenty of Big Pickup buyers out there who use their heavy - duty diesels for dirty work; this Titan is not aimed at that clientele, instead being designed to tow luxurious campers and fight the suburban Dallas cul - de-sac luxury truck wars — hence its absurdly vinicultural Platinum Reserve nameplate.

The A-Class has been brought into line with the rest of the Mercedes range nomenclature, meaning the diesels are no longer CDIs but instead bear the «d' suffix.

It remains to be seen if U.S. regulators will share Jaguar Land Rover's enthusiasm for diesels going forward; until the new administration signaled its intention to relax fuel economy and emissions standards, prospects for diesel in the U.S. looked limited at best, with impending 2018 legislation making VW throw in the towel instead of waiting for the regulatory regime to tighten.

Instead of being predictable and dropping a diesel engine into the NX300h, it relies on hybrid power to bring down running costs.

Instead of a regular gearbox, the Nexon AMT gets a 6 - speed AMT unit; wherein in the ratios for the petrol AMT and the diesel AMT remain the same, more or less.

The facelifted Evoque will continue offering the Ford - sourced 2.2 - liter SD4 diesel engine, which produces 187 hp and 420 Nm of torque, instead of the new 2.0 - liter Ingenium diesel engine available in its home market of the U.K..

The batteries driving these motors are recharged using two diesel - fed micro gas turbines instead of a conventional four - stroke engine.

Potential buyers would be better staying away from the 1.8 - litre petrol and instead going for one of the diesels.

We don't have confirmation of what options we'll get instead, but bank on a 350 - badged diesel as one of them.

While it is still not known as to what powertrains will be offered on the Titanium S, we expect the same 1.5 - litre 3 - cylinder Dragon petrol and the 1.5 - litre TDCi 4 - cylinder diesel engines to power the EcoSport Titanium S. However, the Titanium S variant will get a 6 - speed manual gearbox instead of the 5 - speed manual one.

I have to hand it to Mazda: instead of tarnishing its reputation and fit a defeat device to its diesel, Mazda preferred to wait and work some more on the engine to make it truly compliant with emissions regulations.

It's broadly similar to the standard Soul hatchback, but instead of a petrol or diesel engine there's a 109bhp electric motor and 27kWh lithium - ion polymer battery pack.

Since the tiny 800 - cc diesel engine drive train has a peak efficiency of under 40 % instead of over 80 % efficiency of a BEV drive train from tank to wheel, one should multiply the 260 mpg by 2 = 520 mpge capability of the VW XL1, for a fair comparison.

Instead of the standard Silverado 1500 All Terrain X, this 2500 HD version carries over the 6.6 - liter turbo - diesel V8, giving this truck some serious grunt.

That said, the Yaris does not get a diesel engine option and instead comes equipped with a 1.5 - litre, 4 - cylinder petrol engine that produces 106 BHP @ 6,000 rpm and 140 Nm of torque @ 4,200 rpm.

And instead of a gasoline engine, the car has two electric motors, batteries under the seats and a rear diesel engine to charge the batteries and provide additional power and range.

This four - cylinder common - rail turbo diesel is a fine engine for the affordable end of the panel van range, although you do find yourself slightly less willing to forgive the noise levels above 2,000 rpm than you would be if there was a Renault diamond instead of a three - pointed star on the wheel hub ahead of you.

The Jetta Hybrid beats the previously available diesel engine in both city and highway fuel economy, and its plenty of fun to drive, largely thanks to a seven - speed DSG gearbox instead of the typical hybrid CVT.

While both versions get the same 2.0 - litre diesel, the Australian Compass comes with a naturally aspirated 2.4 - litre petrol instead of a 1.4 - litre turbocharged unit on the India - spec SUV.

And I'm convinced that most buyers opt for the diesel instead of the petrol in the UK simply because the range is so much better, rather than any real concerns about the cost of refuelling.