Sentences with phrase «of diesel powered»

A third reason, one of the original reasons for the spread of diesel powered vehicles in transportation was that diesel fuel was generally 15 - 20 % cheaper than the more highly refined gasoline.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

The new regulations were designed to properly balance the performance of petrol and diesel powered cars and thus AMR could break the stranglehold of the diesel powered Audi and Peugeot.

Nissan has launched the basic (XE) entry level trim of the diesel powered Micra, which was facelifted recently.

The major highlight of the diesel powered variant has to be the engine under the hood which, thanks to a newly developed combustion method, delivers 7 percent improvement in power and fuel efficiency than its predecessor.

Other commercial vehicles like buses, trucks and mini-vans are excellent examples of the longevity of diesel powered vehicles that runs hundreds of kilometres every day.

This might be Land Rover's solution to the proverbial guillotine hanging on top of diesel powered SUVs in India.

Given the current uncertainty over the fate of diesel powered cars and deregulated fuel prices, buyers are seeing petrol engines in big cars as a viable option again.

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

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 larger 70s - era generators will be removed and replaced with smaller, modern generators, but the same general amount of diesel power will still be in play.

Those weary of diesel power have the more approachable, less - powerful GL450 to choose from, but it's still hard to beat the GL350 Bluetec's impressive fuel economy and cruising range.

You'll have to weigh the benefits and the drawbacks of diesel power yourself, though.

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

The addition of diesel power adds a new extension — it maintains the spirit of the drive, but with an average fuel economy that's currently unmatched in the affordable segment.

EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I liked the little 2013 Mercedes - Benz GLK250 Bluetec better than I thought I would, mostly because of its diesel power.

Mazda will reinvent its Volkswagen Golf - rivalling 3 later this year with new engine tech that could eventually spell the end of diesel power in its cars.

One of our favorite applications of diesel power is in midsize SUVs.

For the first time in this model range, the new Jaguar X-Type now offers the combination of diesel power with automatic transmission — pairing the 2.2 litre diesel with a six - speed automatic, and the one - touch control of Jaguar Sequential Shift — broadening the new model's appeal to buyers who previously could not have this combination in an Jaguar X-Type.

China isn't a fan of diesel power for passenger cars, so there won't be any turbo - diesel X1 LWBs.

«The combination of diesel power with automatic transmission and Jaguar Sequential Shift adds yet another dimension to the Jaguar X-Type», commented X-Type Chief Programme Engineer, Kevin Stride.

In terms of diesel power, the Mercedes S350 CDI gets a 3.0 - litre V6 engine that produces 258 PS of power at 3600 RPM and 620 Nm of torque between 1600 - 2400 RPM, paired to a 7G - Tronic Plus automatic transmission sending power to the rear wheels.

Now we have the concrete possibility of diesel power, which puts me in blissful territory... I really wish they could get the Mexican plant up to speed sooner than 2018 for the hatch diesel.

3.0 TDI DIESEL Audi deserves a lot of credit for the new proliferation of diesel power in the American car market.

In terms of diesel power, the 3.0 - litre TDI engine now produces 258 HP, while the 4.2 - litre TDI produces 385 HP of power.

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.

(v) The cost of generation is lesser than that of the diesel power station.

Not exact matches

This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.

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.

ASX - listed specialist pumping company Babylon Pump and Power is in full swing, with the company reporting robust revenues for the March quarter on the back of strongly performing specialty rental and diesel businesses.

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

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

Despite her criticism of car makers, Merkel rejected a blanket ban on diesel autos, saying that a gasoline - powered vehicle actually emitted more CO2 than a diesel one.

Today I was driving my GASOLINE powered car around a city with a lot of other GASOLINE powered cars, I saw some trucks and buses driving around with DIESEL engines, and got stopped at a level crossing while a train, pulled by 2 DIESEL locomotives went by.

FUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrids.

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

What France really needs to do, according to a number of environmentalists, is slash its dependency on diesel - powered engines.

TRADITIONAL ANSWER Off - grid mines have typically bought and operated their own diesel or heavy fuel oil power generating facilities, as security of energy supply is an important factor in the mining industry

Beyond appealing to environmental concerns, electric truck makers must prove that total cost of ownership will be lower than for diesel - powered trucks, even if electric versions are more expensive upfront.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

«In an effort to improve our air quality, my company is in the process of implementing a significant project to replace these carbon based diesel generators with solar - powered alternatives which will run off the sun's pure renewable energy.

«The Management in an effort to cushion the effect of the incident on the Power and Water supply made an arrangement with Kaduna State Water Board to be supplying the hostels with water in Tankers as well as diesel for the generators as a temporary measure until the situation is restored back to normalcy.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

The use of petrol and diesel engines to power cars will also need to be «much less dominant» and replaced with electric power and biofuels, a policy meeting in the House of Commons heard.

The Deputy Minister of Power, Mr John Abdulai Jinapor, said the real challenge facing the power sector currently was the inadequate supply of Gas and diesel to run some of the power plPower, Mr John Abdulai Jinapor, said the real challenge facing the power sector currently was the inadequate supply of Gas and diesel to run some of the power plpower sector currently was the inadequate supply of Gas and diesel to run some of the power plpower plants.

«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.

There's the system to power the whole enterprise: a pair of 225 - kilowatt diesel - powered generators, notes Frank Rack of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Similar efforts are taking place nationwide, such as a coalition of African - Americans and Latinos stopping a sewage treatment plant from being built in their Northern Manhattan neighborhood, and a multicultural group in Boston helping local communities fight, among other things, a diesel power plant slated to be built next to an elementary school.