Sentences with phrase «of diesel vehicles»

Supervised and assisted in the diagnosis and repair of diesel vehicles.

This scandal continues to reverberate in the auto industry and has raised global awareness of the impact of diesel vehicles on air quality.

The German automaker admitted to cheating on the US emissions tests for half a million of its diesel vehicles.

VOLKSWAGEN SCANDAL: The former CEO of Volkswagen is charged with conspiracy for his role in the company's rigging of diesel vehicles to comply with U.S. pollution standards.

Inspection and maintenance of diesel vehicles / Air Pollution 26.

This latest development may not hit home to a lot of people, but the development of a clean - burning synthetic diesel fuel like RenDiesel is one way to make the purchasing of diesel vehicles more worth it.

The EPA issued a Notice of Violation against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles today, alleging the automaker failed to disclose emissions - management software in a number of diesel vehicles, in addition to...

The company welcomed the Supreme Court's decision on lifting the ban on registration of diesel vehicles over 2000cc in NCR Delhi.

Nissan is joining Toyota in gradually ending the sale of diesel vehicles in Europe.

Sales of diesel vehicles have been on a sharp decline for the past year due in part to rising taxes and possible bans looming.

It is in the light of this development that Mercedes - Benz, Audi and Volkswagen will be systematically expanding their ranges of diesel vehicles.

The Japanese premium brand, which is a hybrid - only brand in the UK, is the market leader in petrol - electric luxury vehicles and has long highlighted the relatively high NOx and CO2 emissions of diesel vehicles.

It's obvious from the name Chevrolet uses in all of its press releases — Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel — that the automaker is trying to re-educate the American motorist, whose expectations of diesel vehicles are that they're noisy, smoky, smelly and slow.

Volkswagen reached a $ 14.7 billion settlement with 475,000 U.S. owners of diesel vehicles and federal and California regulators in October after admitting to installing secret software in its diesel cars to cheat emissions tests.

(Adds Volkswagen comment, background, paragraphs 2 - 10) By Ayesha Rascoe Sept 30 (Reuters)- A Texas county sued Volkswagen AG in state court on Wednesday, accusing the German carmaker of violating state environmental laws by installing software on some of its diesel vehicles to circumvent emissions tests.

The Automobile Magazine test fleet has been blessed with a variety of diesel vehicles lately.

LMC Automotive forecasts U.S. sales of diesel vehicles will grow from 400,000 units in 2011 to almost 1 million in 2016.

A vital question in the ramp - up of diesel vehicles in the U.S. is the availability of diesel fuel.

Volkswagen Group's so - called «defeat - device» emissions software has allowed hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles from the 2009 - 16 model years to emit nitrogen oxide at illegal levels while thwarting emissions tests.

It's not just automakers — major European countries will ban diesel engines (or in extreme cases, all internal - combustion engines) in the coming decades, with Korea itself restricting the sale of diesel vehicles by 2030.

The proportion of diesel vehicles registered in Leipzig however rose from 19 to 26 % between 2010 and 2016 — with negative consequences: While black carbon and the number concentration of ultrafine particles decreased, the concentration of gaseous nitrogen oxides (NOx) is stagnant and is still too high.

The Land Rover Evoque joins the long list of petrol powered SUVs that were launched last year following the diesel ban in the NCR area that restricted the registration of any diesel vehicle that has an engine capacity of over 2000cc.

Not exact matches

For example, the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in southern California in July approved a plan to replace their current fleets of mostly diesel trucks with zero - or near zero - emissions vehicles by 2030.

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.

Dieselgate (as it became known) exposed the extent of the pollution problems caused by diesel vehicles, which until recently accounted for half of new car registrations in the EU.

The document remains confidential, but CARB has stated that in it «VW admitted... that it designed and manufactured its 2.0 - liter diesel vehicles with defeat devices to bypass, defeat, or render inoperative elements of the vehicles» emission - control system.»

At the start of the 1990s diesels accounted for about 10 % of the light - vehicle fleet in Europe.

Qualification as a Green Giant: A line of products ranging from diesel locomotives to electric vehicle charging stations that are certified against a set of criteria and verified by a third party as delivering superior environmental and financial performance to customers.

After the car companies met with the government at the start of this month, the CEOs of Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW conceded responsibility for the diesel scandal and promised to pay for software upgrades to reduce emissions from affected vehicles.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - A top German court ruled on Tuesday in favor of allowing major cities to ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars, a move set to hit the value of 12 million vehicles in Europe's largest car market and probably force carmakers to pay for costly modifications.

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.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to be mirrored in other parts of Europe and to force automakers to pay to improve exhaust systems or switch to cleaner vehicles.

Susan Alt, senior vice president of public affairs for Volvo Group North America, said the EPA's proposal «makes a mockery» of the company's investments to develop clean diesel engines and will «hurt a large number of small businesses who are not selling glider vehicles.»

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 22 - A German court on Thursday delayed a ruling on whether major cities can ban heavily polluting diesel cars, which could hit the resale value of 15 million vehicles in Europe's largest car market and force automakers to pay for costly modifications.

France's environmental minister Nicolas Hulot announced Thursday the country would end «the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040.»

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.

Britain, France, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Scotland — and yes, China — have all announced they will eventually prohibit the sale of gas - and diesel - fuelled vehicles, sending shockwaves through auto and oil sectors.

After 23 years selling Volkswagens at his dealership, Kalafer reckons he has never seen anything as bad as the German automaker's rigging of the emissions levels on its clean diesel vehicles.

General Motors is being sued for allegedly rigging diesel engine versions of its Silverado and Sierra HD vehicles to pass emissions tests.

A return to US$ 100 oil would accelerate investment in electric vehicles and bring forward the moment of cost parity with petrol and diesel engines, at which point the oil industry risks losing its footing forever and going into run - off.

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

Europe, where nearly 50 per cent of vehicles are fuelled by diesel, is home to the global benchmark for diesel prices and the biggest storage hub for the road fuel as regional refineries are unable to meet local demand.

Speaking on these figures, Steve Frost said: «A lot of later diesels are reasonably clean vehicles, the ones the Government are trying to get off the road are the older ones which don't comply to the latest euro emissions - they can be quite dirty diesels.»

The city has made its first purchase of renewable diesel for some of its vehicles.

Policy makers encourage the use of advance internal combustion engine vehicles (particularly diesel), as well as hybrid technology and emerging plug - in electric vehicles to meet the medium - term demands of the issue (to 2020).

The application of hybrid powertrains and renewable fuels on diesel platforms will further reduce the vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions and could breathe still more life into what was a very hazy U.S. industry not long ago.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

Skeen explains that although new diesel vehicles are cleaner than ever before, some of the latest generation gasoline engines emit as much particulate matter as older diesel engines.

The first UOP - derived ecofining facility, capable of producing 100 million gallons of diesel fuel for ground vehicles, is now being built in Livorno, Italy; a second facility is set to be constructed in Sines, Portugal.

But diesels produce two - thirds of the PM10 emissions from British vehicles.