I did have to convince an off - duty police officer this morning at the Mobil station that I could actually
put diesel fuel in this gleaming white Mercedes.
Initially it was a bit challenging to remember to
put diesel fuel in the car.
Gary Schaefer, president of Hey & Associates, which oversees the dredging project for the Park District, learned that some of the truckers working for Elgin - based Martam Construction Inc. had
put diesel fuel in their truck beds to keep the material from adhering when it was dumped.
You can even
put diesel fuel into a gas engine (or vice versa) and it'll work for a while.
Not exact matches
They
put lots of gas or
diesel fuel in their cars or trucks, and sometimes they have to get their trucks or trailers repaired by local businesses before they can return home.
The large percentage of
diesel fuel that went missing in the 2000 study was
put down to evaporation and natural dispersion.
France wants to gradually phase out the use of
diesel fuel for private passenger transport and will
put in place a system to identify the most polluting vehicles
Getting 28 mpg combined, Fueleconomy.gov says it's possible to make up the $ 3,700 premium you'll pay for the
diesel (versus the base engine) within seven years; as of November 2013, the site
put annual
fuel costs at $ 2,050 for the TDI and $ 2,600 for the supercharged V - 6.
To
put it in perspective, the A7
diesel gets much better highway
fuel economy than the much smaller Volkswagen GTI, which has a turbocharged, 2.0 - liter gasoline four - cylinder, and it's almost on par with a four - cylinder Honda Accord.
UK engine options haven't been confirmed, but in Europe the A5 will launch with two TFSI petrols and three TDI
diesels,
putting between 188bhp and 282bhp to the road while drinking up to 22 per cent less
fuel.
My colleagues have already discussed the merits of the 3.0 - liter turbo -
diesel V - 6, but it's worth noting I
put nearly 329 miles over the course of three days, and I only used roughly half a tank (i.e. 13 gallons) of
fuel.
However, it should be said that any modification that raises the amount of
fuel and air
put through a
diesel engine will increase its operating temperature, which will reduce its life and increase service requirements.
Mercedes - Benz plans to roll out a wide range of
diesel - and hybrid - powertrain models over the next three years to cut
fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and plans to
put a B - class wagon powered by a...
After winning and
putting its stamp on the Dakar Rally with the Race Touareg powered by a
fuel - efficient TDI (direct - injection
diesel), Volkswagen is now taking up the issue of sustainability in the Scirocco GT24 as well — and emphatically — on the race course.
It doesn't sound like a big deal, but a common perk with
diesel engines is their abundance of torque; the 2.0 in the Cruze
puts out an impressive 264 lb - ft of grunt, for example, while still managing a
fuel consumption of just 7.5 L / 100 km city and 4.2 L / 100 km highway, making the
diesel the most efficient Cruze in the entire lineup.
Customers who opt for the
diesel engine generally
put a lot of miles on their trucks, and though it would take an awful lot of miles to save enough
fuel to justify the $ 4,720 cost of the Powerstroke, the increased efficiency does help.
The
diesel's 240 - horsepower and 6.7 - second 0 - to - 100 km / h numbers
put it between the other two in acceleration, but its 428 lb - ft of torque and impressively - low
fuel consumption numbers give it a clear edge overall.
New for the Edge is a revised bi-turbo
diesel engine - the 2.0 - liter unit called EcoBlue now
puts out 238 PS (versus the previous 210 PS) and «delivers the power, torque and driving performance of a larger capacity engine alongside the optimised
fuel - efficiency and low CO2 emissions synonymous with a smaller engine capacity.»
With no
diesel option on offer (like the 1.4 - litre D4D that's available in the rest of the Europe), the 1.33 - litre VVT - I petrol engine on offer in the UK, paired with the manual gearbox, returns 51.4 mpg in combined
fuel economy and emits 127g / km in CO2,
putting it in road tax band D, which will cost about # 105 a year.
SFE stands for Super
Fuel Economy, which represents Ford's efforts to
put a very small engine into a very small car — providing economy without resorting to battery packs, a
diesel powerplant, or stop / start in order to keep the car as simple and affordable as possible.
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Refineries are the critical link between crude oil and the gasoline and
diesel fuel that drivers
put in their tanks.
The two scientists calculated all the
fuel inputs for ethanol production — from the
diesel fuel for the tractor planting the corn, to the fertilizer
put in the field, to the energy needed at the processing plant — and found that ethanol is a net energy - loser.
A surge in electric vehicle sales and higher efficiency in internal combustion and jet engines are expected to slow demand growth for
fuels such as gasoline,
diesel and aviation
fuel in the coming decades, potentially
putting pressure on refining profits.