There are 3 million 18 wheelers on the road right now, mostly
running on diesel fuel.
Engines that
run on diesel fuel are inherently more fuel - efficient than their gasoline counterparts.
As noted earlier, cars that
run on diesel fuel use direct injection by default.
The vehicle gets great mileage as
it runs on diesel fuel.
Unlike traditional backup generators that
run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.
Not exact matches
Although three organic farmers
on the island plan to convert their
diesel - powered cars to
run on the rapeseed oil they harvest, everyone else relies
on conventional
fuels and probably will continue to for a long time.
The reason we didn't get the miserly
diesels is simple: the quality of the
diesel fuel available in this country was too poor to
run the new engines
on.
Hong Kong - based Hybrid Kinetic Group does specialise in turbine systems however, and its website makes claims that its turbine generators are as little as a half to a third the size of a conventional piston engine,
runs 20,000 hours maintenance free and can
run on virtually any
fuel - from petrol and
diesel to hydrogen, or propane.
From a product standpoint there will be a lot of interesting hardware in showrooms, including range - extending EVs, plug - in hybrids, clean
diesels, pure electrics, and flex -
fuel vehicles
running on cellulosic ethanol.
If,
on the other hand, you're a business driver or tend to go
on lots of long trips, the 108bhp 1.6 - litre TDI
diesel can work out the cheapest to
run, with a 70.6 mpg
fuel consumption figure.
Other block heaters
run on the vehicle's gasoline or
diesel fuel and do not require an external power source.
According to GM the Malibu will be offered with: «A range of 10
fuel - efficient and powerful 4 - and 6 - cylinder engines that are available with manual and automatic transmissions that
run on gas,
diesel or LPG.
[10][11] Among other advantages, the micro turbines used in the C - X75 can be
run on a range of
fuels including
diesel, biofuels, compressed natural gas and liquid petroleum gas.
The
diesel has more power, more torque, and
runs 200 miles further
on a tank of
fuel.
The inclusion of the PHEV model means that
running costs are extremely low, and even
on long trips,
fuel economy is
on a par or better than that of
diesel rivals.
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If they're planning to launch it here, a good investment is required to downgrade the Euro VI - compliant 4.0 L twin - turbo V8 TDI to BS - IV, so as to
run on the less clean BS - IV
diesel fuel sold in local
fuel stations.
There's plenty of poke in the low end for pulling into traffic, or for towing, ample upper end to
run steady and smooth
on the freeway, and virtually no evidence of
diesel - ness other than the badges and the
fuel filler (which is fitted with a handy AdBlue filler neck for the treatment tank refill).
of torque and
runs on clean
diesel or bio-
diesel fuel.
The Brazilian - spec Jeep 551 will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex -
fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm
running on petrol or 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm
running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II
diesel engine.
Recharging is done via a «
fuel agnostic» turbine engine that can
run on gasoline,
diesel, or natural gas.
According to the Brazilian publication, the South American - spec version will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex -
fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm
running on petrol and 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm
running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II
diesel engine.
These include a
fuel - efficient 2.4 - liter four - cylinder World Engine, a Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) 2.7 - liter V - 6 engine that can run on E-85, an available 3.5 - liter V - 6 engine coupled with a six - speed automatic transaxle with Auto Stick for the United States and Canada and a 2.0 - liter turbo diesel engine equipped with a six - speed manual or automatic transaxle for markets outside North Amer
fuel - efficient 2.4 - liter four - cylinder World Engine, a Flexible
Fuel Vehicle (FFV) 2.7 - liter V - 6 engine that can run on E-85, an available 3.5 - liter V - 6 engine coupled with a six - speed automatic transaxle with Auto Stick for the United States and Canada and a 2.0 - liter turbo diesel engine equipped with a six - speed manual or automatic transaxle for markets outside North Amer
Fuel Vehicle (FFV) 2.7 - liter V - 6 engine that can
run on E-85, an available 3.5 - liter V - 6 engine coupled with a six - speed automatic transaxle with Auto Stick for the United States and Canada and a 2.0 - liter turbo
diesel engine equipped with a six - speed manual or automatic transaxle for markets outside North America.
That's good for several mpg
on its own and suggests Hyundai could, with GDI and a couple other tweaks, produce a 45 mpg and possibly 50 mpg Elantra
running on regular gasoline — no electric motors and hybrid battery pack, no
diesel fuel.
Although the Subaru PZEV
runs on regular unleaded
fuel, it offers significant smog - reducing environmental benefits and delivers equal performance compared to non-PZEV cars or SUVs, including hybrids,
diesels and alternative
fuel vehicles.
Trains can
run on diesel as well as electricity (or coal if the dark ages do indeed return) and provide greater hauling capacity per unit
fuel (or unit CO2 if you prefer).
THey are
fuel agnostic and will
run on Hydrogen, biofuels, or traditional
diesel, gasoline, CNG, etc..
Another Russian answer says it is trying to encourage a shift from petrol and
diesel -
fueled vehicles to those that
run on natural gas.
It's really good that
diesel vehicle sales are declining, because the saved
diesel could be used power ships, barges and locomotives which normally
run on more dirtier bunker
fuel.
Pope suggested, «
Run the railroads on natural gas, not diesel, -LSB-...] run fleet vehicles on natural gas,» and «Replace peakers with fuel cells.&raq
Run the railroads
on natural gas, not
diesel, -LSB-...]
run fleet vehicles on natural gas,» and «Replace peakers with fuel cells.&raq
run fleet vehicles
on natural gas,» and «Replace peakers with
fuel cells.»
While most of them
run on costly
diesel fuel, more than seventy of these microgrids integrate some type of renewable energy.
I won't buy another fossil
fuel - powered car; I'll drive the Festiva as long as I can keep it
on the road and by the time it won't
run anymore pluggable hybrids that can
run as pure electric cars (in my case powered by wind and / or photovoltaics) most of the time, with flex -
fuel engines that can burn biofuels instead of gasoline or petro -
diesel for long trips, should be available.
Such a tax would be imposed not just
on gasoline but
on all fossil
fuels — from the coal used to generate electricity to the
diesel used to
run tractors — so it would affect the price of nearly everything, including food and manufactured goods.
The U.S. Army is testing two prototype generators in Iraq that
run on garbage, rather than
diesel fuel.
We
ran our 2006 Dodge Ram 2500
diesel truck
on waste vegetable oil (wvo) using a two tank
fuel system.
What we would like to see from Toyota and other car makers: More affordable very
fuel - efficient and low - emission hybrids, plug - in hybrids, all cars flex
fuel so that they can
run on cellulosic ethanol when it is available (the
fuel sensors required for that are apparently only about $ 30 - no reason not to include them in all cars),
diesel - hybrids with the latest emission technology (to
run on biodiesel where available, of course) and, as soon as battery technology is ready, affordable electric - only vehicles.
In case of car premium,
fuel type also decides the rate of premium, as for
diesel vehicles the premium is comparatively higher than the cars that
run on petrol.
It
runs on gasoline but borrows heavily from
diesel engine technology, achieving
fuel savings of as much as 30 percent when compared to a more traditional gasoline engine.