Mueller added that he understood customer concerns regarding diesel engines and the possibility that diesel engines could be banned in the future.
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Over the last year, the EPA has scrutinized other diesel engines and in some instances has taken longer than usual to approve new diesel engines.
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Mercedes Vitos with 1.6-litre diesel engines, Porsche Macans with 3-litre diesel engines and Cayennes with 4.2-litre diesel engine are affected by the step.
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Porsche's diesel engines are supplied by sister brand Audi .
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - United States-based diesel engines maker Cummins (CMI.
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That, however, has not been the case with diesel engines.
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Thor is powered by two 852-cubic inch V12 diesel engines.
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It is yet another controversy to engulf Volkswagen involving diesel engines.
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Porsche has stopped production of cars with diesel engines, according to Autocar.
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MAN Energy makes large diesel engines used in ships and power stations.
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Twelve-volt starters can struggle, particularly when attached to heavier diesel engines.
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Autocatalysts use both platinum and palladium, but diesel engines use more platinum.
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Powered by two diesel engines, the ship can reach speeds of 27 knots.
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Some Porsche models are equipped with 3 liter diesel engines supplied by Audi.
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The final generation of gasoline and diesel engines will be developed by 2026.
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Drivers, environmental activists, and consumer advocates would have tested the diesel engines themselves.
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Beloit used to be a town that made papermaking machines and diesel engines.
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The scandal triggered a crisis at Volkswagen and a crackdown on diesel engines.
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Diesel engines are up to 20 percent more fuel efficient than petrol equivalents.
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Kautex also makes selective catalytic reduction systems used to reduce emissions from diesel engines.
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Many of these use diesel engines, which again have been shown to cause cancer.
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We have contacted Mercedes and requested the test results for the U.S. diesel engines.
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It also pledged to phase out diesel engines in European passenger cars by 2021.
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Existing diesel engines will not be immediately relegated to the scrap heap, of course.
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His specialty is converting diesel engines to run on used vegetable oil in trucks.
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Cities across Europe are considering diesel bans, and sales of diesel engines are plummeting.
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One of them belongs to Chris Gambrel, who builds vast diesel engines in Seymour, Indiana.
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The other locations all use diesel engines, which are bad for the fume-type reasons.
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Illegal software has been found in VW, Audi and Porsche cars equipped with diesel engines.
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" Moreover, Silverman said, "the E.P.A. has explicit authority to regulate emissions from rebuilt diesel engines.
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NOx, which is emitted by diesel engines, is one of the main components of ozone.
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"Is inhaling particles from diesel engines worse than inhaling particles from fried foods?" he said.
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The rumbling diesel engines on conventional yellow school buses can be heard a block away.
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Diesel engines do spew less carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming, than gasoline engines.
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But the nitrogen oxides that diesel engines emit are considered carcinogens, and can cause asthma.
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Nitrogen dioxide is a gas emitted by diesel engines that causes lung disease and respiratory problems.
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Its huge bet on diesel engines and its poor handling of its Chinese dealers were not.
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But diesel engines have a dirty secret that Europe has been slow to recognise and control.
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Some Mercedes-Benz models, including the Vito, use diesel engines supplied by Daimler's partner Renault (RENA.PA).
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Volkswagen (VLKAF) has admitted that it rigged millions of diesel engines to cheat on emissions tests.
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There were also indications on Friday that controversy about diesel engines was spreading to other carmakers.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Federal Office for Motor Vehicles has approved diesel engines of General Motors' (GM.
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It works on gas engines up to 6 liters and diesel engines up to 3 liters.
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The city is also looking to phase out diesel engines on public buses throughout its quarters.
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For years, the British authorities offered lower vehicle taxes to motorists using low-carbon diesel engines.
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Diesel engines burn fuel more efficiently than gasoline ones, but they produce more harmful nitrogen oxides.
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Like many diesel engines, the Chevy's uses urea fluid to keep the engine emissions in check.
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Oxford Street records very high levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), a pollutant caused by diesel engines.
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Audi said on Friday that it would retrofit diesel engines with software that would lower emissions.
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That would be in addition to Braunschweig's fine which sanctioned violations tied to 4-cylinder diesel engines.
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Most years, country music and diesel engines make the most noise at the Mid-American Trucking Show.
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Volkswagen has already agreed on a $24.04 billion settlement for some 2327.5,22.0 smaller, 23.0-liter diesel engines.
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Boost funds for national diesel forum, which aims to find ways to reduce pollution from diesel engines.
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VW was found to have deliberately created software for its diesel engines that cheated EPA emissions testing.
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Diesel engines are a big contributor to local pollution levels because of the nitrogen oxide they emit.
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Its four diesel engines and its electric propeller engines were replaced, according to specialist publication Jane's Sentinel.
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Technologies funded by the EIB have included diesel engines, because they emit less CO222.6 than gasoline equivalents.
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News-flow around emission irregularities is increasing regulatory pressure to encourage a shift away from diesel engines.
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Powered by twin 1,300 hp diesel engines, the ship, when pressed, can top out at 47 knots.
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Some German cities are banning older diesel engines in an effort to reduce pollution in urban areas.
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Today oil-fired gas turbines, diesel engines, or the occasional steam plant drive ships through the water.
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And the relationship with PSA has addressed Toyota's weaknesses in Europe, especially its need for diesel engines.
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You cannot and will not solve the climate problem by gradually by improving petrol and diesel engines.
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That supports the case for diesel engines, given they burn less fuel per mile than gas cars.
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The German carmaker has admitted that it rigged millions of diesel engines to cheat on emissions tests.
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Brexit was seen as a part of the reason, along with the declining demand for diesel engines.
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European carmakers have looked to diesel engines to help comply with regulations intended to combat climate change.
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Volkswagen admitted in September to creating software to cheat on emissions standards testing for its TDI diesel engines.
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Because of an editing error, an article about diesel engines last Sunday misstated how diesel engine combustion works.
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Despite many electrification claims by other automakers, Smart is on the forefront of abandoning gasoline and diesel engines.
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Between Samsung phones, Chipotle burritos and Volkswagen diesel engines, it seems like it's been the year of recalls.
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In Europe, the stronghold of diesel engines thanks to decades of favorable government treatment, that portion is significant.
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The KBA is already conducting a similar investigation into VW's Audi brand, which supplies diesel engines to Porsche.
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But platinum is predominantly used in diesel engines and palladium in gasoline engines, which dominate the U.S. market.
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Higher fuel prices in Canada, largely because of taxes, had made diesel engines relatively popular in the country.
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Daimler has ordered the recall of 3 million vehicles to fix excess emissions coming from their diesel engines.
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Diesel engines have difficulty in extreme cold temperatures, and the FCA software appears to disable it under certain circumstances.
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But at this point, some of the cars with the 3.0-liter diesel engines were already on the road.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have found three unapproved software programs in 3.0 liter diesel engines made by Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.
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Antilock brakes, turbocharged (diesel) engines and a host of other whizzy extras all showed up first on German cars.
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P oliticians, who once applauded diesel engines for emitting less carbon dioxide than petrol ones, are also getting tough.
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The issue occurred during an operational test of the ship's port and starboard main propulsion diesel engines on Jan.
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The turbines used in the sculpture are modified to be back-driven with electric motors, instead of diesel engines.
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The 132-foot vessel is powered by diesel engines and is designed to operate without even human remote control.
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The VW scandal helped prompt a push by some lawmakers to ban diesel engines and eventually all combustion engines.
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German auto industry association VDA says 436,000 jobs are tied to building petrol and diesel engines in Germany alone.
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A "leisure" version comes with a choice of dual 370 hp diesel engines, or two 430 hp gasoline units.
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Most freight is hauled by equipment that uses diesel engines, or jet turbines in the case of air cargo.
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Diesel engines can be more fuel efficient than gasoline engines, but they also emit more soot, particulates, and NOx.
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As the PowerPoint underscored, people inside Volkswagen were aware that its diesel engines were polluting significantly more than allowed.
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I worked on the swing shift when I started, servicing the train cars and both steam and diesel engines.
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Engineers at Audi developed a way to eliminate the clattering sound that diesel engines tend to make after starting.
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Audi had developed technology that enabled diesel engines to run more quietly, but resulted in higher emissions of pollutants.
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Diesel engines extract more energy from a liter of fuel than a gasoline engine extracts from the same quantity.
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Planned events on the Decker, which has been refit with diesel engines, include stories about tugboats as working vessels.
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Demand for platinum, used in the catalytic converters on vehicles with diesel engines, has been depressed since the scandal.
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The vast majority are powered by diesel engines that spit out large amounts of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
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The company has been promoting its "clean" diesel engines, which it says emit 15% less CO2 than gasoline models.
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Today, only 1,763 employees remain at the plant, making diesel engines for export to the European Union and elsewhere.
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Stuttgart prosecutors have been investigating Porsche AG after some models were fitted with 3 liter diesel engines supplied by Audi.
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Subsidized scooters coupled with a framework of congestion zones that levy fees on petrol/diesel engines is one simple example.
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SUNDAY REVIEW Because of an editing error, an article about diesel engines last Sunday misstated how diesel engine combustion works.
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The decision to exit the WEC means Audi will be left with no diesel engines in motorsports, a spokesman said.
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It may reopen later this month with diesel engines to replace its traditional coal-fired locomotives that can throw sparks.
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FCA US diesel engines are equipped with state-of-the-art emission control systems hardware, including selective catalytic reduction (SCR).
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Unfortunately, we have yet to tame many other pollutants, like the particulate matter spewed by diesel engines and coal plants.
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What they do: Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul buses and trucks, or maintain and repair any type of diesel engines.
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Previously, U.S. regulators had said certain Audi diesels had software designed to reduce smog-causing emissions generated by diesel engines.
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Bosch supplied key parts for VW's diesel engines, but says the integration of them was the responsibility of the manufacturer.
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As part of the agreement, VW will also supply 2.0 litre diesel engines to light commercial vehicles made by GAZ.
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The German giant was found to have installed "defeat" software on its small diesel engines, to cheat on emissions tests.
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With four 325 horsepower V8 diesel engines all operating independently, the HAV 304 can fly up to 91 miles per hour.
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And German firms are facing accusations of collusive behaviour, including claims of more widespread rigging of emissions tests for diesel engines.
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He is also overseeing suits filed against Robert Bosch GmbH stemming from its role in developing the Fiat Chrysler diesel engines.
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Mr Müller is resistant, however, to disposing of any part of the firm, even a unit that makes marine diesel engines.
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German weekly Der Spiegel said there was considerable evidence that diesel engines of the Mercedes C-Class models were also affected.
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In 2010, Enercon, a German windpower specialist, launched E-ship1 with four 2-metre rotor sails to assist its diesel engines.
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Germany's move to allow cities to ban diesel engines from streets could have wide implications for the future of the industry.
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Since 2006, the carmakers have also discussed the cost of AdBlue, an exhaust emissions treatment system for diesel engines, Spiegel said.
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That maintenance included the replacement of its four diesel engines and its electric propeller engines, according to specialist publication Jane's Sentinel.
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In June 2016, Volkswagen agreed to a $14.7 settlement for claims over its U.S. cars equipped with 2-liter diesel engines.
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Chiefly used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, platinum is favoured for diesel engines and palladium is preferred for petroleum.
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Diesel engines offered better fuel economy than gasoline motors but also produced more nitrogen oxide emissions, a major component of smog.
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All those diesel engines produce carcinogenic smoke containing particulate pollution (soot) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which are hell on human health.
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Countries like France, the UK, Norway, India, Germany, and the Netherlands plan to ban gasoline and diesel engines by 2040—or sooner.
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He added that he expects diesel engines to survive for at least 20 more years, and gas engines for at least 30.
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The number of cars in the United States has since risen to include about 100,000 Audi and Porsche cars with diesel engines.
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Both Audi's 2.0-liter and 3.0-liter TDI diesel engines in the U.S. have been caught up in the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal.
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The mighty German automotive industry took a bad gamble on diesel engines, and is now mired in allegations of faked emissions tests.
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Owners of certain Volkswagen and Audi cars with 2.0 liter diesel engines from model years 2009-2015 are eligible under the settlement.
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Between 2000 and 2013 the proportion of new cars with diesel engines rose steeply, from one in 20 to one in two.
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Meanwhile, as production capacity of petrol and diesel engines is cut back, the impetus for mergers among suppliers should increase, bankers believe.
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Shift toward electric cars (one-third of planned investment in gas and diesel engines will be reallocated to electric or hybrid cars).
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The number of cars in the United States has since risen to include about 100,000 Audi and Porsche cars with diesel engines.
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The current Airlander is reckoned to have a top speed of 150km/h and is powered by four 4-litre diesel engines.
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Mr. Hatz was suspended in September soon after Volkswagen, which is Porsche's parent company, admitted rigging diesel engines to evade emissions tests.
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Although diesel generates more harmful nitrogen oxide pollution than does gasoline, diesel engines produce less carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming.
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As China and other countries place more restrictions on conventional gasoline and diesel engines, auto companies have accelerated the shift to electrification.
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The agreement that VW reached with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Justice Department and California concerns vehicles with 3-liter diesel engines.
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European carmakers are trying to cope with a public backlash against diesel engines, until recently the most popular powertrain option in Europe.
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That's partly because diesel fuel contains more energy per gallon than gasoline but also because the diesel engines themselves are more efficient.
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Diesel engines were once seen as a key part of automakers' strategies for increasing fuel economy and lowering emissions of greenhouse gases.
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In Germany, Europe's largest car market, sales of cars with diesel engines have fallen more than 20 percent during the last year.
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A new report from Piper Jaffray suggests Tesla Semi buyers could begin saving money over diesel engines after two years of ownership.
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In 2016, the company sold 489,418 Ram trucks, and 11 percent were equipped with diesel engines, according to data compiled by Hybridcars.com.
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In the period since, governments around the world have encouraged the adoption of oxymoronically designated 'clean diesel' engines through subsidies and grants.
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N) for possible prosecution over abnormal emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants from some of its diesel engines, the government said on Monday.
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In June, the same ministry said that Fiat Chrysler diesel engines sold in Italy were tested, and that they comply with emissions regulations.
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The nastiest part of Delhi's toxic cocktail, however, is probably the particulate matter spewed out by diesel engines, which the WHO deems carcinogenic.
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Battery costs for large electric vehicles could reach a cost-competitive level with diesel engines around the end of this decade, he added.
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Weak third-quarter data was chalked up to bottlenecks in the car industry, which had to meet new emissions standards for diesel engines.
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Known as the "workhorse" of the German Kriegsmarine, these subs featured active sonar, and were powered by six-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engines.
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Made of carbon fiber, kevlar, and mylar, the vehicle is filled with helium and uses diesel engines to take off, steer, and land.
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West Virginia announced the day before that the state had settled with Volkswagen for $2.6 million for lying about its "clean diesel" engines.
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The San Juan is a German-built, 65-meter long (213-foot) TR-1700 submarine, powered by one electric and four diesel engines.
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In June the company, government and lawyers for car owners reached a settlement covering some 2205,2742 cars equipped with 230-liter diesel engines.
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Owners of VWs with diesel engines have seen the value of their cars tumble after regulators found they produced excessive levels of pollution.
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The particular rule exempts trucks known as gliders, which use repurposed diesel engines that emit a lot more air pollution than new engines.
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At the 2014 show, many of the major automakers praised diesel engines as the clean and modern answer to transportation and environmental challenges.
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The catch is that diesel engines tend to emit higher levels of other nasty air pollutants, including soot, particulates, and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
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The move comes amid pressure from governments to reduce air pollution and end the sale of the most polluting types of diesel engines.
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Diesel engines burn fuel more efficiently than the gasoline engines that prevail in the United States, and produce less planet-warming carbon dioxide.
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"From today's perspective, we will not develop any more new generation diesel engines," Samuelsson told German's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview. 8.
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Delhi is already one of the world's most polluted cities thanks to emissions from coal-fired power plants, diesel engines, and industrial factories.
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Prices have been under pressure for several years, a process accelerated by Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal in 2015 which hit demand for diesel engines.
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There are approximately 262,22 buses in the US alone, and the majority of them are basically rolling cancer machines due to their diesel engines.
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She said the federal government would also set aside an additional 432 million euros for hardware retrofits of small trucks with older diesel engines.
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One to watch out for is Nissan's launch of a new engine design which the company says could render turbo-charged diesel engines obsolete.
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The UK-based automotive publication reported Tuesday all models equipped with diesel engines have been dropped following an emissions compliance issue for European markets.
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Audi admitted in November 2015 that its 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines were fitted with emissions control devices deemed illegal in the United States.
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Video: Facebook And while some of the US's trains are fully electric, many still have diesel engines that produce electricity to move the train.
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Barcelona consistently failed to meet EU guidelines on levels of Nitrogen Oxide—a pollutant associated with traffic, particularly diesel engines—according to local press.
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It works on both gasoline and diesel engines and even doubles as a handy charger for up to three devices at the same time.
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Also, the fuel economy of the diesel engines common in these trucks can vary widely, which makes it difficult to compare costs with electric.
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Daimler was last week ordered by KBA to recall Vito vans fitted with 1.6 liter diesel engines because it said they breached emissions rules.
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He argued that, at least in the medium term, making gasoline and diesel engines more efficient would be the best way to reduce emissions.
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Cars with diesel engines accounted for less than 3 percent of the 340,000 passenger vehicles that Mercedes sold in the United States last year.
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The Federal Trade Commission sued Volkswagen over its advertisements promoting the environmental benefits of its diesel engines, another front that could produce significant penalties.
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Depending on the usage of these diesel engines, these units will cost almost $1/kilowatt hour compared to average commercial rates of $0.14/kWh.
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Diesel engines burn fuel more efficiently than gasoline motors, but they produce far more nitrogen oxides, which cause asthma and are considered a carcinogen.
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Automakers use platinum mainly in diesel engines whose popularity has fallen in recent years, and use of the metal in jewelry has also declined.
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Automakers use platinum mainly in diesel engines whose popularity has fallen in recent years, and use of the metal in jewellery has also declined.
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Even as pollution control monitors say they are eliminating the dirtiest diesel engines, a walk on a Bangkok road can be a choking experience.
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"In the period since, governments around the world have encouraged the adoption of oxymoronically designated 'clean diesel' engines through subsidies and grants," Dyson wrote.
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The recall includes 2013-2017 model year Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup trucks with 6.7-liter diesel engines, including 443,000 vehicles in the United States.
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That scrutiny stems from a 2015 admission by another German automaker — Volkswagen (VLKAF) — that it rigged millions of diesel engines to cheat on emissions tests.
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On Monday, several areas of France were shrouded by high levels of ultrafine and health-harming particles emitted by cars, particularly those with diesel engines.
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Regulators blew the whistle on Volkswagen (VW) in 13 after the German company was caught using software designed to cheat emissions tests on diesel engines.
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It is fairly costly and used mainly in heavier cars like Diamler's large limousines or sports utility vehicles, which are equipped with powerful diesel engines.
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Under the new settlement, VW agreed to contribute another $225 million to the fund to offset the excess emissions from its 3.0-liter diesel engines.
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Its best market continues to collapse and it is reliant on increasingly unpopular diesel engines (which power the vast majority of its cars in Europe).
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Volkswagen has admitted to deliberately cheating diesel emissions tests, sending shockwaves through the automotive industries and causing a sector-wide crackdown on polluting diesel engines.
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It also announced a domestic recall of around 110,000 vehicles, including the Mazda 3 and CX-3, over a computer problem with their diesel engines.
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"Volkswagen continues to work expeditiously to reach an agreed resolution for affected vehicles with 3.0L TDI V-6 diesel engines," it says in a statement.
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The company has been reeling since September 2015, when news first broke that Volkswagen had been purposefully cheating on emissions standards in its diesel engines.
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The Otago has two MAN B&W 12RK1003 diesel engines, which allow the ship to reach a baseline speed of about 25 miles per hour.
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Since 1996, Mr Sliwa's family has generated extra cash by converting conventional petrol and diesel engines to Autogas, a form of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
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GE's transportation business, which generated revenue of $4.7 billion last year, manufactures freight and passenger trains, marine diesel engines and mining equipment, among other products.
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The affirmation follows Weichai's ability to maintain its strong financial profile even as the market for its core diesel engines underwent a downturn in 2015.
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It should also help Volkswagen restore some good will with owners of 2000,245 Volkswagens and Audi A3 models with the affected 2-liter diesel engines.
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But cars with diesel engines will become more costly as manufacturers add extra hardware to neutralize nitrogen oxides, which are linked to serious lung ailments.
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Renault had explained the NOx-cutting exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in its top-selling diesel engines had been found to cause serious turbo clogging problems.
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Regulators blew the whistle on Volkswagen (VW) in 2015 after the German company was caught using software designed to cheat emissions tests on diesel engines.
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German carmaker Daimler said diesel engines that Renault supplies for its Mercedes-Benz brand do not contain defeat devices used to cheat on emissions tests.
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It is fairly costly and used mainly in heavier cars like Daimler's large limousines or sports utility vehicles, which are equipped with powerful diesel engines.
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Diesel engines emit small particles and nitrogen dioxide that have been linked to cancer and more than 245,000 of premature deaths in Germany, experts say.
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In a statement, Mitsubishi, said that the 1.6 litre diesel engines subject to the investigation, including its control system, were manufactured by France's PSA Group.
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In some ways, diesel engines are environmentally friendly — they are more fuel-efficient than gasoline, and produce less carbon dioxide — but they have severe drawbacks.
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More platinum than palladium is used in diesel engines, whose sales have fallen since Volkswagen was found in 2015 to have cheated in emissions tests.
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DEUTZ AG, the Germany-based manufacturer of diesel engines, reported a 9.2 percent rise in first-quarter revenues while operating profits were 15.7 percent ahead.
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Mahindra & Mahindra in January launched 1.99 litre diesel engines to counter the ban and is working on developing petrol engines for most of its vehicles.
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VW has created a Special Committee on Diesel Engines headed by Wolfgang Porsche, head of the family clan which controls VW, to investigate the scandal.
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Renault had explained the NOx-cutting exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology in its top-selling diesel engines had been found to cause serious turbo clogging problems.
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The nitrogen oxides produced by diesel engines, which are far more popular in Europe than in the United States, are a potent irritant for asthma sufferers.
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Unlike gasoline engines, diesel engines required no spark plugs to ignite the fuel injected into each cylinder: Pressure and high temperatures caused it to combust spontaneously.
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Tax policy keeps diesel substantially cheaper at the pump than petrol, nudging consumers to prefer big cars that rely on diesel engines to meet emissions regulations.
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Porsche has said it will stop the production of cars with diesel engines, and Toyota is trending away from the scandal-tainted fuel source as well.
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What Continental is going to do is reduce investment in its hydraulic components business, which includes parts like injectors and pumps for gasoline and diesel engines.
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Staff members in engine development felt pressure from the management board to find a cost effective solution to develop clean diesel engines for the U.S. market.
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Worries about climate change and air pollution are prompting authorities around the world to consider phasing out new petrol and diesel engines in the coming decade.
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Last year, 48 percent of new car buyers in Spain opted for diesel engines, a figure surpassed only in Italy, where 56.3 percent went for diesel.
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European carmakers had invested heavily in diesel engines, which produce less carbon dioxide but more of other pollutants blamed for causing respiratory disease than petrol engines.
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Volkswagen (VW) admitted in September 2015 to cheating U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines, prompting speculation the resale, or residual, value of its vehicles might fall.
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Bosch, which supplied the computer that controlled Volkswagen diesel engines, was already a co-defendant in class action suits against the carmaker in the United States.
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But a solution for about 0003,000 cars with 3-liter diesel engines, including Audi and Porsche models, has not yet been agreed to, the judge indicated.
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"In the long run, you can't reduce excess emissions levels in cities unless you cut nitrogen emissions from diesel engines," he told a regular news conference.
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Diesel technology should continue to be pushed, since combined with modern filter systems, diesel engines can help cut pollution in large cities by reducing particulate matter.
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For those hauling trailers, the Cybertruck's range is dramatically less than what's possible with gasoline and diesel engines and will be even less once under load.
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But it has now become a key ingredient of something else: biodiesel, fuel for diesel engines that has been wholly or partly made from vegetable oil.
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The Qashqai SUVs affected by the probe were produced at Nissan's UK plant and use 1.6-liter diesel engines supplied by its partner Renault SA (RENA.PA).
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One example is cutting noxious soot emissions from diesel engines, because soot doesn't just kill people directly but is also a substantial cause of climate warming.
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The British government provided financial incentives to encourage a shift to diesel engines because laboratory tests suggested that would cut harmful emissions and combat climate change.
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Diesel engines power 60% of transit buses and 95% of school buses in the US, according to a report by the US Public Interest Research Group.
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This was especially important for its MAN Energy Solutions subsidiary that produces big diesel engines, some of which are used by the U.S. Navy, they said.
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The hefty cost of preventing nitrogen oxide spewing from diesel engines, which emit far less carbon dioxide than the petrol equivalent, may see them disappear by 2025.
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Electric motors are smaller than petrol or diesel engines, so electric vehicles designed from scratch can benefit from better interior packaging which allows a bigger passenger space.
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The company is unlikely to develop next-generation diesel engines for smaller vehicles, Armstrong said, explaining that customers have been abandoning the segment more aggressively than anticipated.
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Most ice cream trucks in London have diesel engines that need to stay running in order to keep the freezers cold and the soft-serve machines swirling.
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Sales to partners had a negative 3.1 percent revenue effect, as Nissan and Daimler bought fewer diesel engines and U.S. sales of Renault-built Nissan SUVs dwindled.
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VW has been shifting away from so-called oil burners since acknowledging in 2015 that it rigged emissions tests on vehicles using several of its diesel engines.
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Their cash cows are iron ore and coking coal, the raw materials of steel, which are used more heavily in petrol and diesel engines than in EVs.
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The company will also ramp up investments in electric vehicles, self-driving technologies, diesel engines and artificial intelligence, Denner said at a press conference in Bengaluru, India.
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The company has set aside 6.7 billion euros, or about $7.27 billion, to cover the cost of making the faulty diesel engines compliant with air quality regulations.
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In particular, the development and rollout of "Selective Catalytic Reduction" systems for diesel engines and "Otto Particulate Filters" for petrol engines are thought to have been affected.
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Last month Daimler was ordered by motor vehicle authority KBA to recall Vito vans fitted with 1.6 liter diesel engines because it said they breached emissions rules.
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A more effective technology for dealing with the NOx produced by diesel engines ("selective catalytic reduction") is widely used in diesel-powered trucks and large passenger vehicles.
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After a global agreement was signed in Kyoto in 1997, carmakers—especially in Europe—began producing small efficient diesel engines which emitted less CO2 than petrol engines.
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In Europe, growing concern over the health impact of nitrogen oxide is likely to encourage the shift away from diesel engines towards petrol, hybrids and electric powertrains.
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Regulators said FCA failed to disclose engine management software in 104,000 U.S. 2014-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0-litre diesel engines.
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And although biodiesel differs from ethanol — it derives from oils rather than sugars and works in conventional diesel engines — it, too, can fall into a similar cycle.
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Unlike platinum, palladium has benefited from the switch away from diesel engines and expectations for growth in hybrid electric vehicles, which tend to be partly gasoline-powered.
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Take a look at Big Nugget, which is powered by two 2.0-liter EcoBlue turbo-diesel engines that have an output of either 105 or 185 horsepower:
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French investigators have referred Renault for possible prosecution over abnormal emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants from some of its diesel engines, the government said on Wednesday.
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"If it were a normal boat with gasoline engines or diesel engines, you would actually hear it or smell it rumbling here next to us," Bryant says.
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Commercial truck makers are investing in electrification as regulators and policy makers have stepped up pressure to curtail or eliminate pollution from diesel engines in big cities.
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Stadler's arrest has thrown Volkswagen (VW) back into turmoil almost three years after it admitted to using illegal software to cheat U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines.
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Those who hear it have compared it to a fleet of diesel engines idling next to your home or the pulsation of a subwoofer at a concert.
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In 1931, the architect Angelo Invernizzi positioned his Art Deco Villa Girasole outside Verona on a circular track; propelled by diesel engines, it rotated with the sun.
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Along with moves by cities to ban or restrict diesel vehicles, countries like Britain, France and Norway plan to do away with gas or diesel engines entirely.
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Separately, Toyota and Isuzu Motors on Friday said they would dissolve their capital tie-up given limited progress made in their development partnership focusing on diesel engines.
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Regulators said FCA failed to disclose engine management software in 104,443 U.S. 2014-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0-liter diesel engines.
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Carmakers like Volvo face heavy expenditure in developing electric and driverless cars, just as diesel engines fall out of favor and major Chinese and European markets stutter.
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The public has been burned by conflicted or corrupt science too often, in scandals involving a wide variety of products, from asbestos to diesel engines to pesticides.
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Pruitt's other proposals affecting clean air include allowing truck-builders to retrofit new tractor-trailer bodies with old diesel engines that were built before tougher pollution standards.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler said diesel engines that French carmaker Renault supplies for its Mercedes-Benz brand do not contain defeat devices used to cheat on emissions tests.
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Germany widened vehicle pollution testing in the wake of Volkswagen's admission in 2015 that it had used a defeat device to rig U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines.
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A day after the EPA announced its investigation of FCA, French prosecutors said that they were probing Renault over abnormally high emissions from some of its diesel engines.
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Amsterdam said it aims to replace all gasoline and diesel engines by emission-free alternatives, such as electric and hydrogen cars, by the end of the next decade.
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VW said in September it was taking another $3 billion charge to fix U.S. diesel engines, lifting the total bill for its emissions scandal to around $30 billion.
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I remember hearing helicopter noises and the smell of diesel engines and being separated from my dad who was covering the story of the civil war in Cambodia.
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All of them ran different parts of Audi's engine development and testing divisions, and worked on the diesel engines that used "defeat devices" to cheat EPA emissions tests.
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The challenge will be creating an initial "critical mass" of cars that will move the local industry away from gasoline and diesel engines, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said.
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More innovations are now in the works, using hybrid-propulsion systems that can be driven by electrical power lines, backed up by batteries and diesel engines, Jia said.
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The westbound arbitrage is relatively uncommon, because European refineries do not produce enough diesel to meet demand in Europe, where around half the auto fleet uses diesel engines.
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" ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY (RIGHT-WING POLITICAL PARTY) Party leader Alexander Gauland: "This course of action against diesel engines will affect the strong exporting German car industry above all.
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It will pay a high price for its ill-advised gamble on diesel engines and it faces further disruption from the dash towards electrification and self-driving vehicles.
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Custom-built in 2011, Regina travels every winter from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean with the help of twin-diesel engines that supplement her sails with 880 horsepower.
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French investigators have referred FCA for possible prosecution over abnormal emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants from some of its diesel engines, the Paris government said on Monday.
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Stadler has been under fire since Audi admitted in November 2015 - two months after Volkswagen - that it used illegal software to cheat U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines.
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Palladium is extensively used in the making of catalytic converters in vehicles and has benefited from a switch away from diesel engines and demand for hybrid electric vehicles.
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U.S. regulators said FCA failed to disclose engine management software in 104,000 U.S. 2014-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0-liter diesel engines.
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"When we talk about diesel specifically in our sales, we see no change in Europe where the bulk of our diesel engines is sold," Dieter Zetsche told CNBC.
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DE) said they will spend 2.6 billion euros ($2.9 billion) by 2019 on developing next generation diesel engines to help the luxury carmaker meet new pollution measuring standards.
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The heart of the scandal revolved around Volkswagen installing devices on diesel cars that could cheat emissions tests, and prototype cars in WEC currently use hybrid diesel engines.
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The company's diesel engines did indeed deliver lower carbon emissions and better fuel economy, but at the cost of belching out noxious pollutants capable of shortening many lives.
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The vehicles involved in the settlement are the 2014, 2015 and 2016 model year Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs and Dodge Ram 1500 trucks with 3-liter diesel engines.
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INGOLSTADT, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's KBA automotive watchdog will recall more vehicles with larger diesel engines as part of a recall of 850,000 models issued last year, Audi's (NSUG.
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The vessel, which is 65 meters (213 feet) long and is powered by one electric and four diesel engines, had been due to arrive at its destination Sunday.
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A wildcard is a switchover to electrification, driven by rising government emissions and fuel-economy standards and problems with diesel engines in the aftermath of Volkswagen's cheating scandal.
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It has a 276-horsepower, 3.6-liter, 6-cylinder gas engine, in keeping with VW's decision to abandon diesel engines in the U.S. after the company's emissions scandal.
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In fact, in the case of diesel engines, the costs were deliberately obscured as manufacturers designed the cars to fool tests and appear cleaner than they actually were.
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In an interview with Reuters, Diess said fixing older VW cars equipped with 2.0-litre diesel engines would be more difficult than bringing more recent models into compliance.
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A federal judge had approved a settlement requiring Volkswagen to spend about $1.2 billion to fix or buy back nearly 80,000 vehicles equipped with 3.0-liter diesel engines.
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For a time, environmental scientists marveled at the vehicles, which offered power and efficiency for moderate prices while seeming to emit far less pollution than older diesel engines.
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Volkswagen, which admitted in 2015 to cheating United States emissions tests on diesel engines, said it was fully cooperating with the authorities, but viewed the investigation as unfounded.
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Volkswagen, the world's second-biggest automaker, has admitted it used sophisticated secret software to cheat exhaust emissions tests, deceiving regulators and customers about pollution from its diesel engines.
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The country has exempted battery-powered vehicles from the 25% value-added tax imposed on petrol and diesel engines, as well as other taxes levied on car purchases.
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Aramco has worked with European and American automakers to advance gasoline compression ignition, a technology that allows gas-powered engines to roughly match the efficiency of diesel engines.
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Bosch maintains that a letter seeking the guarantee has been misinterpreted and actually refers to a gasoline engine, not the diesel engines at the heart of the scandal.
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There are 11 million tainted diesel engines in more than 30 Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Seat and Skoda models, which were available around the world in dozens of variations.
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Allen Schaeffer is the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of diesel engines, fuel and technology.
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One allegation involves the dominant technology for treating exhaust from diesel engines, which before the emissions scandal accounted for more than half of new car sales in Europe.
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Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen has admitted it equipped diesel engines with software that detected when the vehicle was being tested and turned the emissions controls off during every day driving.
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"During start up of the main propulsion diesel engines, lube oil was not properly supplied to the ship's combining gears as required by ship's operating procedures," said Lt. Cmdr.
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EcoFlow says the Car Booster module holds enough power to jump start gasoline engines up to 4.0L / 2.8T or 3.5L diesel engines pulling a maximum of 350A at 12V.
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Back in September, the German auto maker was caught cheating on emission tests by programming the diesel engines to activate certain emissions controls only in a controlled lab environment.
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General Motors (GM) plans to expand U.S. availability of diesel engines in Chevrolet cars and light trucks, according to the Wall Street Journal, despite the VW emissions-cheating scandal.
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For decades India has maintained a similar pro-diesel policy, promoting a shift by consumers and carmakers such that, by 2013, some 55% of cars registered had diesel engines.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Daimler said diesel engines that French carmaker Renault supplies for its Mercedes-Benz brand do not contain defeat devices used to cheat on emissions tests.
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Tatang Soerawidjaja, chairman of the Indonesian Association of Bioenergy Scientists and Technologists, said extensive tests have shown that B20 poses "no problems" for diesel engines, even in older models.
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In the VW case, the mainstream German automaker rigged the software controlling two diesel engines to recognize when a vehicle was undergoing emissions tests and then adjust pollution levels.
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DE) Porsche brand is seeking 200 million euros ($234 million) in damages from its luxury stablemate Audi over costs related to manipulated diesel engines, Bild newspaper reported on Friday.
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Volkswagen spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan said in a statement the automaker will continue to evaluate diesel engines for the U.S. market, but the company has not disclosed future product decisions.
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They were proposing to sell the Australians an enlarged version of the 4,200-ton Soryu, which is powered by a combination of advanced diesel engines and lithium-ion batteries.
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European carmakers have invested heavily in diesel engines, which produce less of the carbon that causes global warming than gasoline, but more of other pollutants blamed for causing disease.
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The company will use the fines to compensate 220006,2202 owners of vehicles with 2628-liter diesel engines, with owners receiving between $28500,6900 and $2628,28503, depending on the vehicle's age.
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According to the New York suit, Mr. Müller and Mr. Winterkorn were informed in 2006 that Audis with 3-liter diesel engines needed additional equipment to meet American standards.
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The automaker has claimed that its new diesel engines will hit the European Union's beefed-up emissions targets by improving filters and building in electric generators to start cars.
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Even this new design with diesel engines would not be enough to make a round trip across the Pacific without surfacing and exposing itself for detection, the officials said.
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Renschler and Clarke said joint development of common hardware and software for connecting trucks to the internet, and of next-generation large diesel engines, could slash the companies' costs.
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It's only here, just off I-94, that the stillness is disturbed by the downshifting diesel engines and hissing air brakes of 18-wheelers pulling into the weigh station.
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Cars made by Mitsubishi equipped with 1.6 litre and 2.2 litre four-cylinder diesel engines are being investigated over the possible use of an illegal defeat device, it added.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany is considering "effective measures" to cut pollution from diesel engines, the transport ministry said on Saturday, reacting to a media report saying planned goals were unambitious.
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Seeking to end the sale of combusion-engine cars by the middle of the next decade, Norway exempts battery-powered vehicles from taxes imposed on petrol and diesel engines.
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The engine is also cheaper than today's advanced turbo-charged diesel engines, Nissan engineers said at the briefing at the company's technical and design center in Atsugi, south of Tokyo.
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The repair plan for the larger 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines in VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles that were later implicated in the emissions-cheating scandal are due by Feb.
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It is difficult to quantify the impacts of noise pollution in urban areas, but, well, imagine a dense urban area without big diesel engines roaring to life every few seconds.
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But the tests they were conducting on the exhaust fumes, meant to prove the cleanliness of modern diesel engines, uncovered one of the biggest and boldest frauds in corporate history.
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Premium brand Audi only admitted in November 2015 that its 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device which was deemed illegal in the United States.
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Premium brand Audi only admitted in November 2015 that its 3.0 liter V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device which was deemed illegal in the United States.
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Fiat Chrysler (FCX) and Cummins (CMI) are at odds over the $200 million estimated cost of a recall involving 130,000 Dodge Ram pickup trucks equipped with Cummins-made diesel engines.
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Prosecutors in Munich, state capital of Bavaria where VW's Audi brand is based, are investigating 18 current and former employees of the premium carmaker over suspected manipulation of diesel engines.
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The engine is also cheaper than today's advanced turbo-charged diesel engines, Nissan engineers said at the briefing at the company's technical and design center in Atsugi, south of Tokyo.
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German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports that the company has devised a new catalyst for 430,000 of the affected vehicles that use first-generation (EA189) 2.0-liter TDI diesel engines.
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The Spiegel report said that cartel-like behaviour may have also applied to vehicle developments, brakes, petrol and diesel engines, clutches and transmissions, citing a letter sent to cartel authorities.
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The U.S. government alleged that Detroit Diesel violated the Clean Air Act by selling nearly 25.3,244 heavy-duty diesel engines in 22.7 without properly certifying they complied with emissions standards.
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Volkswagen, the world's second-biggest automaker, admitted in September it had used sophisticated secret software to cheat exhaust emissions tests, deceiving regulators and customers about pollution from its diesel engines.
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The Spiegel report said that cartel-like behavior may have also applied to vehicle developments, brakes, petrol and diesel engines, clutches and transmissions, citing a letter sent to cartel authorities.
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Mazda Motor said on Thursday it would recall a total of 2.3 million vehicles worldwide over potential problems with their rear gates, along with a separate issue involving diesel engines.
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Advanced internal combustion systems power today's newest ships, which are equipped with large diesel engines using blended marine fuels that are cheap and dirty left-over byproducts of world refining.
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French investigators have referred Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for possible prosecution over abnormal emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants from some of its diesel engines, the government said on Monday.
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But fears among drivers of possible restrictions and short supplies of vehicles with the latest Euro 6d generation of diesel engines will weigh on sales in coming months, analysts said.
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Compatible with gasoline and diesel engines of up to 7 liters with a 12-volt battery, it also functions as a charger that can juice up to three devices simultaneously.
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The models with the cheating software include Volkswagen, as well as Audi and Porsche cars with 2-liter or 3-liter diesel engines from the model years 2008 to 2015.
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The models with the cheating software in the United States include Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche cars with 2-liter or 3-liter diesel engines from the model years 2008-15.
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Because electric and hybrid cars are less profitable than cars with petrol and diesel engines, BMW is looking for savings by reducing the complexity of its engine and equipment portfolio.
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In the meantime, he said FCA will try to meet future emissions regulations without relying so heavily on diesel engines, but with a combination of gasoline engines and electric motors.
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Despite the wide use of diesel engines, Italy's electricity sector doesn't burn a massive amount of coal, Massetti said — rather, it is driven largely by natural gas and renewable energy.
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This year, for example, several large German cities will ban cars with older diesel engines from their urban core, based on European Union limits on nitrogen dioxide in the air.
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A decade ago, China bought Jeeps made in Michigan by Chrysler, bulldozers and other construction equipment made in Illinois by Caterpillar and huge diesel engines made in Indiana by Cummins.
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But Londoners could soon find it harder to track down soft-serve on a hot day, because of fears that pollutants from the trucks' diesel engines may be endangering lives.
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Until recently more than half of new cars sold in Europe had diesel engines, largely because of tax breaks that ensure that diesel fuel is less expensive at the pump.
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All four of the models have 3-liter diesel engines with a pollution control system that uses a spray of a chemical solution to neutralize nitrogen oxides in the exhaust.
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The news is the latest setback in the German company's efforts to move on from a 2015 scandal in which it admitted to cheating U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines.
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Last month, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer approved a $14.7 billion settlement under which Volkswagen has agreed to buy back or repair 475,000 vehicles equipped with four-cylinder diesel engines.
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Seeking to become the first country to end the sale of fossil-fueled cars by 2025, Norway exempts battery-powered vehicles from the taxes imposed on petrol and diesel engines.
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No longer thick as "pea soup," as it was traditionally described, the city's air is now laced with nitrogen dioxide — a toxic gas mostly produced by vehicles with diesel engines.
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That will be driven by a number of factors, including improvements with each generation of batteries and vehicles, as well as expected increased regulatory costs on gasoline and diesel engines.
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Prosecutors searched the Munich offices of Jones Day in March 2017 in connection with a fraud probe related to 3.0 liter diesel engines made by VW's premium unit Audi (NSUG.DE).
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CEO Oliver Blume told Sunday's Bild am Sonntag newspaper that, although Porsche itself never developed and produced diesel engines, its image has suffered from the scandal that erupted in 2015.
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Previously, Mr. Müller and the chief executives of BMW and Daimler insisted that diesel engines with the latest antipollution equipment were clean and that the technology still had a future.
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Swedish carmaker Volvo's latest generation of diesel engines could be its last as the cost of reducing emissions of nitrogen oxide is becoming too much, Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson said.
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Some models in the Mercedes A-, B- and C-Class families are equipped with Renault diesel engines under a partnership deal struck in 2010 between Daimler and the Renault-Nissan alliance.
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He writes:In 1988 I read a paper by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, linking the exhaust from diesel engines to premature death in laboratory mice and rats.
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Stadler is the most senior company official to be detained so far since Volkswagen (VW) admitted in September 2015 to using illegal software to rig U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines.
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In Germany, around 30,000 vehicles diesel vehicles fitted with 6-cylinder diesel engines may have been fitted with an illegal software emissions device, German weekly magazine Spiegel reported earlier on Tuesday.
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The Ingolstadt-based automaker admitted in November to using illicit emissions-control devices in about 85,000 3.0 liter diesel engines, and submitted proposals for technical fixes to U.S. authorities last month.
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Fiat Chrysler, Cummins — Fiat Chrysler and Cummins are at odds over the $200 million estimated cost of a recall involving 130,000 Dodge Ram pickup trucks equipped with Cummins-made diesel engines.
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AUDI's ROLE IN DIESELGATE Volkswagen Group was plunged into crisis in 252 after U.S. regulators found Europe's biggest carmaker had equipped cars with software to cheat emissions tests on diesel engines.
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PARIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - French investigators have referred Renault for possible prosecution over abnormal emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants from some of its diesel engines, the government said on Wednesday.
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Engineers had quickly realized the diesel engines they were designing for vehicles targeted at the U.S. market could not meet government clean air standards while appealing to customers, the indictment stated.
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Older diesel engines emit air pollutants linked to a range of serious health problems including asthma, lung and heart disease, other respiratory ailments, and premature death, the Environmental Protection Agency said.
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Mazda Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall a total of 2.3 million vehicles worldwide over potential problems with their rear gates, along with a separate issue involving diesel engines.
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Some of those cars have different versions of Volkswagen's 2.0-liter diesel engines that require a more complicated software fix and possibly additional hardware to reduce their emissions to acceptable levels.
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California had set a Tuesday deadline under state law for VW to submit a plan to recall and fix the vehicles with diesel engines that were designed by its Audi unit.
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That is a huge change for the prestigious, biennial international show, which used to celebrate the power, durability and economy of diesel engines — the dominant type of automotive motor in Europe.
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All the models had diesel engines, which are more fuel efficient than gasoline motors but produce more nitrogen oxides, a family of gases linked to lung ailments, premature deaths and smog.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi is being probed by German prosecutors for suspected use of illegal defeat devices installed in diesel engines, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
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The automaker, which also specialises in highly-efficient diesel engines, on Thursday launched a new CX-8 model in Japan, which is only available as a diesel model at the moment.
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The reputation of Germany's flagship manufacturing industry is still suffering from a scandal that erupted in 2015 when Volkswagen admitted to rigging millions of diesel engines to cheat on emissions tests.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly warned against "demonizing" diesel engines, a German government spokeswoman said on Wednesday after Britain announced a plan to ban combustion-powered cars by 2040.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Thursday announced a recall of Porsche Cayenne models equipped with 3-litre diesel engines after finding potentially illegal emissions controlling software in the vehicles.
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Wissmann said he was worried about diesel's market share falling because modern diesel engines emit 15 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline-powered cars and can therefore help to reduce carbon emissions.
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But the railways ministry said last week it wouldn't need diesel engines after all - hoping to save on fuel and maintenance costs - and suggested GE might want to make electric locomotives instead.
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I SINCERELY HOPE THAT WE CAN RESOLVE IT VERY, VERY QUICKLY AND GET CERTIFICATION UNDER 2017 DIESEL ENGINES ARE AVAILABLE TO BE INSTALLED IN BOTH THE GRAND CHEROKEE AND THE RAM 1500.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen has approached several companies to gauge their appetite for buying MAN Energy Solutions, which makes large diesel engines for ships and power generators, people close to the matter said.
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Reuters reported this month that Renault expects diesel engines to disappear from most of its European cars after the French automaker reviewed the costs of meeting tighter emissions standards following Volkswagen's scandal.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will discuss a national plan to cut pollution from diesel engines and set up a new organization to test vehicles to try to restore consumer confidence after Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.
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Vehicles with diesel engines accounted for more than 23 percent of the Volkswagen brand cars sold in the United States in August 2015, a month before the emissions cheating came to light.
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VW said on Sunday that Germany's KBA had signed off on a fix for models with smaller 1.2-litre diesel engines, such as the Polo subcompact and Spanish division Seat's Ibiza model.
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ROME (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler diesel engines have been tested and they comply with emissions regulations, Italy's Transport Minister Graziano Delrio said on Tuesday, after German media reported that irregularities had been found.
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Carmakers use both platinum and sister metal palladium in autocatalysts, but platinum is used more in diesel engines whose popularity plummeted after Volkswagen was found to have cheated emissions tests in 2015.
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But there is something unusual about the big rigs sold by the Fitzgeralds: They are equipped with rebuilt diesel engines that do not need to comply with rules on modern emissions controls.
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The power of rapidly spinning electric motors -- they can go much faster than gas or diesel engines -- can be multiplied through gears resulting in high pulling power at low speeds, he said.
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These conversions tend not to be cheap, but they're a particularly interesting option in Europe, where a number of major cities are restricting or outright banning diesel engines from their downtown areas.
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A fraction of the width of a human hair, these particles can be released from vehicles, particularly those with diesel engines, and by industry, as well as from natural sources like dust.
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Though Volkswagen has admitted that its employees rigged diesel engines to produce artificially low emissions during lab tests, the company has insisted that no members of its current management board were involved.
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HAMBURG/BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen is taking another $3 billion charge to fix diesel engines in the United States, lifting the total bill for its emissions-test cheating scandal to around $30 billion.
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Audi admitted in November 2015 that its 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States that allowed vehicles to evade U.S. emissions limits.
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The proposed settlement filed late Tuesday before Judge Charles R. Breyer in U.S. District Court in San Francisco covers owners of some 78,000 Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche cars with 3.0-liter diesel engines.
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Besides selling Renault-branded vehicles, the company also uses its plants to manufacture vehicles for its partner, Nissan, and for Daimler, and it is a specialist in making diesel engines for other automakers.
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The states charged that dozens of VW employees at various levels knew that the company's "clean diesel" engines could not meet pollution standards in normal driving without compromises to performance or fuel economy.
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The company also announced a domestic recall of around 110,000 vehicles produced between August 2014 and August 2016 including the Mazda 3 and CX-3 over a computer problem with their diesel engines.
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In the US, roughly 600,000 cars are affected by the scandal, which involved the use of software to evade emissions testing and make the company's diesel engines seem cleaner than they actually were.
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The suit, which was filed Thursday and seeks class-action status, alleged GM placed emissions test defeat devices in 705,000 Sierra HD and Silverado models of heavy-duty trucks with Duramax diesel engines.
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December 2014: VW offers to recalibrate the first and second generation EA 103 diesel engines as part of regular service work in the hope that the engines will then pass muster with CARB.
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It will cut 27 staff as of February due to a 35-percent slump in demand for diesel engines made at its factory outside Zilina, northern Slovakia, versus 2017, it said on Monday.
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During a meeting in July 2015 of high-ranking Volkswagen managers to discuss regulatory issues around the world, diesel engines in the United States was one item out of six on the agenda.
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The fines would be for the environmental damage caused by the company's diesel engines, which were designed to fool emissions tests and often exceeded allowable air pollution limits in on-the-road driving.
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In the same way I go to Europe now and exchange the roar of American gas motors for the rattle of diesel engines, I could visit China and hear the whisper of electrics.
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However, Weichai has shown some resilience by focusing on new product and new market development, for instance its 99353-13 litre large diesel engines and product application of HDT in the logistics industry.
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That would leave roughly $2 billion available for the company to pay penalties to regulators in Europe and other parts of the world in which cars equipped with its diesel engines were sold.
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In the case of VW's 2015 diesel emissions scandal, also known as Dieselgate, the company has accelerated its plans for electric vehicles, and safety regulators have implemented more stringent testing on diesel engines.
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In addition to Volkswagen and Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz all offer luxury models with diesel engines, although those vehicles make up a small fraction of the companies' total sales.
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"Diesel engines have been amazing at reducing fuel consumption, but the pollution they produce is costly to treat and the arc of transportation technology is bending towards electrification," he told CNBC via email.
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Instead, combustion is set off by the extreme heat in the cylinder that results from the piston inside the engine traveling upward and compressing air trapped inside, the same method diesel engines use.
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On Wednesday, German carmakers BMW, Audi and truck manufacturer MAN agreed with the regional government in Bavaria to cut nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel engines, a likely precursor to the national plan.
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Specifically, it concerned V6 and V8 diesel engines manufactured by Audi and installed in Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche brands, and Audi vehicles equipped with EA 189 and EA 288 engine made by Volkswagen.
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Between drayage (port) trucks, freight ships, refrigerator trailers, long-haul trucks, buses, generators, and all the other dirty diesel engines out there, the company estimates that clean-up is a $100 billion market.
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A 2000 percent tariff would raise costs for Ford Motor Co's U.S.-assembled F-series and medium-duty pickup trucks that use Mexican-made diesel engines, one of its most profitable vehicle lines.
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Detroit-based GM has accumulated more than $15 billion of losses at its Opel arm since 20173 but has held onto its European operations to allow it to develop compact cars and diesel engines.
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In the hugely competitive market for small cars, a higher price can steer consumers towards petrol cars, which are less efficient than diesel engines and hence produce more carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
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Audi admitted in November 2015 that its 3 litre V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States because it enabled vehicles to evade U.S. emission limits.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German motor authority KBA has ordered a recall of Audi A6 and A7 models with 3.0 liter Euro 6 diesel engines after finding illegal emissions software in them, Germany's Transport Ministry said.
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Audi said it would update the software of the 203,997 A8 model vehicles with 4.2 litre V8 diesel engines, of which 3,660 are in Germany and were made between September 2013 and August 2017.
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Existing diesel engines would need minor tweaks to be able to run on the new 100-percent biodiesel fuel, which would allow it to run for the same distance as standard diesel, Puig said.
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These Silicon Valley disrupters are not confining their ambitions to sedans; instead, they have announced plans for electric semis, electric pickups, electric buses, and various other products that defy the preeminence of diesel engines.
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EPA and the California Air Resources Board said Fiat Chrysler failed to disclose engine management software in 104,000 U.S. 2014-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0-liter diesel engines.
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It sees earnings at the vans division dropping significantly after German regulator KBA last month ordered the recall of Mercedes-Benz Vito vans fitted with 1.6 litre diesel engines, saying they breached emissions rules.
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The spike in electric car production in Europe will not offset an overall increase in global greenhouse gas emissions as emerging economies industrialize and buy cars with petrol and diesel engines, Al Khowaiter said.
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Volkswagen still faces billions of dollars in potential civil and potential criminal U.S. fines for violating emissions laws, as well as a potential costly buy-back of vehicles equipped with 21.8 liter diesel engines.
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Goldman sees catalysts around the world, including the move away from diesel engines in Europe, a value-added tax cut in South Korea and a drop in gasoline prices relative to biofuel in Brazil.
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Audi admitted in November 2015 that its 3 liter V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States because it enabled vehicles to evade U.S. emission limits.
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Audi admitted in November 2015, two months after parent Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal broke, that its 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States.
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Both metals are used in the vehicle industry for emissions-cutting catalytic converters but platinum is used more in diesel engines which have fallen out of favor following the Volkswagen emissions scandal in 2015.
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Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Vito models with diesel engines and a sports utility variant of the sedan, known as the GLC, were the main cars found to be at fault, the ministry said.
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Zetsche also said that Daimler had sold more Mercedes-Benz cars with diesel engines so far this year than in the year-earlier period, despite talk of possible diesel bans in some German cities.
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Ford Germany said in an emailed statement on Thursday that all its vehicles and engines, including those with its latest diesel engines, complied with current emissions guidelines and did not contain illegal software devices.
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Audi admitted in November 2015, two months after parent Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal broke, that its 3.0 liter V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States.
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Sales of driver assistance systems would generate 2 billion euros in sales this year, Bosch said, adding that it had let go of 600 staff working on diesel engines after a slump in demand.
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VW admitted in September 2015 to using illegal "defeat device" software in the United States to disguise the true level of toxic emissions from diesel engines, sparking the biggest business crisis in its history.
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However, the results of a study into VW diesel engines commissioned by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and investigations by U.S. regulators from May 2014 could constitute insider information, the court said.
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Although a handful of people wandered about on foot or by golf cart, the streets were eerily quiet, the only noises the rumble of diesel engines or the pitch of a state trooper's siren.
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DE) in 2015 ended a fraught partnership in which Suzuki accused the German automaker of wanting to bring its under its control, while VW objected to Suzuki's purchase of diesel engines from Fiat (FCHA.
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Last fall, Germany wrote a letter to the European Commission accusing FCA of using an illegal device to switch off exhaust treatment systems in diesel engines in Fiat and Jeep vehicles sold in Europe.
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Earlier in the year, Fiat Chrysler paid a $85033 million settled with California and federal regulators for Jeep Grand Cherokees and Ram 1500 trucks with diesel engines that were manufactured from 2014 to 2016.
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Palma led a team of engineers who developed diesel engines and calibrated them with software allowing the vehicles to pollute less when undergoing government testing and more when driven on roads, U.S. officials said.
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Evidence collected by the law firm and shared with the American authorities formed the basis for Volkswagen's guilty plea in the United States last week over charges tied to emissions deception involving diesel engines.
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Palma led a team of engineers who developed diesel engines and calibrated them with software allowing the vehicles to pollute less when undergoing government testing and more when driven on roads, U.S. officials said.
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The Liberty patrols some of the world's most dangerous waters, and was preparing to go to sea from its home port in Auke Bay in mid-January when one of its diesel engines seized.
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It indicated that the cars had received a software update that was the first part of a two-stage process meant to bring the company's 2.0-liter diesel engines into compliance with emission controls.
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Here's the full email: In 1988 I read a paper by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, linking the exhaust from diesel engines to premature death in laboratory mice and rats.
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The first will use hydrogen to clean up existing diesel engines, increasing their fuel efficiency by a third and eliminating over half their air pollution, with an average nine-month payback, the company says.
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The Renk divestiture is expected to be followed by a sales process for MAN Energy Solutions, which makes diesel engines for use in ships and power stations, and whose separation Volkswagen also announced last month.
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Ram is redubbing the holdover model the 1500 Classic, and it will be offered in a limited number of trim, cab and bed configurations, but with a full lineup of V6, V8 and diesel engines.
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Audi, the biggest contributor to Volkswagen's profit, admitted in November 2015 its 3.0 liter V6 diesel engines were fitted with a device deemed illegal in the United States that allowed cars to evade emissions limits.
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Why it matters: Hydrogen-powered trains like the Coradia iLint could be built on un-electrified lines in areas where diesel engines are still used, which would greatly reduce harmful emissions typical of combustion technologies.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The decline of diesel engines will support the growing use of aluminum in vehicles as the auto industry pursues lighter models to meet emissions targets, the head of aluminum parts maker Constellium (CSTM.
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European governments are facing pressure to reduce the level of pollution in cities to address growing concerns about the long-term damage to public health of exposure to pollutants, particularly those from vehicle diesel engines.
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In Germany, the prosecutors are entering the final stretches of their investigation into Winterkorn and 20.50 other suspects about their alleged manipulation of diesel engines, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung quoted senior prosecutor Klaus Ziehe as saying.
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The most damning claim has echoes of "dieselgate": that the firms agreed in 2008 to install inadequately small tanks of urea, used to cut nitrogen-oxide emissions from diesel engines, in order to save cash.
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The special offers may focus on the owners of vehicles with 1.6-litre diesel engines, which require costly hardware upgrades rather than just software fixes, sources at Volkswagen and VW dealerships said, according to DPA.
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Volkswagen's luxury division admitted in November 2015 that its 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States that allowed vehicles to evade U.S. emission limits.
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"As long as electric cars only have a small market share, the optimisation of diesel engines is one of the most effective tools to achieve climate goals for reducing carbon dioxide in traffic," he said.
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The suit will concern vehicles with diesel engines of type EA 189, vzbv said, adding that it was its aim to determine that consumers had been intentionally harmed by the carmaker's use of manipulated software.
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Checks by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) showed that fuel consumption of some 2.0 liter diesel engines had increased following a software update to fix the problems, a spokesman for the company said.
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It has created a Special Committee on Diesel Engines headed by Wolfgang Porsche, head of the family clan that controls VW, to investigate the scandal and hired law firm Jones Day to find those responsible.
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TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mazda Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall a total of 2.3 million vehicles worldwide over potential problems with their rear gates, along with a separate issue involving diesel engines.
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Internal communications at Volkswagen used "dozens" of codewords to obfuscate the use of cheat software to make its diesel engines look cleaner than they actually were, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the ongoing investigation.
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"As long as electric cars only have a small market share, the optimization of diesel engines is one of the most effective tools to achieve climate goals for reducing carbon dioxide in traffic," he said.
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Distillate fuel oil is used mostly for high-horsepower diesel engines used in trucks, trains, barges and pipelines as well as some industrial engines, so demand is closely linked to manufacturing activity and freight movements.
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Located in a former workshop that rebuilt diesel engines for cargo ships, the gleaming complex, with its track lighting and exposed brick, sits across from the Red Hook Container Terminal, with its hulking cranes looming.
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The class action lawsuit seeks to ascertain whether owners of cars with type EA 189 diesel engines had been intentionally harmed by the carmaker's use of engine management software designed to disguise excessive pollution levels.
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VW admitted in September 2015 to using illegal software to cheat U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines, sparking the biggest crisis in the company's history and leading to a regulatory crackdown across the auto industry.
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But the Department of Sanitation — the city agency with the highest vehicle fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions — plans to buy 340 new refuse trucks this year, with at least 300 powered by diesel engines.
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Continental projects that 48-volt mild hybrid systems will account for 14 percent of global new vehicle sales in 2025, as sales of vehicles powered exclusively by gasoline or diesel engines drop to 65 percent.
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Carmakers such as Volvo and BMW – which yesterday announced it would build a fully electric Mini in the UK from 2019 - are also moving towards phasing out traditional petrol and diesel engines for electric models.
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The shift from gasoline to diesel cars was a strategic choice for European countries and it was encouraged with tax incentives, since diesel engines emit less carbon dioxide — a heat-trapping greenhouse gas — than petrol engines.
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A passion for fast, powerful cars among German drivers has fed demand for petrol and diesel engines, and Germany lags countries such as Norway and the Netherlands in subsidies and providing charging points for electric cars.
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Finally, electric buses are also just a much, much nicer experience — lower to the ground, roomier (diesel engines take up lots of space), not choked with the smell of fuel, and quieter, indeed close to silent.
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This portable battery can charge smartphones and tablets, but also claims to be able to start 6.0L gas and 3.0L diesel engines, and can provide a read-out of your car battery's voltage on its display.
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Sixty industry committees made up of about 200 employees discussed vehicle development, brakes, petrol and diesel engines, clutches and transmissions as well as exhaust treatment systems, Der Spiegel reported, citing a letter sent to cartel authorities.
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Volkswagen acknowledged in September that it had installed so-called defeat devices in cars with diesel engines, including about 600,000 in the United States, to get around limits on nitrogen oxide pollutants linked to lung ailments.
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The government says its tax increase of 7.6 euro cents ($0.09) a litre on diesel is part of a plan to align diesel and petrol taxes, to curb the small-particle pollution caused by diesel engines.
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The 56-year-old Stadler, once seen as a rising star at the Volkswagen, faces allegations that include fraud for helping conceal the fact that VW had rigged its diesel engines to illegally pass emissions tests.
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VW's main earnings contributor admitted in November 2015 that its 3.0 liter V6 diesel engines were fitted with an auxiliary control device deemed illegal in the United States that enabled vehicles to evade U.S. emission limits.
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The plant in Port Elizabeth produces 120,000 diesel engines per year for the Silverton plant, as well as 130,000 units per year for export to North America, China and Europe and 280,000 component sets per year.
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But bottom line: There's a lot of innovation in this sector, and now Volkswagen is throwing its know-how into the ring, hoping to recover from its disastrous foray into diesel engines and flagrant law-breaking.
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The new measuring devices will start rolling out in Europe this year for mandatory tests and could help improve diesel engines' reputation after scandals over carmakers' use of illegal defeat devices to manipulate exhaust emission tests.
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Daimler said on Monday that no diesel engines supplied by Renault were used in Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold in the United States, where the discovery of illegal software devices carries far higher penalties than in Europe.
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The German automaker's exports from Mexico have dropped every month since September, when the company became embroiled in a major global scandal over rigged emissions tests of cars with diesel engines sold in the United States.
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The carmaker had said the Spanish probe, accusing it of fraud in relation to exhaust emissions and pollution from its diesel engines, should be directed at its Spanish affiliates Seat, Volkswagen-Audi España and Volkswagen Navarra.
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MASHABA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until recently, farmers in this town in southern Zimbabwe struggled to water their crops, frustrated by poor rainfall and the regular breakdown of the diesel engines that powered their irrigation systems.
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The VM Motori plant in Ferrara, northern Italy, was already forced to put some of its 1,300 workers on temporary layoffs last year after demand for diesel engines dropped following the scandal that engulfed Germany's Volkswagen.
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The German-built ARA San Juan was launched in 1983 and underwent a local upgrade beginning in 2008 which included the replacement of its four diesel engines and its electric propeller engines, according to Jane's Sentinel.
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The cheating scandal has shaken the management tree at all nine of Volkswagen's brands, and has resulted in a seismic shift in the company's focus away from pollution-spewing diesel engines to clean electric power plants.
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As of August, Volkswagen had repurchased or modified more than 308,000 vehicles in the United States equipped with 2.0-liter diesel engines, at a cost of $6.4 billion, according to an independent auditor monitoring the process.
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ZURICH, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have halted registering some new Mercedes-Benz Vito and Porsche Macan and Cayenne vehicles whose diesel engines were manipulated to cloak emissions levels, the Astra roads agency said on Wednesday.
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Another $85033 billion will go to environmental mitigation for the nitrogen oxides and other pollutants that the diesel engines emitted above legal limits, while $2 billion will go toward research on zero-emissions technology for vehicles.
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Working from Volkswagen specifications, Bosch developed code that instructed computers in diesel engines to fully deploy pollution controls only when the cars were being tested in laboratories, according to lawsuits in the United States and Germany.
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From fertilizer produced with natural gas to tractors powered by diesel engines, and irrigation systems that pump water and refrigerators that prevent food from spoiling, natural gas, oil and coal are the energy that feeds America.
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Tumemenko, who identified Smich as one of the two passengers he took for a test drive from a photo lineup, told the court he mentioned being familiar with diesel engines from his time in the Israeli army.
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"At first, sleeping in the van was weird because you heard sounds you're not used to hearing — diesel engines running if you're at a travel center or something," Lauren says, adding that soon enough it became routine.
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The French Environment Ministry has been investigating various carmakers' vehicles in recent months, including Volkswagen's, after disclosures in September that 11 million Volkswagens with diesel engines had software that produced artificially low readings during official emissions tests.
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Despite agreeing on fixes and compensation deals in America, and pledging to rectify vehicles in Europe, VW still has to satisfy American authorities that it will do the same for larger diesel engines that were also affected.
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The email details how Dyson's original vision for the cyclonic motor that's a trademark ingredient in its hand dryers and vacuums was originally inspired by a desire to take emissions from diesel engines out of the air.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's industry chief said she saw diesel engines disappearing from markets much faster than expected as the European Parliament on Tuesday endorsed tougher rules aimed at preventing a rerun of the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal.
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Car makers, fearing a more widespread diesel ban, are looking at ways to circumvent the problem by resizing their diesel engines to below 2 litres to skirt the ban or by introducing petrol engines for their cars.
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But volumes will be lower than for internal combustion engines, because EV fluids won't need to be changed regularly: there's no fuel combustion to degrade the oils the way it does in regular gasoline and diesel engines.
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The VM Motori plant in Ferrara, northern Italy, was already forced to put some of its 1,300 workers on temporary layoffs last year after demand for diesel engines dropped following the scandal that engulfed Germany's Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE).
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BMW and its rivals are struggling to maintain profit levels amid heavy investment in new technology including electric and self-driving cars, cleaner diesel engines as well as new ride-hailing business models to rival Uber [UBER.UL].
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Blocking EPA attempt to end rule governing production of high-pollution diesel engines The EPA reversed a decision to cease enforcement of a rule surrounding the production of high-pollution engines after California and other states sued.
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Its latest technology is a variant of homogeneous charge combustion ignition (HCCI) technology, which marries the clean-burning qualities of gasoline engines and the fuel economy and grunt of diesel engines to produce an efficient, powerful engine.
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Investigations by Jones Day have shown that Stefan Knirsch, an Audi board member, knew about the use of cheat software in 3.0 liter diesel engines and gave a false promise under oath, the paper said on Sunday.
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Like palladium, the metal is also used in autocatalysts, but loadings are heavier in diesel engines, which are less popular in major markets like China and the United States, and which are losing market share in Europe.
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The agreement between Volkswagen and federal and state governments includes $4.7 billion for research into clean transportation and projects to offset the emissions from about 500,13 Volkswagen diesel engines that are polluting more than the law allows.
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The issue occurred during an operational test of the ship's port and starboard main propulsion diesel engines, when a lack of lube oil triggered high-temperature alarms on both sets of gears, a Navy official has said.
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It closes a major chapter in the ongoing worldwide scandal discovered last year, when VW admitted that it programmed vehicles to emit less nitrogen oxides from diesel engines during emissions tests than they do on the road.
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It added that figure did not include an estimated 2300-22.34 billion euros of costs for ongoing government and court proceedings related to an industry scandal over whether carmakers tried to cover up pollution from diesel engines.
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Mr. Liang, who helped develop the software that concealed high levels of pollutants generated by Volkswagen's diesel engines, reached a plea deal with prosecutors last year after agreeing to assist in the government's investigation of the company.
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Diesel engines have a reputation for lasting hundreds of thousands of miles and for good fuel economy; Mr. Heilbraun gets more than 41 miles per gallon on his daily 30-mile round trip to work, he said.
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Diesel engines have a reputation for lasting hundreds of thousands of miles and for good fuel economy; Mr. Heilbraun gets more than 41 miles per gallon on his daily 30-mile round trip to work, he said.
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To date, failures have been reported aboard: USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) -- a clutch failure in December 2015 USSFort Worth (LCS 3) -- $23 million worth of damage to both the vessel's diesel engines in January of this year.
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