However, the demand for gas and diesel-powered trucks is growing.
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Yet consumers, especially younger ones, are increasingly doubtful about diesel-powered cars.
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As owners of diesel-powered VW's, we're not looking for big payouts.
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Garbage fires, dung-powered cookstoves, diesel-powered vehicles and coal-fired power plants.
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DIESEL-powered cars appeal to European drivers for their fuel efficiency and power.
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Of course, those buyers are probably better served by a diesel-powered truck.
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Here is where a gas or diesel powered generator may come into play.
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Independent India's encouragement of diesel-powered borewells proved to be the baoli's death-knell.
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After losing generators, workers transferred products from the warehouses into diesel-powered refrigerated containers.
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In 2013 more than half the new cars sold in India were diesel-powered.
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The region's commuter rail line is saddled with aging, smoke-spewing, diesel-powered locomotives.
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France is pledging to ban all fossil fuel- and diesel-powered cars by 2040.
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Adgero, a French firm, is using Skeleton's devices to fit KERS to diesel-powered lorries.
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Europe faces not only the disruption of Brexit but declining sales of diesel-powered vehicles.
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They drive diesel-powered trucks and lawnmowers to avoid the interference caused by spark plugs.
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Volkswagen sold 10.7 million vehicles last year, almost all of them gas or diesel powered.
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And it has a load capacity comparable to current diesel-powered semis — around 26 tons.
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Enormous diesel-powered pumps had sent this slurry gushing through a thirty-inch steel pipe.
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Fiat Chrysler also sold 4,8 diesel-powered Jeep Grand Cherokees and 397 diesel ProMaster vans.
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It was diesel powered and carried missiles with nuclear warheads; it was not a nuclear submarine.
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This involves arming diesel-powered subs with nuclear-armed cruise missiles with a range of 700km.
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Japan is adept at making the type of quiet-running, diesel-powered vessels the Australians sought.
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Earlier, Rosselló said 36 hospitals were open, with power delivered regularly or through diesel-powered generators.
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They are convinced that regulators will keep loading more rules onto gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.
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He also banned the use of all diesel-powered electricity generators for the next 10 days.
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With a storage warehouse warming up, the crew transferred the chemicals to diesel-powered refrigerated trailers.
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Driving older diesel-powered cars in Central London now costs 24 pounds per day on weekdays.
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Sagging sales and a regulatory crackdown on diesel-powered vehicles are now forcing GM to redraw plans.
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The captain indicates that the battery- and diesel-powered sub would continue traveling with its stern batteries.
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Platinum is used in catalysts in diesel-powered vehicles, which are going out of favor in Europe.
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Today, power generation on Vendée Globe boats has virtually eliminated the need for diesel-powered electricity generation.
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The boats are expected to take 23,000 diesel-powered trucks off the roads, according to the Guardian.
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In Europe, carmakers are struggling to adhere to tougher pollution rules for gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.
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The company wanted to replace its aging diesel-powered crane with a new, and faster, electric one.
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The diesel-powered submarines would be fast and quiet and would help keep adversaries far away, he added.
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France and the UK will look to ban the sale of gas and diesel-powered vehicles by 2040.
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The vehicles were parked in a studio facing up to competing diesel-powered trucks from Freightliner and International.
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The scandal involved cheating technology installed on Volkswagen diesel-powered vehicles to circumvent U.S. clean-air emissions standards.
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That compares to less than a thousand pound-feet produced by GM's own diesel-powered heavy duty pickups.
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These were made from lead-acid, and are still used to start gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles today.
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Sagging sales and a regulatory crackdown on diesel-powered vehicles are now forcing GM to redraw revise its plans.
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Sagging sales and a regulatory crackdown on diesel-powered vehicles had forced GM to redraw its plans in India.
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Volvo Trucks plans to test its new electric VNR truck, a refitted version of its diesel-powered VNR model.
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For pretending that its diesel-powered cars polluted less than it said, VW has proposed to pay $15 billion.
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These days, an airframe that can't cruise at supersonic speeds might as well be a diesel-powered propeller plane.
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Like much of the U.S. territory, Barrio Obrero has been running for weeks on an unreliable diesel-powered generator.
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Among the most ambitious of the projects envisioned is one to build its own fleet of diesel-powered submarines.
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That frees up lots of room for something that gas- and diesel-powered trucks usually lack, lockable storage space.
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The emissions issue has essentially stopped Fiat Chrysler's domestic sales of diesel-powered Ram 1500 trucks and Grand Cherokees.
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European manufacturers have been trying for years to build a following for diesel-powered cars in the United States.
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With the grid incapacitated, diesel-powered generators are needed to clean and move water where it needs to go.
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Countries such as China, India, France, Norway, and Britain are floating plans to ban gas and diesel-powered vehicles.
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Without electricity, many health and sanitation systems will go offline or go back to relying on diesel-powered generators.
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Four of the disastrous K-class steam submarines (K18 through K21) were reconfigured into the diesel-powered M-class.
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The goal is to steadily replace Europe's diesel-powered trains, which spew toxic soot and carbon dioxide into the air.
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Last year the U.K. and France announced plans to phase out sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2040.
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The company also reached a $20163 million settlement with the owners of 100,000 diesel-powered Jeep SUVs and Ram pickup.
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The plant lost refrigeration when backup generators were flooded, and workers transferred products from warehouses into diesel-powered refrigerated containers.
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The "Land Speed Record" for diesel-powered cars was set in 2006 with JCB&aposs Dieselmax, which achieved 350.092 mph.
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Luxury sedans and small sport utility vehicles jostled for the spotlight along with electric cars and diesel-powered pickup trucks.
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It ruled that cities can ban diesel-powered vehicles to tackle air pollution in cases that pitted environmentalists against carmakers.
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Ford's profits still rely heavily on those gasoline- and diesel-powered cars and trucks being turned out one-a-minute.
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Diesel-powered cars make up about half the market in Europe with consumers looking for alternatives since the scandal broke.
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In effect, this could allow some oil and diesel-powered cars to be sold, depending on the enforcement of the target. .
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The result: millions of stinky, diesel-powered vehicles fill Indian cities, after carmakers and buyers shifted to the more "economical" fuel.
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Sales of diesel-powered cars fell, tracking a broader European trend, while sales of cars with hybrid and electric motors rose.
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And the also-diesel-powered 2016 Range Rover Sport Td43 following us was being blanketed in my Defender's sooty diesel exhaust.
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Using diesel-powered generators during a fuel shortage can double the cost of a job renovating a damaged apartment, he said.
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The 459-foot cruise ship is equipped with battery packs that support its low sulfur, diesel-powered, Rolls Royce-built engines.
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The water flooded buildings and destroyed diesel-powered electricity generators that were supposed to keep critical systems functioning in a blackout.
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New nuclear facilities require, at minimum, more than a decade of heavy construction, with all the diesel-powered equipment that entails.
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In November, the authorities ordered Audi Volkswagen Korea, the local subsidiary, to recall 126,000 diesel-powered vehicles after revoking their certifications.
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The company will recall 104,703 diesel-powered Ram 1500 trucks and Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles to install new software.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the status of Fiat Chrysler's production of diesel-powered vehicles for consumers.
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She pledged to increase financial aid to cities trying to fight air pollution, but expressed opposition to banning diesel-powered vehicles.
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That increase is forecast to be helped by government mandates to cut tailpipe emissions by banning gasoline and diesel-powered cars.
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Anglo American claims the vehicle will be capable of performing just as well, if not better, than its diesel-powered counterparts.
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Electric cars are coming close to matching gasoline- and diesel-powered cars in purchase price and they already cost less to operate.
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It attributed the fall to the German automaker's diesel emissions scandal and VW's decision to stop selling diesel-powered vehicles in Canada.
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So they could play an important role in reducing pollution and noise by taking trips away from petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles.
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A day later, France's government announced an ambitious plan to stop all domestic sales of gas- and diesel-powered cars by 2040.
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German weekly Die Zeit earlier on Wednesday reported that some diesel powered Daimler cars may have been manipulated to pass emissions tests.
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Diesel-powered cars account for less than one percent of the Mercedes brand's car sales in the U.S. this year, he added.
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Diesel-powered cars have dominated the European market for years, accounting for more than half of all new passenger cars in 2013.
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It would also phase out diesel-powered buses and replace them with cleaner buses which run on compressed natural gas, or CNG.
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With a diesel-powered generator in their Caracas bureau, Reuters staff are better-placed than most Venezuelans to cope with the blackouts.
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An earlier version of this article overstated the impact of the emissions issue on Fiat Chrysler's domestic sales of diesel-powered trucks.
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All are trying to profit on the expectation the world will eventually move from gas- and diesel-powered vehicles into electric models.
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Still, concerns over the pollution created by diesel-powered vehicles mean that electric car prototypes dominated the Paris car show last week.
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The plant lost refrigeration when backup generators were flooded and then workers transferred products from the warehouses into diesel-powered refrigerated containers.
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MI) marketing of diesel-powered SUVs, as British regulators sought answers from the Italian-American automaker in the aftermath of Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.
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Consumer demand for gasoline in the United States, India and China is strong while business demand for diesel-powered freight is much weaker.
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Since the storm, contractors have had to bring in diesel-powered generators to power the machinery, a cumbersome and expensive task, Contreras said.
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On Thursday afternoon, Volkswagen agreed to fix or buy back roughly 500,000 of its diesel-powered models in the U.S affected by dieselgate.
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Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) Plug-in hybrids have a conventional gas- or diesel-powered engine in addition to a battery pack.
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China this month joined other countries, including Britain and France, to say they will eventually ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.
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Most important, he promises its vehicles will be cheaper than their traditional, diesel-powered competitors, even if battery prices don't continue to fall.
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Even the plans in Europe to ban the sale of new gas- or diesel-powered cars will take decades to fully kick in.
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They are still pulled by dirty diesel-powered locomotives, but the panels run the lights, fans and information displays, which saves some fuel.
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In September, the EPA accused VW of cheating on emissions tests on 582,000 diesel-powered vehicles sold in the US between 2009 and 2015.
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Revenue at the company's transportation business, which makes diesel-powered locomotives, fell 14 percent in the third quarter from the same period last year.
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The noisy diesel-powered machine clatters around the clock for several days until the drill strikes water, generally about 260 feet (80 meters) down.
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Separately, Daimler said on Friday that it will continue to sell diesel-powered vehicles in the United States, in contrast to German rival Volkswagen.
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Volkswagen has agreed to pay $1 billion to owners of diesel-powered cars with devices designed to sidestep federal emissions tests, according to reports.
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Also, P.S., road salt is terrible for the environment and so are diesel-powered plows, which cough lots of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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Affected models included the diesel-powered versions of some of the VW brand's most popular cars, such as the Golf, Jetta, Beetle and Passat.
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Once, he owned a diesel-powered car, having bought it after being told it had lower carbon emissions than a regular gas-powered car.
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With the storage warehouse warming up, the crew transferred the chemicals to diesel-powered refrigerated trailers, but some of those stopped working as well.
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Some members of the European Parliament criticized Mr. Tajani for failing to do enough in that role to address emissions from diesel-powered cars.
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Smith sees a big opportunity to demonstrate the responsible deployment of autonomy as well as clean up yards filled with diesel-powered yard trucks.
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It still faces billions more in costs to address 85,000 polluting 3.0-liter diesel-powered vehicles and Justice Department fines for violating clean air laws.
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Battling its own smog problem, Bogotá now has a pilot project to replace its rapid transit system's diesel-powered buses with Chinese-made electric vehicles.
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Still, for any country to completely stop selling new gas and diesel powered vehicles would be a major step toward accelerating adoption of electric vehicles.
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Thousands of square miles of Louisiana are in the process of disappearing; they cannot be replaced by diesel-powered engines an acre at a time.
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Fiat Chrysler has become the latest automaker to turn its back on diesel-powered engines as more of the industry pivots to battery-electric vehicles.
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Porsche will no longer make diesel-powered vehicles, opting instead to invest more money into electric and hybrid technology, the company said over the weekend.
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Tests found that some Fiat Chrysler diesel-powered vehicles emitted up to 25 times more nitrogen-oxide than allowed under federal law, USA Today reports.
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Sales of diesel-powered vehicles, which use more platinum than gasoline engines, are stabilising after rapid falls following Volkswagen's "dieselgate" scandal in 0003, Fritsch said.
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Pressure is mounting globally for Volkswagen, which admitted in September 2015 that it had used emissions-cheating software in 11 million diesel-powered cars worldwide.
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The company expects the ship to reduce carbon emissions by eliminating about 40,000 trips each year that would otherwise be made by diesel-powered trucks.
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Those tax breaks have ensured that diesel is significantly cheaper at the pump, leading to a steady rise in the popularity of diesel-powered cars.
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That's unusual in an electric car because, unlike gasoline and diesel-powered cars, electric cars don't actually require a transmission with more than one speed.
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Along the river were small camps of prospectors, who had set up diesel-powered pumps and wooden sluices and were noisily gouging away the riverbanks.
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And electricity — instead of having diesel-powered tractors and trucks, they'll now have battery-powered vehicles, and they'll be able to plug them in and recharge.
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BERLIN – Drivers of older diesel-powered trucks are now prohibited from using two road sections in Hamburg, the first German city to implement such a ban.
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Nunavut is not on Canada's hydroelectric power grid, so diesel-powered energy is the biggest ongoing cost, at 30 to 35 Canadian cents per kilowatt hour.
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It has also seen a sharp decline in sales of diesel-powered products, the VW brand itself no longer offering them in the critical U.S. market.
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Public awareness of these unwelcome side effects grew quickly after Volkswagen was caught in 2016 disguising the amount of pollution spewed by its diesel-powered cars.
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Those who couldn't afford diesel-powered grain-milling services often had to grind their staple foods of cassava and maize by hand, a time-consuming activity.
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Sales in Europe have declined sharply in recent years as several countries have announced the phasing out of diesel-powered cars that emit polluting nitrogen oxides.
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The costs of constructions are astronomically more than traditional diesel-powered trains, but maglev is more sustainable and faster, which is why China is so bullish.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German court in Braunschweig, Germany said on Thursday it had rejected a case seeking compensation for German owners of diesel powered Volkswagen (VOWG_p.
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Dangote hopes to meet the fuel needs of Africa's most populous nation, where poor power supply forces families and businesses to rely on diesel-powered generators.
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GE is looking to partner, spin off or possibly sell operations which primarily produce diesel-powered locomotives and railroad equipment, the sources said in the report.
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Though more fuel-efficient than petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles, hybrids, introduced in 1997 with Toyota's Prius, are currently classed alongside those powered by fossil fuels.
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That reputation has already been badly tarnished by Volkswagen's admission that it illegally installed software in its diesel-powered cars to evade standards for reducing smog.
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There's also a diesel-powered extender along with the generator for longer truck use that is quiet and has lower emissions than a typical truck engine.
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And Alstom executives say that it would be cheaper to replace the diesel-powered trains with hydrogen vehicles than to string electric lines along the tracks.
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He watched his grade-school-age brothers drive the diesel-powered loader, carrying corn and doing chores to help keep their family's struggling Wisconsin dairy afloat.
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It also ordered that roads be doused with water to settle dust, and banned diesel-powered electricity generators for 10 days except at hospitals and cellphone towers.
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In 2016 it lost out on a lucrative contract to supply Australia with a fleet of diesel-powered submarines, work that went to French naval contractor DCNS.
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In January, FCA agreed to settle allegations from federal regulators that the company used software on about 104,000 diesel-powered pickups and SUVs to trick emissions tests.
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Currently, VW and Audi are blocked from selling their diesel-powered cars for the 2016 model year here in the U.S. until its emissions scandal is sorted.
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The budget minister also announced plans to shift green incentives from hybrids to pure-electric cars and begin phasing out fuel tax advantages for diesel-powered fleets.
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But, with sales of petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles peaking, and scores of new electric and hybrid cars appearing on the market, it is staging a comeback.
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Why this matters: Previously, the Netherlands and India, too, said they were banning the sale of new gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2025 and 2030, respectively.
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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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The package includes 2.2 trillion won to battle pollution, including subsidies for replacing old diesel-powered cars, buying air purifiers and encouraging use of renewable energy technologies.
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France's environment minister Nicolas Hulot just announced an ambitious goal aimed at curbing climate change: Stopping the sale of all gasoline-or-diesel-powered cars by 2040.
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The electric version of the Transit, which is currently available in gasoline- and diesel-powered versions, will be available in the United States and Canada in 2021.
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The German automaker has admitted to using computer software to dodge pollution controls in millions of diesel-powered cars, including nearly 600,000 sold in the United States.
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The wide range depends on market conditions: Fleet owners need parity in the total cost of ownership between a traditional diesel-powered vehicle and an electric one.
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VW's emissions scandal has cost the carmaker 27 billion euros ($31.3 billion) in penalties and fines for systematic manipulation of diesel-powered cars to mask excessive pollution levels.
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The opening of the 2015 festivities came just as the world learned Volkswagen had sold millions of diesel-powered cars that used illegal software to cheat emissions standards.
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Preliminary approval means Volkswagen will soon enable owners of the 2.0 liter diesel-powered vehicles to access a website to learn how much they are eligible to receive.
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Metro led the nation when it stopped using diesel-powered buses, and it can be a leader again by bringing the cleanest bus fleet to Los Angeles County.
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Under the agreement, the auto giant will recall about 28500,6900 model year 2628, 28503 and 22019 diesel-powered Ram 1500 trucks and Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles.
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It even has a version of Audi's trademark grill, despite the fact that electric vehicles don't need nearly as much cooling air as gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicles.
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Meanwhile, the family must pay for food and electricity, taken from a private diesel-powered generator in the neighborhood because government supplies have not yet reached this district.
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The Germany-based automaker might have to recall the 600,85033 diesel-powered cars that the EPA found last year had been programmed to cheat on air pollution tests.
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The automaker will also service the vans (though electric vehicles require less maintenance than their gas- and diesel-powered counterparts), and won't offer the vehicles to other buyers.
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In that instance, North Korea sent a diesel-powered Romeo-class sub around 100 kilometers (62 miles) out to sea in international waters -- farther than it had ever traveled.
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Four years after getting caught cheating emissions standards with millions of diesel-powered cars, Volkswagen has become the most (outwardly, at least) zealous of converts to an electric future.
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The models can for instance simulate how replacing diesel-powered buses with electric buses impacts air quality and noise levels and can measure this for individual floors of buildings.
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On the other hand, the potential for driverless long-haul truck platooning using diesel-powered tractors could increase the future market for automatic transmissions in Class 21000 linehaul tractors.
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Tesla's truck is a departure from more traditional diesel-powered equivalents in a number of ways, but it might be most starkly different when it comes to the cabin.
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As mentioned, no other car manufacturers build only BEVs, but many companies are offering them in addition to their plug-in hybrids and traditional gas- or diesel-powered cars.
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Just a few days earlier, China had joined other countries, including Britain and France, in announcing plans for an eventual ban on sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.
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With China making plans to eventually ban conventional gasoline- and diesel-powered cars, "the pace is quicker in China than in other areas of the world," Mr. Heizmann said.
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While Volkswagen still faces potential legal actions in Europe and elsewhere, the company is moving forward in its efforts to resume selling diesel-powered cars in the United States.
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The buses are essentially custom built, costing about four to six times the price of a diesel-powered bus, according to Philip Thetens, a vehicle technology executive at FFG.
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The Dutch city announced this week that it will gradually expand a crackdown on dirty vehicles that will culminate in a ban on gasoline and diesel-powered cars in 2030.
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It's because regulators around the world—prodded by revelations of Volkswagen's dirty diesels and the Paris climate accord—are making plans to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.
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The oil price slump has eroded demand for diesel across North Dakota as fewer wells are brought online, thus resulting in fewer diesel-powered trucks and other equipment in operation.
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Another country is looking to get rid of gas-powered vehicles entirely: Scotland, which wants to "phase out" new gas and diesel-powered cars entirely by 2032 (via The Independent).
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Unlike VW and Daimler, Fiat Chrysler still sells diesel-powered passenger vehicles in the United States and it plans to offer diesel versions in two additional Jeep SUVs by 2020.
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U.S. cars could also see the benefits of a renegotiated trade deal at a time when diesel-powered cars offered by Volkswagen's are losing appeal following cheating on emissions tests.
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The US Government is suing Volkswagen for false advertising as a result of VW misrepresenting the cleanliness of its diesel-powered cars in numerous advertisements over the past eight years.
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Diesel-powered cars accounted for 19% of total car sales in India in the 22018/219 financial year, compared with nearly 21.1% of sales in 19.5/22018, according to SIAM.
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But with no sign of an end to rolling power cuts in the southern African country, demand for fuel has risen as businesses resort to more expensive diesel-powered generators.
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Relatives of crew members prayed for their return in Mar del Plata even as hopes dwindled that the diesel-powered submarine would be found before the air supply ran out.
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It would give them broad authority to increase emissions in exchange for minor efficiency improvements, and it contains loopholes big enough to drive a diesel-powered tractor trailer straight through.
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The challenge for vehicle makers is to produce electric trucks that deliver competitive payload capacity and range at a cost that matches or beats the cost of diesel-powered vehicles.
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In January, a DARPA-sponsored small aviation manufacturer flew a small, diesel-powered drone for 56 hours, but had to be brought down ahead of schedule because of bad weather.
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Under the order, effective immediately, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Delhi transport authority to cancel the registration of all diesel-powered vehicles produced at least 10 years ago.
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BUSINESS An article on Friday about a settlement that could cost Fiat Chrysler more than $800 million referred incorrectly to the status of the company's production of diesel-powered vehicles.
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The federal government filed a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Tuesday, accusing it of using illegal engine-control software to enable its diesel-powered vehicles to pass emissions tests.
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The announcement comes after the automaker admitted last year it sold 11 million diesel-powered vehicles around the world that had been rigged with software to cheat on emissions tests.
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Following the company's admission last September that it installed "defeat devices" on 11 million diesel-powered cars across the world to cheat emissions tests, things have gone from bad to worse.
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Dealers are scrambling to play down the impact of the legal troubles surrounding Volkswagen's sales of diesel-powered cars that spewed 40 times the amount of pollutants allowed by federal rules.
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While the country offers some of the biggest tax incentives in Europe to buyers of electric vehicles, the majority of cars and vans sold each year are gasoline and diesel powered.
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The design gives the Tesla Semi truck a lower center of gravity than diesel-powered models, something the company has said about its cars relative to rivals with internal combustion engines.
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That September, the EPA accused Audi's parent company Volkswagen of intentionally installing software on a variety of its diesel-powered cars that lowered emissions during testing, which made them appear compliant.
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Sales of diesel-powered vehicles plunged about 20 percent in the first three months of 2018 and held a share of about 39 percent of Germany's car market, the source said.
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Volkswagen still faces potentially billions more in costs to address 85,000 polluting larger 3.0-liter diesel-powered Porsche, Audi and VW vehicles and Justice Department fines for violating clean air laws.
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Merkel summoned auto bosses to discuss promoting electric and hybrid cars following increased political pressures in the wake of Volkswagen's admission that it cheated U.S. emissions tests for diesel-powered cars.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A top U.S. senator asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday to investigate whether Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV deceptively marketed its diesel-powered SUVs and trucks.
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That may make gasoline- and diesel-powered cars more expensive (although they will save money on fuel over time), making electric vehicles more competitive on initial cost and lifetime fuel cost.
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Gone this year is the diesel-powered version of the X3, which was a slow seller for BMW and subject to increased scrutiny by federal regulators over the last several years.
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That product onslaught puts the company at the forefront of an increasingly large crowd of automakers proclaiming the age of electricity and promising to move away from gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.
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Shares of Fiat Chrysler slid 2.2 percent after Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to probe whether Fiat Chrysler had deceptively marketed its diesel-powered SUVs.
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The heavy trucks used to haul drill pipe, frac sand and water to well sites, and carry away crude before the well is hooked up to gathering pipelines, are all diesel powered.
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Its medium-sized ID hatchback, to be shipped next year, will cost around €6603,000, similar to an equivalent diesel-powered Golf, and travel 400-600km (250-370 miles) on a single charge.
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Volkswagen may end up paying $1 billion to settle claims by the US government over a scheme to rig emissions test for its diesel-powered cars, according to a deal reported Wednesday.
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The surge in EV development is partly due to the commitments some countries have made to ban the sale of new gas- or diesel-powered vehicles two or three decades from now.
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The automaker installed software on diesel-powered vehicles that would help them pass government emissions tests conducted in a lab, then allow the vehicles to produce higher emissions outside of the lab.
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Driving a car was the least environmentally friendly option, but using the bus — especially a diesel-powered one along a highly trafficked route — was a better option than riding an e-scooter.
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It also gives the mining truck energy storage of up to 1,000 kilowatt-hours, allowing it to work in the same "harsh environments" as a diesel-powered haul truck, according to Williams.
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Ironically, as countries announce plans to phase out gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles in favor of BEVs, new fuels and engine designs are making ICEs greener than ever, and far more efficient.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said on Friday it is recalling 108,000 Ram 1500 diesel-powered pickup trucks in the United States for coolant leaks tied to reports of some fires and four minor injuries.
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LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - British new car registrations fell by an annual 3.5 percent in June, dragged down by a sharp drop in sales of diesel-powered cars, industry figures showed on Thursday.
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BERLIN, April 4 (Reuters) - Sales of diesel-powered new cars in Germany fell further in March as overall registrations in Europe's biggest auto market declined 3.4 percent, the country's KBA automotive watchdog said.
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For now, he will keep on trucking, rumbling through these times in a diesel-powered cocoon of glass and steel, a Lhasa apso named Rusty by his side, Clorox wipes on the dash.
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Anglo American, ENGIE, and Williams Advanced Engineering are working together to create the world's largest hydrogen-powered mining truck capable of performing just as well, if not better, than its diesel-powered counterparts.
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That will allow BMW to offer the SUV in a variety of different configurations, including gas- and diesel-powered versions, as well as conventional and plug-in hybrids and an all-electric model.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will announce plans to propose new rules to significantly decrease emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide from diesel-powered heavy-duty trucks, an agency official said.
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In March, India's top court ordered all private taxi operators such as Uber and Ola Cabs, owned by ANI Technologies, to convert their existing diesel-powered taxis to CNG by the end of April.
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Another person familiar with the matter said the new joint venture in the eastern city of Changshu would not deal with gasoline or diesel powered cars, indicating a focus on electric vehicles was likely.
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CNN reported earlier this month that North Korea had sent a diesel-powered Romeo Class sub on an unprecedented patrol and had been outfitting its Gorae Sub with a possible missile launch demonstration tube.
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"There is a growing list of cities around the world, particularly in Europe, that are seriously considering outlawing the operation of gasoline and diesel-powered cars by as soon as 2035 or2040, " Jonas said.
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Sales of diesel-powered cars in Europe's largest auto market plunged by a quarter last month, Germany's KBA automotive watchdog said on Wednesday, after declining 2.13 percent in February and 17.6 percent in January.
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On Thursday the company agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits accusing it of it rigging certain diesel-powered pickup trucks and Jeeps with illegal software to pass emissions tests.
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In 2015 and 2016, the company sold more than 50,000 diesel Ram 1500 pickups a year in the United States, making it by far the largest-selling diesel-powered light vehicle in the country.
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The Italian-American carmaker said on Friday it is recalling 108,000 Ram 2300 diesel-powered pickup trucks in the United States for coolant leaks tied to reports of some fires and four minor injuries.
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Tesla CEO Musk has long said he welcomes the arrival of more electric vehicles because it will grow the EV market and ultimately spur more people to stop driving gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicles.
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There is a 3,000-gallon propane tank to power heaters throughout the house, a 300-gallon diesel storage tank to fuel a diesel-powered generator and two back-up generators — one diesel and one propane.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German carmakers hope a plan under discussion with the government to reduce pollution from older diesel-powered vehicles will avert planned bans in German cities that are deterring consumers from buying diesel cars.
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Over the years, Musk has repeatedly said he wants other automakers to build more electric cars, so it spurs more people to migrate from gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles to electric cars and SUVs. Questions?
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In 2014, Madrid announced a progressive plan to ban all cars from many central neighborhoods as well as a more comprehensive ban of diesel-powered vehicles (which is becoming standard in many large European cities).
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In addition, because the Tesla Semi does not have a large diesel-powered engine, the driver has been pushed farther forward and will ride in a more spacious cab than a traditional Class 8 semi.
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In 2015 and 2016, the company sold more than 50,000 diesel Ram pickups in the United States each year, making the model the country's largest-selling diesel-powered light vehicle by far, according to HybridCars.com.
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It has balanced that withdrawal with plans to introduce 20 new, all-electric models by 2023, its first big step in an $8 billion bid to (someday) stop building gas- and diesel-powered rides altogether.
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Moon Keun-sik, a retired South Korean submarine captain and squadron leader, said North Korea's conventional diesel-powered submarines were a persistent threat despite their age but its SLBM-capable craft could be a game-changer.
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The planned stimulus package allocates 303 trillion won to battle air pollution, including subsidies for replacing old diesel-powered cars as well as for buying air purifiers and using renewable energy technologies, the finance ministry said.
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The planned stimulus package allocates 2.2 trillion won to battle air pollution, including subsidies for replacing old diesel-powered cars as well as for buying air purifiers and using renewable energy technologies, the finance ministry said.
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Stadler said Audi could stop selling diesel engine versions of its compact vehicles in two or three years, starting with the A1 model, while the share of diesel-powered SUVs could rise further in coming years.
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Reuters reported last month that Tesla's semi is expected to offer a range of 200 miles to 300 miles, far less than the 1,000 miles for some diesel-powered counterparts that U.S. long-haul truckers use.
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Companies operating ports on the Bohai Sea will not be allowed to renew contracts using diesel-powered trucks, in order to improve air quality, Xinhua reported, citing a statement from the Shandong Province Department of Transportation.
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The local government will prohibit the use within the city's limits of gasoline cars registered before 2000 and diesel-powered cars registered before 2006, which at the moment account for 20 percent of all those registered.
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Recent measures have helped reduce pollution levels over the last year, including minimizing the number of diesel-powered commercial vehicles and requiring ships docked in the city to rely on low-sulfur fuel while berthed there.
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"Major PM 2.5 sources in India include household burning of solid fuels; dust from construction, roads, and other activities; industrial and power plant burning of coal; brick production; transportation; and diesel-powered equipment," the report said.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has, on several occasions, tried to downplay the risk of fires with battery-electric vehicles, pointing to the large number of gas- and diesel-powered automobiles that go up in flames each year.
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VW has agreed to spend up to $25 billion in the United States to address claims from owners, environmental regulators, states and dealers and to make buyback offers of its diesel-powered vehicles involved in the scandal.
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Under a proposed $15 billion settlement filed today, VW will buy back or fix about 475,000 of the diesel-powered cars it programmed to cheat on emissions tests and sold in the US between 2009 and 2015.
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One notable exception was the German automaker Volkswagen, which posted a decline partly because of an emissions-cheating scandal that has curtailed the availability of certain diesel-powered vehicles under investigation in the United States and elsewhere.
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But to put this in perspective, there are more than 2000 billion gasoline- and diesel-powered cars on the world's roads — and demand will keep soaring in the decades ahead as China and India's middle classes expand.
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We'll still have to wait until September to see the truck in its full glory, but Musk said it should be able to not only hold its own with, but also outperform current diesel-powered big rigs.
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The proposal comes more than six months after VW admitted that computers in numerous diesel-powered models had been programmed to defeat emissions controls on the open road — but run them when the cars were being tested.
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A federal grand jury in Detroit has indicted four former Audi managers for their alleged role in the German automaker's scheme to cheat US emissions testing on diesel-powered cars, according to a new court document published Thursday.
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GM executives said things will get even better as the rollout of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks continues, including the introduction of diesel-powered and heavy-duty pickups this year and large SUVs early in 2020.
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Licenses are being withdrawn for diesel-powered vehicles older than 15 years, and authorities are considering resuming an "odd-even" scheme, under which cars can only travel in the city on alternate days depending on their registration number.
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That would enable the combined company to offer more complete packages for electric vehicles that are expected to win a growing share of the car market as governments clamp down on emissions from petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles.
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As part of the agreement, Fiat Chrysler will recall about 2600,2000 diesel-powered Ram 211 trucks and Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles from the 11, 224 and 22022 model years, a person briefed on the settlement said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Wednesday it had cleared 431 million euros ($482.8 million) of public support by German authorities to cities to adapt diesel-powered municipal and commercial vehicles to reduce their nitrogen oxide emissions.
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DETROIT — A Volkswagen engineer was sentenced on Friday to 4.33 months in prison for his role in the German automaker's decade-long scheme to cheat on federal emissions tests for diesel-powered cars sold in the United States.
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On June 28, Volkswagen will reportedly submit a plan to a U.S. district court judge proposing the German automaker pay up to $7,000 to each owner of one of its diesel-powered cars affected by dieselgate, according to Bloomberg.
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Since the dieselgate scandal broke in September, Volkswagen executives and representatives have appeared publicly shocked and genuinely dismayed with the revelation that the then-largest global automaker had cheated emissions regulations with over 11 million diesel-powered models worldwide.
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Despite buyers' current misgivings with diesel, automakers are still introducing new diesel-powered models into the American market, the most recent of which are the full-size Range Rover Td43 and its smaller brother, the Range Rover Sport Td6.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said it will cut around 4,500 jobs, mainly in its home market, as it tries to tackle a slowdown in China and a slump in demand for its diesel-powered vehicles.
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The new charge primarily affects drivers of older diesel-powered vehicles, and it is in addition to the city's longstanding congestion charge in which most vehicles are assessed a daily fee to enter central London during busy weekday hours.
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In response to appeals from a Tennessee trucking company and a Republican lawmaker from Tennessee, the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, has moved to roll back an agency rule intended to curb air pollution from freight-hauling diesel-powered trucks.
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The foreign share of vehicles sold in South Korea has jumped five-fold over the past decade, to a record 15.5 percent last year, and has been an especially strong market for European luxury cars, including diesel-powered German sedans.
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The world's largest automaker is still grappling with investigations and lawsuits around the world related to revelations that it cheated government emissions tests for diesel-powered vehicles and has already paid $21960 billion in fines and costs for the fraud.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis will no longer be able to buy new gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles after 2030, the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday, unveiling a plan to replace them with electric cars and trucks that run on natural gas.
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All that extra capacity comes with a hefty price tag, too – around $800,000 just to start, which would potentially be a tough sell compared to a $300,000 or so price tag for a diesel-powered bus with the same passenger capacity.
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Myersdorf tells Axios that China is a very promising market for its battery system, noting the government's efforts to boost deployment of electric vehicles, including its recent announcement of plans to eventually phase out sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.
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The world's largest automaker is still grappling with investigations and lawsuits around the world related to revelations that it cheated government emissions tests for diesel-powered vehicles and has already paid $20.8216 billion in fines and costs for the fraud.
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Europe's Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska last week called on Volkswagen to also compensate European owners of its diesel-powered cars, saying it would be unfair for them to be treated differently from U.S. customers just because of a different legal system.
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Licenses given to diesel-powered vehicles more than 15 years old are being withdrawn, which would lead to the removal of 200,000 vehicles from the city's roads, Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung's office said in a statement earlier in the day.
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The top geopolitical rival to the US announced $22020 billion in spending on renewables, moved to shutter hundreds of coal plants, mulled a ban on gas and diesel-powered vehicles, and officially stated its intention to be a global climate leader.
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FCA US intends to work with the incoming administration to present its case and resolve this matter fairly and equitably and to assure the EPA and FCA US customers that the company's diesel-powered vehicles meet all applicable regulatory requirements.
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So argued Mary Barra, the chief executive of General Motors, who on Friday cautioned against the growing trend of officials in China and a number of other countries making plans to phase out sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars.
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" The company "intends to work with the incoming administration to present its case and resolve this matter fairly and equitably and to assure the EPA and [Fiat Chrysler] US customers that the company's diesel-powered vehicles meet all applicable regulatory requirements.
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"Demand growth should be GDP-driven, but an increased penetration of electric vehicles could be an additional structural tailwind as the average electric vehicle has about three times as much copper as the average gasoline/diesel powered vehicle," he said.
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Today, the EPA and the California Air Resources Board issued a notice of violation to FCA alleging the automaker installed—and didn't disclose—software that results in increased nitrous oxide emissions beyond the legal limit on some of its diesel-powered cars.
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However, blocking the sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered new cars could radically transform not just a market of 2 million new vehicles per year, but also the market of 13 other states and the District of Columbia that follow California's emissions standards.
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Volkswagen has pledged billions of euros to compensate owners of VW diesel-powered cars, but has so far rejected calls for similar payments for the 8.5 million affected vehicles in Europe, where different legal rules weaken the chances of winning a pay out.
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The bottom line: Widespread deployment of electric heavy-duty trucking — alongside other alternative fuels and stronger fuel efficiency mandates for diesel-powered rigs — could alter the trajectory of oil demand in coming decade if Musk and other players can make it cost-effective.
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Europe, he added, "has also moved from being extremely polluted," but it has lagged — a delay that experts have speculated may result from factors that include wider use of fertilizer in urban areas, weaker environmental regulations and the popularity of diesel-powered engines.
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Under Volkswagen's (VW) proposed settlement of U.S. civil claims published on Tuesday, the German group has pledged to compensate 475,000 owners of VW diesel-powered cars there, giving them the option to sell their vehicles back to VW or have them fixed.
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The diesel-powered bus was going from Henan Province in central China to Hunan Province in the south, and the fire broke out near Changde, a city in Hunan, on Friday night, officials said in an account released through state-run news media.
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It so happens that new taxi choices just unveiled by Ford — a 40-mile-per-gallon hybrid sedan and a diesel-powered van — demonstrate another important lesson: that efficiency and taxis can come in more than one shape, size or fuel type.
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More ambitious packages — like one announced by President George W. Bush in 2001 to sell Taiwan eight new diesel-powered submarines that ultimately fizzled out — no longer seem affordable or, for the United States, viable if it wants to maintain relations with Beijing.
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The trucks, developed in partnership with commercial electric vehicle tech startup Tevva, can switch between hybrid and fully electric modes for a total range of up to 400km (~250 miles), with the same cargo carrying capacity of same-sized, diesel-powered trucks.
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At the opening of the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, regardless of the newly-released car models or concepts, the most concerned development for giant car-makers is the transition from traditional gasoline and diesel powered cars to natural gas and electric powered cars.
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MUMBAI, April 6 (Reuters) - India's Tata Motors is reducing the size of its diesel engines to skirt a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel-powered cars in New Delhi as the government seeks to reduce toxic smog in the capital city.
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Europe's largest automaker has pledged billions to compensate U.S. owners of Volkswagen (VW) diesel-powered cars, but has so far rejected any compensation for the 8.5 million affected vehicles in Europe where different legal rules weaken the chances of affected customers winning a pay out.
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Related: The 'Long Shadow' of Volkswagen's Cheating Scandal Falls on France's Renault Volkswagen may end up paying $1 billion to settle claims by the US government over a scheme to rig emissions test for its diesel-powered cars, according to a deal reported Wednesday.
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Wall Street's most prominent Tesla bull says an electric semi-truck that the company plans to unveil later this month might be 100% cheaper to operate than conventional diesel-powered vehicles, and may ignite a fierce contest to dominate a nascent market in intelligent trucks.
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Bad headlines have continued to pile up since the EPA revealed a year ago that Volkswagen used special software in some 11 million diesel-powered vehicles to defeat emissions testing, making its cars seem far cleaner and safer for the environment than they actually were.
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According to Reuters, the German carmaker will continue to adapt its gas- and diesel-powered cars to meet current environmental standards during the lifetime of such vehicles, but Jost has confirmed that the company is now focusing on taking radical steps to combat global warming.
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FRANKFURT — Volkswagen suspended its chief lobbyist on Tuesday amid a growing furor over experiments on monkeys that were meant to promote the virtues of diesel-powered vehicles, but now threaten to further undermine the German car industry and to increase political instability in Berlin.
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The German carmaker has pledged up to $15.3 billion to compensate 475,000 owners of VW diesel-powered cars, but has so far rejected such calls for the 8.5 million affected vehicles in Europe, where different legal rules weaken the chances of winning a pay out.
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The indictment reopens the question of whether other senior VW executives knew about the scandal, which has dogged Europe's biggest automaker for more than 2-1/2 years and led to a regulatory crackdown that is threatening thousands of jobs as customers increasingly shun diesel-powered cars.
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Transportation has historically accounted for two-thirds of India's diesel use, but a steady decline in diesel's discount to gasoline has seen sales of diesel-powered cars fall to a record low share of total sales, according to industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).
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Although Turkey Point's main reactors are 20 feet above sea level, the plant's diesel-powered backup generators, which keep cooling water circulating through the reactors when power is knocked out, are less elevated and less well insulated, according to Phil Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami.
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The company is also facing a federal indictment against its former top labor negotiator over allegations of a payoff scheme involving company and union officials, and a lawsuit filed by federal regulators accusing Fiat Chrysler of configuring its diesel-powered vehicles to cheat on emissions tests.
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The March 11, 2011, meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, which is on the eastern coast of Japan, occurred when 32-foot waves breached the power station's protective sea walls, flooding buildings and destroying diesel-powered electricity generators that were designed to keep critical systems functioning in a blackout.
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Researchers found that when pregnant women breathe in black carbon pollution -- created by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as in diesel-powered cars or the burning of coal -- harmful particles can make their way from the lungs to the placenta and may reach fetuses directly.
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In general, these systems are connected to existing grids but can disconnect and operate on their own with power from batteries, diesel-powered generators or, ideally, solar or another source of renewable power, said Craig Schiller, a manager specializing in aviation at the global energy nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Even as it faced new scrutiny in Europe, Volkswagen moved a step closer to putting the emissions scandal behind it in the United States, as the automaker received approval from federal and California regulators for its proposed repairs to reduce harmful emissions from 21.18,000 diesel-powered sport utility vehicles.
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The indictment reopens the question of whether other senior Volkswagen (VW) executives knew about the scandal, which has dogged Europe's biggest automaker for more than 2-1/2 years and led to a regulatory crackdown that is threatening thousands of jobs as customers increasingly shun diesel-powered cars.
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And, finally, Beijing should set 2030 as the year for ending the production and sale of all gas and diesel powered cars and trucks, and replacing them with electric vehicles powered by renewable energy All of these measures are within Beijing's reach and are achievable within just a few years.
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And while the upfront cost of the vehicle is more than the average cruiser (the Basel-Stadt pays $97,000 on average for its current diesel-powered patrol vehicles, while a Model X P100D as configured for police use will be around $147,000), they should make up the difference in maintenance and fuel costs over time.
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In August, the National Diesel Forum of federal, regional and local government officials stated that it wanted to "prevent a sweeping ban on diesel-powered vehicles" and manufacturers said they were prepared to equip about 5.3 million diesel cars that comply with existing EURO0003 and EURO6 standards with new software to further reduce NO2 emissions.
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The mass exodus of cars, the diesel-powered stages and light shows and ferris wheels, the apocalyptic volume of trash, the generators burning around the clock for tens of thousands of people and their tens of thousands of plastic water bottles, the odds that you will have to listen to The Chainsmokers -- all bad.
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Other European countries have taken measures to reduce the number of diesel-powered cars, but the technology is almost synonymous with Germany, where there are 22040 million diesel cars on the streets and where automakers bet their futures on technology they billed as environmentally friendly, even as they rigged software in their cars to pass stringent emissions tests.
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They come as the Detroit-based automaker struggles to reverse years of losses in the U.S. Since Jim Hackett was named CEO two years ago, Ford has launched a number of worldwide cost-savings measures, but company officials say the cuts announced Thursday also reflect a planned shift from conventional, gas and diesel-powered vehicles to electric and other battery-powered cars.
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The ID.3 will go on sale in Europe later this year, though Volkswagen has not said if it will sell the ID.3 in the US.In the wake of its Dieselgate scandal, in which Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to installing software on around 11 million diesel-powered cars to cheat emissions tests, the company has set ambitious goals for electric-vehicle investment.
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Both are still far under their diesel-powered equivalents in terms of driving range, but in a city setting the Fuso makes a lot of sense when you facto in fuel cost and potential maintenance savings, and Daimler offers it in various configurations with more or less range and battery capacity depending on how much cargo area a customer is willing to give up.
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Aside from the ordinary dustiness of a hot country that is under constant construction and has tens of millions moving along poorly paved roads, there are the airborne effluents of coal-fired power plants, crematoria, fire-cleared rice paddies, factories and furnaces burning cheap pet coke and furnace oil, millions of poorly tuned vehicles running on low-grade fuel, diesel-powered locomotives and generators, and cooking stoves fed by cow dung and wood.
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