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Audi survey finds more than half of US drivers would support government initiative to spur diesel vehicle sales

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The study was conducted in September 2013 among 2,041 US adults, among whom 1,629 identified themselves as regular drivers, driving their own personal vehicle at least once a once week or more often. Audi believes there are a variety of viable alternative fuel solutions, including electric, but diesel is readily available today.

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HK Motors, American Public Gas Association and NGVAmerica to Collaborate to Promote Natural Gas Hybrids

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Start-up HK Motors plans to begin producing a family of light-duty natural gas hybrid-electric passenger vehicles at its plant in Alabama beginning in 2013. Natural gas hybrids will use similar electric-drive technology to gasoline-powered hybrid vehicles available today, only natural gas will be the power source rather than gasoline.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Volume 1 of the library, available now, includes: Improved fundamental models for C 0 to C 4 hydrocarbons, enabling accurate prediction of flame propagation, auto-ignition and emissions. Gasoline components, including toluene, propylbenzene, ethyl benzene and xylene. Additive components such as ETBE. Soot pre-cursor PAH mechanisms.

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Researchers develop four-step catalytic process to produce petroleum refinery feedstocks from biomass sugars

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However, gasoline, diesel and jet engines are manufactured to be used with petroleum-derived fuels that are mixtures of compounds having a range of boiling point fractions, combustion properties, and physical properties. Furthermore, most of the previous processes produce renewable fuels that can only be used in gasoline engines.

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