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Chrysler Group is offering fuel-saving Engine Stop-Start (ESS) technology as standard equipment on certain models of the award-winning 2015 Jeep Cherokee mid-size SUV and 2015 Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan. liter Tigershark comes standard in the all-new 2015 Chrysler 200. Chrysler 200 customers who opt for the 2.4-liter
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liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. The engineers integrated the oil and vacuum pump in one module; it is designed as a compact dual pump. Exhaust gas aftertreatment module close to engine.
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The concept design is ready for the owners’ preferred choice, whether that it is to run on heavy fuel oil using emission treatment systems or to switch to low sulphur fuels or LNG. tonnes (about 4,700 gallons US heavy fuel oil), and daily fuel consumption at 10 kn slow-steaming of 6.4 —Hu Jin-Tao, the president of SDARI.
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The TCD 2015 engine series is now approved for use with 100% biodiesel. The extensive testing prior to approval being issued was sponsored by the UFOP (the German Union for the Promotion of Oil Seed and Protein Plants). This also applies to engines which are allowed to use tax-privileged heating oil.
Colorado is the 2015 Motor Trend Truck of the Year and Cars.com’s Best Pickup Truck of 2015.) Oiling circuit that includes a dedicated feed for the turbocharger to provide increased pressure at the turbo and faster oil delivery. Piston-cooling oil jets. l/100 km) highway with 2.5L 1 compression ratio.
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